"So let them come, the gay incendiaries with charred fingers! Here they are! Here they are!... Come on! set fire to the library shelves! Turn aside the canals to flood the museums!...Oh, the joy of seeing the glorious old canvases bobbing adrift on those waters, discoloured and shredded!...Take up your pickaxes, your axes and hammers and wreck the venerable cities, pitilessly!"
Marinetti, F. T. (1676-1994) 'The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism' (from Art in Theory 1900-2000, p. 149)
This quote from an essay on futurism struck me as fascinating. It really captures anarchy (although I don't believe it) and the implications of what anarchy can do.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Body Worlds 3
Last weekend I had the chance to see Body Worlds 3 at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City, Utah. I had heard many great things about it, but what interested me most was learning about being healthy, as the website told me I would. I ended up not finding out much about being healthy, at least not information that I didn't already know (ex: don't smoke, don't eat fast food, etc.). The line wasn't bad when I got there, and the exhibit was wonderful, but I felt as though I didn't really learn as much as I thought I would. However the fetus room had new information for myself. I saw babies that were in test tubes during each of the weeks of pregnancy up to week 9 (and then after that they were just on display). I noticed that they were still very small and underdeveloped all the way until week 9, when previously I thought that the child was much larger at that point.
I also thought that the bodies looked quite interesting, the poses they had were phenomenal.
I don't know if it was worth the $22 I paid, but it wasn't a waste of time either. I just wish I had brought my sketch book to sketch the figures, as I had found out when I got there, artists could bring their sketchbooks in. But then again, I don't know if there would have been room to sketch considering how many people were stuffed into that exhibit. I am very glad I decided to do an earlier time than previously planned, because by the time I got done with the exhibit, the line was three times the length it was when I got in.
Oh and camels are a lot bigger than I thought. ^^
I also thought that the bodies looked quite interesting, the poses they had were phenomenal.
I don't know if it was worth the $22 I paid, but it wasn't a waste of time either. I just wish I had brought my sketch book to sketch the figures, as I had found out when I got there, artists could bring their sketchbooks in. But then again, I don't know if there would have been room to sketch considering how many people were stuffed into that exhibit. I am very glad I decided to do an earlier time than previously planned, because by the time I got done with the exhibit, the line was three times the length it was when I got in.
Oh and camels are a lot bigger than I thought. ^^
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)