I usually don’t visit a lot of museums, since the one’s i had visited before weren’t very interesting to me. I have always heard a lot of people discussing MOMA so i’m glad that this class assignment helped push me to go. As i looked through the different exhibits and paintings, i was fascinated by much of the art that stood out to me. One particular piece that i really enjoyed analyzing was by Bela Kolarova called “five by four”. This piece of art consisted of three separate paintings which all combined together to create one central idea. When I saw the first of these three pieces of art, i felt as if i was staring into a tunnel that led to a different dimension. The contrast between the light and the dark is highly signified in this piece. The outer shaded area is surrounded by light and with a softer shading of darkness, but as it goes closer into the center the observer can view that the shading gets darker and darker and the lighter areas are beginning to come out of view. This painting helped me compare this piece with the actual world. In my point of view i was able to see how just like the painting, when looking at the world from the outside, everything seems to be peaceful and calm and full of “light” but when analyzing the world in a deeper sense it is clear that theres no peace. Just like the darkness there is chaos and issues that are not seen by everyone, it is chosen to be ignored.

The second part of this art exhibit allows the contrast between light and dark to take a higher effect. In this part i am able to see what i had analyzed in the first painting, but this time there is splotches of light that attempt to hide the background of dark colors. In my opinion i was able to see this part of the painting as a kind of “cover up”. The pieces of light colors used in this section of the painting were made to cover up or hide the chaos that lies behind the light. Lastly, in the third painting, which i saw as being the most powerful, looked to me as a giant circle of darkness. This section of the painting described the world for what it really is. The dark colors represent the true darkness that covers our world. The distractions or the “covers up” presented in the second painting is not enough to color the truth since the truth is always revealed in the end.