Los Angeles County Museum of Art

par. 1). Although Route 66 is no longer an important thoroughfare for cars travelling from Chicago to Los Angeles, it continues to be a road trip many people long to experience. As Payne and Hurt put it, “Route 66 is a destination in itself—the

femme au voile bleu),  Pablo Picasso appropriated different aspects of classical Greek art and borrowed various elements from Greco-roman pieces like Grave Naiskos of a Seated Woman with Two Standing Women. Woman in the Blue Veil was most likely inspired by Greco-roman artifacts like Grave Naiskos of a Seated Woman with Two Standing Women. According to the didactic panel of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in the Picasso and Rivera exhibit “Woman in the Blue Veil was painted near the end of

stroll around Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for the afternoon. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of people who are there for the express purpose of viewing, and hopefully, appreciating art. I have been to LACMA countless times, starting from the time that I was a very young girl, but never before had I gone with a specific assignment to complete - to view LACMA’s collection of Renaissance art in order to compare and contrast pieces in their exhibit to the works of art that we have

Syrian Warrior God The Syrian Warrior God is on display in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Hammer Building as a part of the “Art of the Ancient Near East” collection– a collection consisting of over two thousand objects spanning over four thousand years. Artifacts from all over the ancient Near East can be seen in the various, well lit, galleries of LACMA. With simple cream-colored walls, the stone reliefs, pottery, vessels, and sculptures, all clearly stand out behind their protective casings

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is among the world’s largest art collections, and to be specific enough the most prevalent artwork in the western United States (Compton 165). This massive art museum has a collection of over a hundred thousand artworks, whose origin extends from the prehistoric times to present days (Gilbert and Mills 174). These collections are classified into several departments within the museums buildings, depending on their region of origin, culture they represent, and

Kehinde Wiley’s large-scale, brightly colored, highly patterned portraits of African American subjects are a salute to traditional portraiture as well as a critique of the art historical focus on the privileged male Caucasian. The artist scouts out ordinary black men of ages 18 to 25 from urban settings to copy poses from works by master Western painters like Titian and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The photographs of their poses become Wiley’s references for his enormous, dazzlingly vibrant portraits

Lowbrow Art Lowbrow art is a unique art movement that emerged in the 1970s in the shady corners of Los Angeles, California. Lowbrow art has many labels such as underground, Neo-pop, and Nobrow. Also known as pop surrealism, lowbrow art, was inspired by surf culture, punk music, underground comix, and most importantly, cartoon and comics. Lowbrow art is a movement for the millions of people who share a common culture. The movement has steadily grown since the 1970s and isn’t going anywhere soon.

I visited Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the exhibition named “Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906-1925” which highlighted in abstraction in German Expressionism. The exhibition was composed of over 60 works including works by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Erich Heckel, Otto Dix, and an abstract film by Hans Richter. Among the many works on view, one of the Paul Klee’s prints titled Hoffmannesque Scene caught my eye. Hoffmannesque

The Big Boat Going to the LACMA art museum was a very good experience to see many different types of artwork by different artists. In 1920 Robert Michel created a painting named “Ship”, which it contained many visual elements such as cool and warm colors curvilinear geometric figures. First of all, Michel shows the viewer a lot of curvilinear lines meaning a consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line, or a along a curved line of a set of coordinates determined by or determining

Located in the middle of wine country, a halfway distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco, this town is one of the main places to visit in San Luis Obispo County. 10. Mission Plaza The Mission Plaza is the best place to start your journey into the city. This is where many events, concerts, festivals, and community meetings are held. The Taste of San Luis happens every year during the summertime where food from all over the county are sold and tasted here. There is a creek connected to the Mission