Event 4: Getty Museum - 18th-Century French Drawings from Los Angeles Collections

     What I want to focus on is the mathematical and art lecture because there was a lot of precise and architectural elements going on between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The drawing exhibition featured multiple drawings from portraits to landscapes. These showed me the importance of getting features right from bodies and buildings. Two point perspective was key to getting everything in the right position. This use of mathematics was what helped these artists get the right proportions and to show depth in their pieces. Some were sketches showing the first states of the drawings and other were finished products that looked realistic. 

     As I entered a different room I began to see paintings and I related them to the drawings because paintings almost always start off as drawings first. You need to set up your blue print in order to know where to apply the oil paint on the canvas. I saw the progress of how using different colors and shades affected and brought out amazing and realistic perspective to the paintings; even more than the drawings themselves

   






       It seemed that art and architecture was extremely important during this time and it showed in their every day household items. There were clocks, mirrors, beds, carpets, tapestries, candles, cups, anything you could think of had a touch of architectural element to it. Architecture requires the use of mathematics, drawing, and of course physics to make sure you know how to structure the buildings so they would not fall apart. Columns were a huge part of architecture because they were the support system that held together the whole building. Along with the knowledge of the sciences, you require the skill to draw and plan out the architectural structure. The person designing the structure may have required help from an artist and this shows an actual encounter of the two cultures meeting. I do believe architecture is a subject that is in the third culture. 

I also found materials such as gems and minerals that were used in Psalters (books) that were ground up to show how colorful they were. (This brought me back to the Natural History Museum where I visited their gems and mineral exhibit). Not to mention that these books are full of art work and types of architectural displays.