MoMA

So this Thursday’s art history class took place at the MoMA. I was excited to go because the professor said that there would be artworks that looked cool and something that everyone would be interested in. I first went to the architecture section and I saw really cool furniture and weird inventions. I wanted to do my paper on one of them, but none of them had much to write about. I decided to look at paintings even though I found them boring, but they might have a lot to write about. I went to this section in the museum with artworks that had very little going on. I remember there were a couple of artworks that were just plain white and I didn’t understand why they were considered art. I mean, I could have just hung a blank canvas on a wall and call that art. However, there was this one painting that was completely black and I got really confused because there was absolutely nothing going on there. I read the description for it and turns out the artist used different types of black paint, and he painted the corners black with a subtle hint of red, and the middle with blue and green. It took me a while to finally see it, but when I did I was super amazed. I decided to do my paper on minimal artworks because even though there might not be anything there, the way people interpret it is very different, and that makes the painting interesting.