Event Blog #3

As the school year comes to a close, I chose to explore The Getty Museum for the first time since moving to California.  The museum had some wonderful exhibits, but what I found most enticing was the experience and the views.  A trolley car takes visitors from the ground level parking to the buildings and gardens with amazing sights of Los Angeles.  

In the trolley car

The view

The exhibit that I loved the most was one featuring the essence of Russian dances.  This exhibit was demonstrated by Degas.  He used sculptures, as well as pastel painting, to illustrate his take on the Russian-style of movements.  Degas was a French impressionist with more than half of his works depicting dancers (Wikipedia.org).

I thought Degas beautiful incorporated technology and design into his art, in his attempts to portray the movement of people.  I believe that dance takes lots of design in order to perfect, as it is also an art in its own right.  The beautiful nature of dancing is that it is art itself, but then Degas used design, technology, and his own creativity to make it his own form of art.  I admire his works because he does sculptures and art pastels with the same subjects.  I believe that generalist artists that use two forms of art to spotlight the same works have a larger amount of capital in the world of art and design.

Sources:

"Edgar Degas." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 25 May 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas>.