NYC offers a variety of museums and I set out on a Friday to explore MOMA on my day off. I had gone with my sister to have a day to spend time together and show her art and some of my favorite pieces the museum offered. My favorite piece at the museum is called “Water Lilies” by Claude Monet. I had first gone to see it was in February 2016. During my first time I was captivated by the grand scale of the three panels stretching across the entire wall and a focal point in the room. The lilies sat on pinks and lilacs depicted on the water and it made me feel at ease as. Months later in May, I went abroad and had the opportunity to see his garden where he got the inspiration for this piece in his garden. It made me immediately see the vision Monet had when he originally painted this piece because his garden was a world of colors filled with pinks, lilacs, and greens everywhere.
The museum featured many other works and I had enjoyed teaching my sister about various artists and discussing the strange methods artists use to create their own version of art through sculptures, paintings and exhibits. Certain themes I found around the museum were expressionism, abstract expressionism, cubism, landscapes, and minimalism. By having spaces dedicated to each style, there are distinct differences between all of them with cubism emerging from Picasso and Braque, landscapes portrayed by Vincent Van Gogh in Starry Night and by Salvador Dali. Art has no limits and seeks to provide a source of expression for every artist whether it is replication of something else or trying to evoke a feeling they had and translating it into their work.
