Week 4

1.What does MoLAA stand for?
Museum of Latin American Art.

2.Explain what you see on the above video clips
In the first clip you are shown a barrage of different pieces belonging to the various exhibitions that have been held. The camera man also gives you close ups of the pieces and a little background on it's history and creator(i.e. country of origin, where the artist resides and so on.)

3.What did you learn from the video clips
1The Museum of Latin American Art is located in Long Beach California
2. Laura Hernandes was born in 1960 in Mexico
3 Diego Linares was born in 1965 Argentina

4What is one specific work in this location that attracted you? Give us the name, and related background info which you must do more research on google.com.
I had a really hard time locating some in depth information on the artist Miguel Antonio Bonilla, but if you look at the sites permanent collection list you will find the piece by the aforementioned artist entitled The Knot. This is a fairly recent work, its credited on the web site as 1994 and that the artist was born in El Salvador. From what little information I found on the art and artist I have come to the conclusion that the artist is know for his comical handling of difficult topics that many nations everyday citizenry Latin or otherwise have to deal with. In this piece I am assuming that the artist is touching upon his homelands many notoriously corrupt government agencies and how they operate in unison to promote their own causes other than the people's. A police officer an politician are standing facing a big blue sky filled with white fluffy clouds passing by. The two of them have turned their heads towards one another and are connected by a brightly coloured candy cane growing out of each of their mid-sections and are met in the middle forming a huge knot that in my mind represents the corruption that the two scumbags helped foster to the detriment of their own people and homeland.