EVENT 2 BLOG

Event 2

LACMA

The security guard and I
from LACMA.

     I never truly realized how many museums there are in LA. LACMA, short for Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a fairly large museum with plenty for people to see and experience. What I really liked about LACMA is they really tried to include everyone and give everyone a chance to experience the art. They do this by having a few sculptures outside of the museum so that those who can't afford to go inside can still see some art. 

Behind me is the lamppost artwork.

     One of my favorite things on the outside of the museum was the famous lamppost art. There is a symmetric shape to the artwork with the lamppost starting small on the outside and getting taller in the middle then proceeding to get smaller on the outside once again (if you planted the lamppost on a graph you could even say it's unimodal). We can clearly see math in the structure of the lampposts and the way they were arranged. Also, when you look at it from different directions you get to see different dimensions of them.

You can see the different shapes in
the artwork.

     Once inside of the museum there is a large variety of artwork ranging from paintings to sculptures to other extravagant things that you can find. I came across another piece of artwork that embedded mathematics into it. The entire piece of artwork is made using geometry and shapes. We can see a moon shape, a triangle, an oval, and many other pieces coming together to form the art piece and create a creature that looks like a snake. When we learned about mathematics in art in week two, we researched some of the art on ART+COM. Many of the pieces from ART+COM used different shapes in different positions to create a sculpture.