LACMA !!!!!!!

Ok so i arrived at LACMA and i got in for free which was pretty cool. i got in for free because i had a Bank of America account. i guess you get in the first weekend of the month if you have an account. I had never been there before so i didn't know what to expect. The first building we went into was the 5th building, this building was huge and i didn't really know where to go. This museum was completely different than the Norton Simon museum. At Norton you kinda know where to go but not here. Well i found a room and there was some really nice stuff. I noticed that the guards here were really different from the Norton museum as well. At LACMA there was one security for one giant section of the museum, and as for Norton they had a security for every 5 ft of the museum. So here i felt a little more comfortable to roam around and do my thing.

Later on in my adventure i found myself in the Japanese art building. This building is incredible. I mean even the building itself was a work of art. i really liked how they made the building look as if the wall were those doors that people change behind of.

All the art inside was interesting. To tell you the truth i didn't really like anything on the way up the building until i got to the top. When i reached the upper level of the building i found paintings that had great detail and emotion in them. For example on one of them there was a group of people crossing a bridge. They weren't only crossing the bridge but they were fighting wind and rain. They were going against the rain rather than with it. I think the artist was saying that their people fight for their path. They fight for where they're going and what they have. Something else that really caught my eye were a pair of  Guardian Animals. These two sculptures were carved from wood. They are believed to protect the surrounding areas from harm and evil. The one on the left is based off a lion and is saying the first letter of the sanskrit alphabet ah, and the one on the right is based of a dog and is saying the last letter of the sanskrit alphabet un. Because of this it is believed that the entire universe is held between these two guardian animals and they will protect it. One on each end, the beginning and the end.

Next Building we went into was one with American art in it. The first couple of floors were closed so we couldn't see what was on those floors so we went to the third floor and there is were we found some incredible  art. The art there was much like the art in the Norton museum. lots of paintings of women, not so much nakedness though but a lot of paintings of the human body. One of them that i found interesting was the one titled  manly pursuits by Thomas Eakins.

 I find this painting very interesting because we don't see the faces of the wrestlers but yet we can see that they are fatigued to the limit. you can only imagine how long they have been training  or wrestling. It seems as if these two men are extremely exhausted and have given it their all. We usually get all that information from the face of the character but here there is no face to analyze and we are still able to get that from the body language of the characters.  

This entire experience was one for the books. It was extremely fun, and I'm planning on going back pretty soon and doing it all again but this time with more time to spare.

C YA