MoMA
Last Sunday I went to MoMA to see their Pixar exhibit. It was amazing to see the artwork that went into all of the movies. The colorscripts are jawdropping, and the physical artwork lends a solidity to things.
I went upstairs to see some of the regular stuff, and was blown away. Rothko. Pollock. Matisse. Warhol (the soup cans!). Lichtenstein. Cézanne. Van Gogh (Starry Night!). Seurat. Gauguin. Toulouse-Lautrec. Rousseau. Picasso. Miro. Vuillard. Mondrian (hell, a whole room! Boogie Woogie Broadway!). Magritte (alas, not Treachery of Images). Dali (the melting clock one).
The one disappointment was the “Safe: Design Takes On Risk” special exhibit. I thought it would be an industrial design thing, but it was a little of that mixed with artists' conception stuff and didn't really cohere.
But overall, it was great. Go to MoMA. You'll like it.
Comments
I went to MoMA and thought it was a giant waste of time and money. I must have been in the wrong sections since I missed Dali and Van Gogh and the other big names you mentioned. I had too much of the the Modern and less of the Art. A video of a fellow pushing himself along through paint with his toes just didn't impress me.
Posted by: Shira | January 10, 2006 11:41 AM