Extra Credit

Living in the capitol of the State of California definitely has its perks. Northern California has its own beauty apart from Southern California. One of the beauties is the capitol building in Downtown Sacramento. They had an art and history and science exhibition at the capitol for a limited time. The capitol introduced an exhibition for a short amount of time called the Treasures of California.

Title of Exhibition at the Capitol

Inside the Exhibition 

This was very fascinating as it combined the history of early California, as well as the medicine of early California. The exhibit reminded me of the class because it combined medicine and art. As shown in the picture on the right, inside the glass windows were booklets of art pieces that showed early medications of curing the ill. In the early days, there was a lot of influence on herbal medication for helping multiple kinds of sickness.  The exhibit showed this by painting the flowers that were used and putting them onto display.

Selfie

Artwork in Exhibit (2017)

I thought this is very important and I encourage other fellow students to check this out if they are in town. This relates to the class especially the topic in medicine and art because even many years ago doctors were able to work with artists to find significance beyond the beauty of flowers. Gardening and landscaping is a type of art and doctors have been able to use that beauty to help the human body. This is giving others more of awareness between art and other disciplines, especial science and medicine and this is something that this class has taught us over and over again.

Event 3

Selfie with Elli Lopez Palace of Fine Arts Painting

Art Exhibit wall of photos (UC Davis 2017)

The event I attended was at UC Davis. This was an art exhibition of artists by the name of Ellie Lopez, Cynthia Chong, and Kyla Weigand. One artist which I felt was greatly related to this course was Elli Lopez. She is an architecture major at UC Davis and found an inspiration for art within her major. She painted the picture to the right of the Palace of Fine Arts. There is such a comparison between art and architecture. The two are very similar and in order to make different designs one must also be an artist. However within this there is also the hard science involved like mathematics and physics. Elli said she chose architecture because she enjoyed Engineering and also art and there was a similarity between the two. She said she chose to paint the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco because she loved the architecture and geometry within it. I myself have been to the Palace of Fine Arts many times and find it absolutely beautiful. The painting she made was very well made as well. I also enjoy paintings and the color scheme she chose also gave it a bright look.

Waterfall (Chong 2017, UC Davis)

Artworks by Kyla Weigand (2017, UC Davis)

Another painting that I found to be very cool is the one on the left made by another artist in the exhibition, Cynthia Chong. Her painting caught my eye because it was in the middle of the exhibition, the long horizontal abstract piece of art.  I always found abstract art to be very interesting and how each artist makes their own piece very distinct, yet when all placed together they all look the same. I would definitely recommend going to this as these artists were artists that painted as a side passion. They don’t have years of experience or are Art Majors, but they are just artists who learned how to create and were given the opportunity to showcase their work. It makes us realize that there are much more to art than we are used to. This is probably the most important thing I learned from this class, that not all artists come from the same background or major, but more is shown than meets the eye. The line between artists and scientists is fading as art and science go hand in hand.

Week 9

Outer Space picture from NASA telescopes

It’s hard to believe that this class is coming to an end, and I can’t think of another way to wrap it all up than with space and art! Professor Vesna had stated that this topic ties together all the previous topics we have had in class. She had stated that space has mathematics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology and based on past readings and research and of this weeks space topic it seems to be true.

Space is one of the most fascinating things in this earth. It has a universe of its own and thanks to the intelligence and scientists today, we are able to see within this phenomenon. But not only is it due to the researchers and engineers, artists also play a vital role in space as well. Annick Buereaud had stated in the Leonardo Art Project that it is artists and their work that reveal the essence of space for human. Artists have been the fuel of space exploration, with being able to embody in their art the dreams of humankind. (Leonardo Space Art project). This is definitely a different way of seeing art and how as time had passed with new technologies in art, most of it due to the creativity by artists.

Thom Kubli Float

One artist that I found very interesting was German artist Thom Kubli. He had created a flotation tank where this invention goes against gravity and floats, as one would do at the Dead Sea. He inspired this from his thoughts of being “different”, where he said it is the differences that provoke one to see beyond the normal environments (Forde 2010). 

Time Travel Theory 

This is probably where the creative ideas of movies of outer space come from. Many films try to recreate their own idea of what space looks like and what occurs in it. We attempt to understand it from our own perspective, such movies like ‘Meet the Robinsons’ and ‘E.T’. Future innovations I would love to see would be time traveling. It usually seems that space is connected with time traveling. In an article in TIME magazine I read a few years ago, it was said that in space a molecule was able to skip replication steps and even though this was only visible under microscopic lens, it gave the idea that time travel could be possible.  This is something we may not see in the near future, but could see in the distant future.

Works Cited:

Curtis R. Thom Kubli Float! Dancing on the Ceiling Art and Zero Gravity. Web. 2010. http://zerogravity.empac.rpi.edu/kubli/

Forde Kathleen. Dancing on the Ceiling. Art and Zero Gravity. Zero Gravity. Web. 2010. http://zerogravity.empac.rpi.edu/

“Leonardo Space Art Project Visioneers.” Leonardo Space Art Project. MIT Press, 1996. Web. 26 Nov. 2012.

Vesna , Victoria, dir. Space Part 1. 2012. Film. 30 Nov 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2O5C0Iv6ROo#Links to an external site.

Vesna , Victoria, dir. Space Part 3. 2012. Film. 30 Nov 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xCvFdfjj404Links to an external site.