The Hammer Museum
Numbers and Trees
One of my favorite art displays that I saw at the Hammer Museum
was the Numbers and Trees instillation Charles Gaines. It combines colors and
numbers to create a painting of a tree. Gaines uses painter acrylic sheets that
have a grid with numbers on them and the numbers on each sheet correspond with
a number. He then layers the sheets on top of each other to make a complete
painting. This instillation was a good example of Art and Math, which we
covered in week two.
Another area I enjoyed the futuristic models that artist/architects
have made that may be built in cities someday. One of my favorite ideas was the
Jiading Bridge that is planed to be built in Shanghai, China. It can
interchange between being a flat bridge for cars or wheelchairs and it can also
have a s-shape, like it is shown below to let boat pass underneath it while
still allowing people to walk of the bridge. I thought that this idea was a
clever combination of futuristic architecture and art.
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