LACMA was a success!

I had an awesome day driving around through East LA trying to find my way to LACMA. Once we got there and found parking, the fun really started. For starters we saw the La Brea Tar Pits and marveled at the bubbling up and the tarry smell. In LACMA, we perused quickly through Korean Art – we were looking for the good stuff, AKA Art of the Ancient world. There we marveled at stuff over 6000 years old, cuneiform tablets, stamps, and detailed relief carvings. We looked through some early renaissance stuff, noting how they did not yet perfect perspective and fore-shortening. We then looked at Islamic art, the Five Car Stud installation (creepy doesn’t even begin to explain it), some Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and other Latin American artists. Later we quickly saw some early meso-American art. We were already super tired by this time. We picked up some really neat solid graphite pencils from the gift shop, and looked at the tar pits more before we had to leave. We missed out on Modern Art and Japanese Art. There’s always next time!

Best moment: When me and David were looking at Abraham van Beyeren’s Banquet Still Life, I mentioned how it symbolized death because the fruits were eaten in the still life, and how it was a reaction to previous still life paintings, and a bunch of other boring stuff I learned in Art History. A dude BURST into the conversation and said it wasn’t a still life because it had a mouse in it. Long Story Short: