Academic

With my Baruch ID, I choose to visit the MOMA with a friend. Although this was not the first time I went to the MOMA, it was definitely the first time I saw art in a different light. Before this trip, I initially thought some of the art at the MOMA was ridiculous. I mean, how could a blank piece of canvas be art? After this trip, I learned that things have multiple perspectives. For example, how I see the art is different from how another person sees the art, and it might even be different from the artist’s intention. Each piece of art work has a purpose… even the blank canvas. Each shape’s position, each stroke, the types of stroke, the intended form of presentation, all have a purpose even if I do not know what it is. The most notable exhibit I walked into was Robert Rauschenberg’s Among Friends. One of the more memorable piece consisted of multiple art pieces of Rauschenberg’s friends placed together. The art piece was like a “collage”. This was memorable because of the story behind it. The story was that there was an art exhibit, and Rauschenberg’s friends were denied entry, except Rauschenberg was given entrance to display is work. So he takes his friend’s pieces of art and joins them together, and he submitted it to be displayed. Another piece that he had displayed was a row of blank canvases, and he also had a black canvas hanging. Others were more thought provocative in making me question what this piece is, the story behind it, and the reasons for the color and placement of objects. A couple were created in the 1960s, and displayed cold war objects, which really goes to show how events of a time period affect art. Some of these 1960s pieces contained a large image of John F. Kennedy, the space shuttle, and a dark cloud (of what I assume to be the mushroom cloud created by the atomic bomb), and Martin Luther King Jr. These images show some of the era’s most important events. this trip has taught me a new way to understand art. A lasting impression that I can take in the academic aspect is, perhaps, how to be more analytical, and try to understand from multiple perspectives.