For my first event, I visited the Getty Center just on the
other side of the 405. I found the architecture at the Getty to be breathtaking
and I never pay attention to things like that, so it must be even more
impressive than I think. After immediately taking myself outside to look out
over the city, I wandered around the museum looking for something to be calling
my name.
I found myself in an exhibition called “Poetry of Paper”. At first I
walked over because it looked too simple to be art displayed at the Getty. The
explanation helped a bit but when I pondered it on my own for a while, I really
enjoyed the section. I
found it so interesting that the artists incorporated the blank space in their
piece of art. It opened my eyes to something I had never thought about before.
However, the blank parts of a picture are still major components of the artwork
as a whole. My favorite piece was a 1485 painting titled View of a Walled City in a River Landscape by Master LCz. The sky was blank which to me stood for the actually blankness of sky and air. This exhibition made me think about how many different concepts
that I learned about in this class had never spoken to me as art. Once I was
forced to think of them as part of the art, everything started looking like
art. This is how I felt about the “negative space” in the images of the
exhibition. At first I looked at the corner of the drawing with no etchings and
thought, “Well isn’t that just being a tad lazy” but once I concentrated and brought
my mind to focus on the blank paper as art, it made a lot of sense. The world
needs the emptiness. It cannot function if all space is consumed or if there is
never silence, only noise. That is how I felt after looking at the art in the
“Poetry of Paper” exhibition. This blank space was the necessary silence in the
art, while the rest of the drawing did the talking.
Getty Image: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/24/entertainment/la-et-cm-getty-research-institute-parking-fees-20120723
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