After English class on Thursday I went alone to the Museum of Modern Art. Luckily for me there was a 6 train that went there straight from Baruch.  This is a museum I am familiar with and visit a lot. They always add new artworks and exhibits throughout the year. I got to the museum about an hour before closing so I had a good amount of time to explore. Not much has changed since the last time I visited.

The museum has 6 floors filled with interesting pieces of art. The interior design of the building is really cool too. Most people think of art work as a painting or photograph but there is way more too it. For example I saw carvings and handmade work. There are different types of artwork too. The main ones I checked out where: Impressionism.Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism and Surrealism. My favorite out of the bunch has to be surrealism. Surrealism paints dreams. Surrealism is my favorite because the artist can express anything imaginable on the design. It looks futuristic as well.  I found it really cool to look at art in person compared to seeing it in a book. Last year I read a book analyzing different types of artwork throughout the world. They had many drawings/paintings from the book at the MOMA museum. I thought these pieces of art would look huge but it turned out most of them looked tiny. The Persistence of Memory is a painting by Salvador Dali that really stands out to me. It expressed imagination and the colors Dali used were extraordinary.

The painting I took a selfie with was actually painted by a man that works at the Museum of Modern Art. Unfortunately  I didn’t get an opportunity to meet with him. The experience I got from going to this musuem was really informational and showed me that I could learn a lot outside of school. I will be taking advantage of more free museums in the future.