Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures-LACMA 04/02/2009

On Thursday I went to LACMA with my friend Varian



to see "Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures"


When we got there we couldn't find the entrance! It was hiding behind these:



Unfortunately, the security guards there didn't seem to like Varian, or people in general really. So Varian had to take all of his pictures all incognito-like. This is my favorite of the ones he took inside:



So, most of the pictures I am about to post are from other websites. But I wanted to show some of my favorite pieces from the exhibit.

This was a wooden house with potatos nailed to it. I don't really know why.


I liked this picture:



The photos on the wall to the right are terrorists. Before I knew that, I said to Varian, that wall makes me feel like I am in My Terrorism Class. I would say I am a stereotyper, but in this case it was true!



We think these are shoes from the concetration camps because the other art in the room was about facism and nazis, but we aren't sure:



I told Varian that this was his favorite: It is a lot of black paint with some other colors mixed in. I really liked it too.



But this was my favorite of the whole exhibition. It has enough Pop art to feed my sensibilities, and a little sickle action to feed my "Commie Love"



From the Net:
Nowhere is art more firmly tied to history than in post-war Germany. Arising from the ashes of World War II only to follow two dramatically different paths during the Cold War, German art has still yet to gain an unequivocal national identity, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thus we have the powerful exhibition, "Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures," Jan. 25-Apr. 19, 2009, which makes its sole U.S. appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

E.H. Gombrich wrote, "What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true." No fiction could compete with the reality of 20th-century German history. "Cold War Cultures" is a groundbreaking effort to view post-war German art as a whole, integrated within a specific national context. For more information on the exhibition, and the array of events that accompany it, visit www.lacma.org.

The art was both depressing and hopeful, I really liked it.