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In this weeks lectures Professor Vensa discusses medicine and technology and explains how anatomy, x-rays, and plastic surgery correlate with art. Professor Vensa explains how "dissecting the human body was important for artist (Lec 1)." This gave artists a better understanding of the internal picture of the body and allowed them to illustrate the inner layers of a human. As technology advanced a german man by the name of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovered x-rays "while experimenting with electrical currents through glass cathode-ray tubes (HowStuffWorks)." This new technology enabled artists to illustrate accurate artwork of a skeleton. Plastic surgery was another topic of medicine that influenced art. Orlan is a woman who "started a series of surgical performances... in which her objective was to embody and envision beauty created by renown painters throughout the history (Lec, 3). I never looked at anatomy as a connection to art, but after listening to P

In this weeks lecture Professor Vensa about industrialization and how the Chinese created the gate way for mass production. Professor Vensa explains how "printing press was invented by the Chinese in 1040, it was not invented in the West until 1450 by Johannes Gutenberg" (Lecture, 1). The Printing press paved the way for mass production and allowed new ideas and ideology to spread throughout the world. In 1913 Henry Ford came up with the assembly line, "his innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 min" (Fords assembly line, History.com). This innovative idea has forever changed the way a product is mass produced. Walter Benjamin on the other hand, believes mass production is bad for the authenticity of a product. Benjamin explains "the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits the are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are i

Last Tuesday, April 18th myself and a couple friends attended Linda Weintraubs lecture. As soon as we entered the lecture space we were greeted by a table with chips, water bottles and a delicious bowls of guacamole and salsa. The space to the left was set up as an art gallery with some of her projects put on display for people to walk around and look at. The piece that stood out to me the most was what look like a ceramic eyes, nose and lips connected together with strings having down from the ceiling. and behind it was a drawing of a face placed against the wall behind the ceramic pieces. In Lisas lecture she talked about Eco-Art, and how art can translate into helping the environment. I can relate to this on a personal level as I was raised by my father who is an artist and considers himself an environmentalist. My father has always taught me to respect the environment and especially the ocean. Because marine life has such an influence on his art, he has donated a number of his

After this weeks discussion of mathematics and art, I found it very intriguing how both correlate with one another and how their relationship goes hand in hand. Before learning about this extraordinary relationship I never though of art to be so mathematically involved, but once I understood the relationship of the two it made a lot of sense.  What is really interesting is how Brunelleschi came up with the first formulation of linear perspective. His understanding of linear perspective was that there should be a single vanishing point to which all parallel lines in the planes converge. Brunelleschi use math to create depth in a painting, before the understanding of linear perspective pictures were flat and depth did not exist. By looking at a painting with depth I wouldn't have realize how much math had gone into the painting which ultimately controlled the position of the spectator. An image that stood out to me in lecture was the floor with square tiles. Alberti uses the

After reading both, "Two Cultures and Scientific Revolution", and "Third Culture: Being in between" I was really able to reflect on college career. I came into UCLA with the aspiration of pursuing a civil engineer major, my father was a civil engineer so I thought why not. However being a student-athlete I was limited to the types of classes I could take because of my busy athletic schedule, so I needed to switch to something more manageable. History was the most interesting in high school so I decided to try it out. After taking courses South Campus and suddenly switching to North Campus, I was shocked to see the wide gap between the two sides of UCLA. Since I switched majors I have only stepped foot on South campus a few times. With technology advancing at an increasingly fast rate I can see how the third culture has come into play. I would have to respectfully disagree with Brockman's idea of the two cultures staying spirit from one another. If would loo