Getty Museum The Getty Museum is a museum of art. When first experiencing this wonderful museum I noticed many aspects that tied in with our course material with how art can be intermixed with many subjects like technology even on accident. This is experienced with the strategic lighting of the exhibits and the three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain funicular . The Getty Center is located in Los Angeles and has only been open to the public for 20 years. J. Paul Getty originally opened the museum as just an expanse off his house, but later expanded further. "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor." -J. Paul Getty The Getty Museum is also a good representation of the "Two Cultures" we learned about way back at the beginning. Professor Vesna mentioned how it is actually becuase of modern times that the two cultures, art and science, have been separated. This seperation started "around the
Space and Art I first read the intro quote by Benoit Mandelbro, "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line" and my immediate thoughts were in agreeance that not many things in this world take perfect shape and that many things are unique. This quote is a good beginning for thinking about space and art ideas intersecting. Space is not perfect and there are trillions of things we still do not know. Space is the unknown just like art. Art takes the form of many different shapes and sizes and we aren't sure what will happen next. A man named, Jeff Foust, wrote an article, "When space and Art Intersect", that agreed that art in its many diverse forms can "provide an emotional connection difficult to duplicate elsewhere." In other words, art can help people better understand space and its relative size and perspectives. This is why our last week's ma