event 3

I visited some famous museums in the eastern coast last spring break and found it really attracting. In this case, I went to Hammer Museum to take a look at the exhibition of James Welling, one professor in UCLA and find it really amazing and interesting last Friday.

Although Hammer is so close to our school, it is still the first time for me to visit it. For my first year in UCLA, I have had some chance to visit it, but because of some reason i did not. The Hammer Museum sits in the busy Westwood Blvd and is not that big. The structure of the museum is in modern style but not like those in New York or Washington DC.

As for the exhibition, I preferred Welling’s rather than those by Forrest Bess, another event exhibited that day, because Welling’s work are realistic and many of them are photograph. Bess’ works are abstract and hard to understand. As a science major student, I would like to have something straight rather than curving. The most interesting part of Welling’s exhibition, in my mind, is the part about the diary of his family. I think it would be pretty fun to look at them after you are old. In this case, I decide to start writing a diary from next quarter. Although the Bess’s work is hard to understand for me, there is still some part interested me. Pictographic characters is the earliest form of language and I study Classics 51A in winter quarter and find it is so amazing that ancient people can come up with the idea about the pictographic characters.