For my Enrichment Workshop this week, I chose the academic option. I went to the Museum of Modern Art (The MoMa) before it was temporarily closed due to renovation. I really enjoyed the MoMa because it is such a beautiful place. It is a big building with natural light overlooking Manhattan. The MoMa is beautiful itself but it also displays some beautiful artwork. The MoMa’s collection of art carries a variety of mediums and works. The museum carries oil paintings to sculptures to technological medium work. There are multiple rooms in the MoMa but I really enjoyed the Andy Worhol exhibition. I think he was a great artist because he took simple things with not a lot of details and made it art. For example, he used a picture of Marilyn Monroe, turned it into pop art, and incorporated repetition in the piece of the same Marilyn Monroe image using ink printing. Ink printing is when the artist carves out the image they desire in a piece of linoleum. When they have their desired image in the linoleum, they cover it in ink, press a paper to it, and put it through a cranking machine to press the paper and the linoleum together so when you peel the paper off, there will be the desired image on the paper in ink. Ink printing sounds complicated and it is! I used this medium in AP art last year. It is very time consuming and frustrating because the ink won’t always turn out perfect every time. For this reason, I give Andy Worhal major credit for creating such beautiful art using ink printing. One very popular piece done by Worhal was “Campbell’s Soup Can”. This is one of Worhals most seem pieces and it is just the same picture of a soup can over and over again.  Out of the Warhol exhibition, this was the piece of work that seemed to have the most attention from people observing the exhibition. I find it very fascinating how something so straightforward like a can has the ability to grab so many people’s attention, including mine. I think it is because repetition is striking to the eye. With all of that being said, I really enjoyed my day at the MoMa and am hoping to return once the renovations are done!