MoMA only has 6th floors so it was probably the 6th floor. I wasn't in New York over the summer so I missed the show that was there. I believe that there was a small exhibition of Picasso's guitars and I think the summer before that a really great show of Picasso's prints that he made towards the end of his career that were full of his juicy and twisted personal mythology. When I was home I got my a** to the Guggenheim as fast as I could to see the Lee Ufan which was really charming.
I'm glad I could be helpful. I think sometimes us ADers, myself included, get a little too comfortable in our own heads and forget that art is intuitive for others in ways it isn't for us as individuals. I think it's acceptable to be outraged that museums talk down to even the best of us. I get angry every time I see that Louise Bourgeois Bull p***s cast hanging from the ceiling. Sure her work as an unhelpful feminist is important but that's doesn't make it good and it certainly is not the museum's right to make something to vulgar and backwards sound and look artistic. I can scream at it all I want but I still know that MoMA is home to one of my favorite paintings.
Personally, I'm not much for historical paintings and still life's anymore. I think it's reflective of my own boredom with the subject as I try to keep up with history as I learn it. I know exactly what piece of the drapery you were talking about... or at least I think I do. I assume it was the stripped sheets of linen? I don't find it particularly interesting but it's reflective of a time when artists were pushing the limits of canvas and linen and paint and sculpture. The museum dresses it up as something complex and artistic when it's really a quite simple piece: Look what I can do with linen. Look familiar? Yes because you all have beach towels and wallpaper that look like this. The Whitney had a show in 2008 I believe on the use of synthetics in modernism. Synthetics as in plastics and acrylics. These paints are normal for us but they were new and fresh and CHEAP when they first hit the market and they immediately became an art item. As snobbish as MoMA makes those linen tarps seem they and other's like it were critical to how art was made and what makes art. Now that modernism is a closed chapter, MoMA functions not only as a gallery space but a museum space that archives historical art from the time the museum was opened. This was a huge debate as modernism ended: what will all the MoMA's do now? It's still something they're figuring out and by the time contemporary and post-modern are through MoMA will have figured out what to do with themselves only to discover they have a new body of work to archive.
Next time you're in the city I'd recommend making your way to the Met because they have a remarkable collection of classical works as a well as a growing collection of modern and contemporary work. They're also cheap unlike the Guggenheim and the Whitney and MoMA and the Frick, etc.
ohh!! well good luck!! blaugh
well im kinda of a teacher giving students advise of 3D modeling but its a little tiring cuz i have to work from 9 am to 6 pm and then the class that is from 6 pm to 9 pmsweatdrop
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I'm glad I could be helpful. I think sometimes us ADers, myself included, get a little too comfortable in our own heads and forget that art is intuitive for others in ways it isn't for us as individuals. I think it's acceptable to be outraged that museums talk down to even the best of us. I get angry every time I see that Louise Bourgeois Bull p***s cast hanging from the ceiling. Sure her work as an unhelpful feminist is important but that's doesn't make it good and it certainly is not the museum's right to make something to vulgar and backwards sound and look artistic. I can scream at it all I want but I still know that MoMA is home to one of my favorite paintings.
Personally, I'm not much for historical paintings and still life's anymore. I think it's reflective of my own boredom with the subject as I try to keep up with history as I learn it. I know exactly what piece of the drapery you were talking about... or at least I think I do. I assume it was the stripped sheets of linen? I don't find it particularly interesting but it's reflective of a time when artists were pushing the limits of canvas and linen and paint and sculpture. The museum dresses it up as something complex and artistic when it's really a quite simple piece: Look what I can do with linen. Look familiar? Yes because you all have beach towels and wallpaper that look like this. The Whitney had a show in 2008 I believe on the use of synthetics in modernism. Synthetics as in plastics and acrylics. These paints are normal for us but they were new and fresh and CHEAP when they first hit the market and they immediately became an art item. As snobbish as MoMA makes those linen tarps seem they and other's like it were critical to how art was made and what makes art. Now that modernism is a closed chapter, MoMA functions not only as a gallery space but a museum space that archives historical art from the time the museum was opened. This was a huge debate as modernism ended: what will all the MoMA's do now? It's still something they're figuring out and by the time contemporary and post-modern are through MoMA will have figured out what to do with themselves only to discover they have a new body of work to archive.
Next time you're in the city I'd recommend making your way to the Met because they have a remarkable collection of classical works as a well as a growing collection of modern and contemporary work. They're also cheap unlike the Guggenheim and the Whitney and MoMA and the Frick, etc.
I teach people who are the same or older then me. rofl
well im kinda of a teacher giving students advise of 3D modeling but its a little tiring cuz i have to work from 9 am to 6 pm and then the class that is from 6 pm to 9 pm sweatdrop