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MOMA
The Modem museum of art has many excellent exhibitions with artist from around the world. Although the museum has very contemporary, bizarre and remarkable collections, I appraised my review into the two of the bigger leaders in Art, that in some way helped with the creation of the modern art and thanks to its abilities and talents, now we can count with a new variety of artist with astonish concepts and styles. MOMA had arrived this fall with a sub-realistic collection from Picasso and a sentimental and colorful collection from Van Gogh called “The Colors of the Night”. Both collections represents the best from the Cubism and the Expressionism eras.
Picasso, the Spanish artist from Spain and one of the creators of the Cubism, gives an original, irrational, conceptual and antisocial view about art. His geometrized paints and sculptures suggest a feeling of primitive sense, and the representation of a visual concept is not represented by its own identity any longer. Before, art used to be the representation of a religious ritual or commemoration of an important events. These examples can be found in paints and sculptures from the Renaissance era, where these visual concepts were the real representation of something that happened in history, but not a surreal concept as Picasso did. Picasso never wanted to create something that shows its realistic view. Instead, he created a concept where we as viewers could understand how our body can be represent as a geometric association, the body can not be necessary be perfect as a Greek body, and the beauty of women don’t exist. An example of this can be seen in the paint “Woman with a guitar,1914”, where it is notable the geometrized design and how the paints energies the combination of the guitar and the woman as figures in space. The judgment for the beauty and sensuality of the woman doesn’t exist, and the utility of the guitar can’t be determined. Therefore, the judgment of the paint is determined as a concept of intense emotion. Another notable example is the paint “Les Demoinelles d’ Avignon 1907” where trough the intense emotion, Picasso accomplished his style with the use of dramatic color, light, and forms. The paint breaths by itself emotions, even when the paint is not well detailed and the figures painted are simple geometric compositions charged with dramatic color.
On the other hand, Van Gogh gives us a style where feelings can be painted and the essence of life can be drawn. Van Gogh is one of my favorite artist. I called his art work “A depressed rainbow”. This painter from Holland shows in his work a well creative alternative of approaching colors and how to represent the expression, energy and feeling of the paint with the colors. One of his paints “The Starry night, 1889” gives us an example about Expressionism. The paint full with colorful brushes and a properly combination of colors, suggest a sad-romantic feeling of love, where the intensity of the colors creates the romantic feeling and the contrast and the combination of dark colors with light ones transform the paint into an energize place where things are represented by its essence and not by its shapes and forms as Picasso did with his work. Another important paint that represents Van Gogh idealism is “Portrait of Joseph Roulin, 1982” a paint that breaths intense emotions represented by colors. The used of dark colors in a blue scale creates an atmosphere where the colors describes the personality of Joseph.
To sum up I have to say that Picasso and Van Gogh are talented artists that came with concepts that now we can appreciate and compare to gives us a savvy direction in our artistic paths and perceptions. Van Gogh and Picasso’s work are exhibitions that communicates the genesis of modern art and the foundations and ideologies for new cotemporary artist.