(Extra Credit)Event 4: Hammer Museum

My fourth event was going to the Hammer Museum! This was the first wall painting that caught my eyes when I entered the lobby.

It's an amazing artwork but what really drove me to Hammer Museum was the Monograph exhibition presented by James Welling.

James Welling was born in Connecticut but earned a BFA degree in California institute of Arts. He is a postmodern artist who has helped refine our definition of a photograph while offering a meaningful new paradigm for contemporary art. Before I saw this exhibition, I know nothing about monograph, so I did a research online. Monograph was a specialist work on a specific subject or an aspect of a subject, which I understood fully after seeing James Welling's work.

http://jameswelling.net/categories/4

First, let's see these two picture. On both picture, there was only one subject on each picture---the house and the railroad. The simple color Black and White decreased our focus on color of photograph but kept our eyes on the subject itself. James Welling pictured our city in the way they supposed to be, which disclosure the original shape of the city that we live and the sense of history behind the house and the railroad. When I saw these picture in black and white, I felt I was going back to those past decades. These photography work are simple but beautiful, and James Welling is definitely contributing a lot to both art and to the society that we live. I would recommend my friends to come and see this exhibition in Hammer Museum, and also don't forget to take a look at the book store.

Look what I found here, a very interesting book called Ink Art, which talked about the painting style in China!

Citations:

"Hammer Museum." Web. 4 December 2013. <http://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/museums-institutions/hammer-museum>.

 "James Welling." Web. 5 December 2013. <http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/241>.

 "Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible." The Menil Collection. Web. 5 December 2013. <https://www.menil.org/exhibitions/ForrestBessSeeingThingsInvisible.php>.

 "Forrest Bess." Hammer Museum. Web. 5 December 2013. <http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/242>.

 Vesna, Victoria. “Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between.” Leonardo 34.2 (2001): 121-25. Web. 22 November 2013.