LACMA

I went to the LACMA with my good friend Mary. I think it is possibly the coolest museum I have been to so far, but the Hammer is a close second mostly because of the spinning chairs. One of my favorite things was seeing some of the impressionist paintings by artists that I had seen in the Getty, like Degas and the Dancers and Monet. But, I also liked all the different and non-traditional artwork as well.

One of my favorites is an abstract piece by Frantisek Kupka titled Creation. 

I loved all the colors and shading to give form to objects and shapes that are unidentifiable. It was fascinating to learn that he was one of the first painters to paint nonobjective images. It was also intriguing to learn that his paintings, but this one especially, was meant to express the spiritual and the cosmic. After learning this, it made me think of how space and art are connected in this painting, and the forms that Kupka created slightly resembled star clouds of dust and particles that are formed during star formation.

I also liked the abstract and modern art by Jacques Villon because of the fun colors. His painting titled Portrait of Mlle was fascinating to me because it hardly resembles a person.

Some other of my favorite paintings were the fun colors on huge canvases. I loved how big they were and how they could capture your attention even though the paint was relatively simple.

There were also some fun pieces of art, like the giant pool balls and the hanging rubbery yellow strands that reminded me of drying spaghetti.

When we left the museum, Mary and I took some fun pictures in front of the lights because we were trying to be #fun #trendy #la #basic.