Moma_Visit

Art History II Prof. Cac  MoMa Visit Last Friday I went to visit the MOMA as part of a class assignment. At first I did not want to go because I didn’t think there would be anything in there that would catch my interest, little did I know I would be heading back there the very next week to see the Tim Burton exhibition, and of course explore that museum one more time in case I missed anything from my previous visit. The first time I went was a Friday, the only day that is free to go in, and of course being free it was natural that it was going to be crowded; when I got there I saw that it was a little more crowded than I thought. When I went to receive the free ticket I had to go to the back of the line which went to almost the end of the block, the museum employees tried to keep our morale up by making a joke every now and then. The employees at the front of the line that were giving out the tickets looked as if they were 5 minutes away from a breakdown. As soon as I managed to go past the security checking the tickets I saw the reason why the museum was so crowded on that day. The Tim Burton exhibition was finally opened. Since the floor that had the Tim Burton exhibition was packed I decided to head to the fifth floor and work my way down little by little. When I got to the fifth floor I noticed something that I found pretty cool. The architecture in the MoMa is pretty interesting, for example the walk ways look as if they were weak and would collapse as soon as three people would walk upon it at the same time, and yet there were like 20+ people just standing there and many more walking by, the stair cases had glass panels that allowed you to see some of the zig zag patterns. The fifth floor was the home of the Bauhaus exhibition; I spent a little time reading their time line, I later moved on to see their work. What I noticed about their style is that they emphasized 90 degree angles and quadrilateral shapes. This was true for a lot of the furniture and art work that was present there. As I made my way down to the first floor again I saw many pieces of art work that we studied in class, pictures whose style of artwork included cubism, and that were also abstract like many of Picasso’s paintings. Some of the most famous paintings that I saw were by Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh, especially Starry night by Van Gogh, as I was walking by I saw a large crowd of people gathering around something or someone, at first I thought it might had been a celebrity, as I saw many camera flash go off, of course my curiosity got the best of me and I ended up checking it out, when I got close I saw what the big fuss was about, at first I was a little disappointed that the painting wasn’t as large as I thought, but as I thought about it a little more and thought about the symbolism and significance of it the size didn’t seem to matter anymore, seeing that this was one of Van Gogh’s latest paintings and one of the most famous worldwide and I was standing in front of it seemed pretty cool. As I walked down the isle I started to recognize Van Gogh’s style of painting allowing me to recognize the artist before I could even get close enough to see information plaque. Overall my visit to the MoMa was a pleasant one, and as I mentioned I went back the following week and dragged some of my friends along to visit the Tim Burton exhibition, one thing that I kept in mind the second time was to bring walking shoes, because the first time I ended up with my feet killing me, that museum is too big to see it all with detail in one day.