For this assignment I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I really liked both of these museums, the MOMA more than the MET but both of them had aspects that I enjoyed. First I am going to talk about the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then about the Museum of Modern Art.
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art I wasn't really interested in the older works of art which seem to take up most of the museum, but I was interested in the Modern art. This section of the museum actually had a lot of artworks that I was familiar with and didn't expect to see there, and a lot of pieces that I had never seen or heard of but really liked. There were also a few exhibits that I wanted to see that were only there temporarily.
Some of the things that I really enjoyed seeing in the Modern Art section of this museum were pieces that I had never seen before such as "Skull" by Andy Warhol and also "Mao" by Warhol. "Mao" is absolutely huge and so you can't miss it in the museum. Another piece that I liked was"Lucas" by Chuck Close. That piece in particular was really interesting to see because I don't think that you can get the full effect of it without seeing it in person because there is so much detail in it up close. I also really liked Pablo Picasso's "Cavalier and Seated Nude" because it was just a really strange image and so it caught my attention right away. A lot of the art that I seen in this museum were works of art by artists that I was already familiar with, but these particular pieces were ones that I wasn't familiar with.
Besides the Modern Art section, I also wanted wanted to see the exhibits that were only up temporarily. These were Cezanne's Card Players and Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand. I was not that impressed with the Cezanne exhibit. It did have the Card Players which I wanted to see but I wasn't familiar with most of the other works that were in the exhibit and I thought there would have been maybe a few more of his that I had actually seen before. I did however really like the Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand exhibit. In particular, I really enjoyed seeing "The Steerage" and the many images of Georgia O'Keefe.
In the Museum of Modern Art I found that I really liked so many of the artworks that there just wasn't enough time to see everything that I wanted to in it. I felt like I could have spent days looking at everything and it was sort of overwhelming the amount of Modern Art to see there. I tried to see at least a little bit of everything from drawings to paintings, sculptures, and photography.
I felt like every piece of modern art that I have ever learned about was in this museum and I had to see it all. No matter where I went I could pick out art from artists I knew and I really liked that I was familiar with so many of the pieces in this museum but there were also pieces that I didn't know which I also enjoyed seeing. I think what surprised me about the art that I seen in this museum is how different the art looked in person that I had learned about in different classes. I was mostly interested in seeing the most well known pieces in this museum such as van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and Warhol's "Soup Cans". I also found that I liked some work better after seeing it in person such as De Kooning's "Woman and Bicycle" and pieces by Magritte.
I think the museum of Modern Art fit more for the kind of art that I am interested in and I think that it has a really good collection from a lot of great artists. I felt like it was the type of museum that everyone should really see at least once because it has all of these well known pieces in it and even pieces that might not be as well known but are still really interesting. I don't feel like I got to see everything that I wanted to in it though and I would like to go through it again.
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