Going to the MOMA

For my final blog post on the academic section, I chose to go to the museum. I was asking my friends for museum recommendations and they all suggested that I go to the MOMA or Museum Of Modern Arts. Entry was free with student ID so how could I not go. Going to the Museum of Modern Arts was a new experience for me because the last time I went to a museum was in elementary school and I could not remember anything about that trip. I was looking at paintings on the 5th floor of the MOMA. The 5th floor has many pictures from the French. So the first picture that really interested me was a picture from Henri Matisse. The title of the picture is Interior with a Young girl from 1905-06. The picture was a intimate scene of his daughter. Such a simple scene was painted so nicely and had a lot of messages. The next picture that really interested me was a picture by Georges Braque. The picture is titled The Large trees from 1906-07. Georges Braque had a goal of making more vividly colorful images of nature. He painted some trees near the Bay of Marseilles. Again, we see such a simple image turn into something complex with colors popping that gives us many messages. The final picture that interested me was by Andre Derain titled Charing Cross Bridge from 1905-06. In this picture, Andre Derain drew the London Sky with very dramatic color. In the summer of 1905, he developed this bright palette while painting along Henri Mattisse in France. They both produced the most radical canvases to date. Going to the MOMA made me realize that painting to me is really relaxing. I went by myself and stayed for almost an hour. During that hour, I was just reading the paintings and their history. The history behind some paintings were really interesting. For example, some paintings from the holocaust were interesting because those painters were there and encountered what was happening in the world at that time. This MOMA experience makes a part of me wanting to take an Art class next semester because I realized that painting isn’t boring. Painting is a way to express one persons feelings and stories. I’m really interested to see what other painters stories are so i’m seriously considering taking an art class next semester.