Event 3

For event number 3, I, and a few of my teammates, attended the Hammer Museum in Westwood. Going into the museum visit, I wasn't really sure what to expect, not knowing too much about the background of content inside. Once getting there, we learned that it was a museum with lots of artwork, arraying from pictures to paintings to drawings and mixes of the three. In the first gallery we walked through, we see a lot of paintings that were intriguing in their own ways. As you can see in the picture below, you see that the painting give off a sense of randomness, or don't have much artistic value behind them, but the closer you look you can notice how much each detail means. Looking at them closely, I noticed that each picture had little points that would change the dynamic of the picture if it weren't there. This reminded me of the nanotechnology lesson that we had just learned about because of how important little details really are to us. In the picture on the right, you can also see how if one little detail was missed or skipped over while creating the first part of the portrait, it would mess up the rest of the drawing as you moved on throughout the progression of the painting, again showing the importance of the little details.


We next saw this gallery that contained drawings that were mixed with arcade game pieces. They were really intriguing to see how detailed each piece was while mixing the two ideas together. In the one below that I am standing with, I really enjoy the placement of the arcade game features on the picture in order to keep the image realistic. In the other picture below, it also had to realistic looking tears from the game pieces, but I also like the symmetry with the two sides of the image. This really seemed to bring out each detail because each side reflected each other. 
As I look at my visit to the Hammer Museum, I noticed a couple of things that we had covered over the course of the quarter that showed up during my visit. First, the idea of nanotechnology and how small things and little details we may not find important truly are what make the difference in painting and pictures. If people were careless about little details in their work, it wouldn't be as good and would be much different. Lastly, I noticed the combination of technology and art. In the mixtures of arcade games and drawings, it was interesting to see the mix of old technology games and new pictures to create artwork. I feel that we have come along way in our art and our technology in order to use them together to create masterpieces, and that is what was shown here at the Hammer Museum.

- Kyle Mora

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