The MoMA is always a fun museum to visit because of its exhibitions and the most recent visit did not fail my expectations. The MoMA held a René Magritte exhibition and this was exciting because I finally discovered who this artist was. Having seen his works all over, for example the sky in the eye and the painting with the apple in front of the man, I was treated to a nice surprise when the exhibit I was going to was going to be about him. I was walking around with Professor Eversley and right as we entered the exhibit she started talking about alienation and the dismembered bodies. As I walked around the exhibit I saw more and more of this “alienation” that Professor Eversley was talking about. Magritte painted many pictures of body parts without the head and because there is no head, it shows a sense of being isolated. Another theme that I saw with his paintings were the words over images, the same print over and over again, and segmentation. The painting above, I thought, was a good “summary” painting of what was in the exhibit. It showed human flesh, segmentation, and all the different prints such as wooden planks, the sky, and the bells.

After this exhibit, I went down to the second floor to the Projects Gallery. I came across Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1. It was a film exploring the psychologically fraught relationship between two men. One of them was constantly subjugated by the owner of the house in which this was filmed. The other man tried to assert his dominance however, he failed many times. It was overall an interesting and slightly disturbing film.