Cultural Mapping Through Museums
Art cannot be confined to a Museums. It has many levels of depth pertaining to it. The message it is expressing to all is not always recognized, but is always received. This is what I am learning. Before this class, I thought that I did not know anything about Art, that Art was like every other subject that I have taken, where there is no room for your opinion. That it is either black or white, right or wrong, but this is not true. By questioning, you begin to understand what the artist is expressing. This is exactly what the title of our book, Believing is Seeing, has been trying to express. You reflect your beliefs into the Art. It is not the other way around, seeing is believing, because you already have opinions. If you were a blank chock board then it would be seeing is believing, but you are not like this, you already have opinions about everything. You have to unlearn everything you know in order to understand Art. You learn that even if you do not think you have an opinion about something, that actually you do, but you just do not know it.This semester we have been to the following museums in the following order: Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA), Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Watt's
Due to life experiences noticing the cultural mapping and understanding it apparent to me in a different way. I now regret what I did looking back at it, but I still have time and room to change this. They do not have anything that the marginal culture can relate to on the fundamental, primary level, as the MoLAA does. What about LACMA? Los Angeles County covers quite a large area, yet does not addresses the language issue. My perspective on life has been from a first generation point of view. This is one of the best ways that the dominant culture has distinguished themselves from the marginal culture. Every day I am finding out that I am more and more against the dominant culture and I am understanding the reason why. Having a Greek heritage and wanting to keep it alive causes me to want to learn Greek. MoLAA is in a building that was previously a clinic, and it can be said that it is in a bad area part of town. That is what I believed for a while, until I learned better. Look at the point which Devin brought up at the Getty, there was only one statue of African Art in the entire place. They are the only institution that we have been to and that I have ever seen, that display descriptions in two languages, English and Spanish. This shows that representation and meaning is multi-leveled. Towers, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and The Getty Museum.
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