Guggenheim-awesome museum!
Art that is very interesting to a person and pleasing to the eye is very rare to find. The Guggenheim museum, located in East 89th Street and 5th Avenue, provides such art. This museum contains art from movements such as Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Surrealist movements, which is more recent art dating close to the late 19th century to early 20th century. Due to construction, only about 3 exhibits were open so the number of paintings was limited but it was enough to be satisfied. The art of the Guggenheim museum allows a viewer to relate to the painting while at the same time enjoy the painting for what the painter intended it to be.
The art in the Guggenheim is very powerful and basically the best art I have seen in my life. Solomon’s Gift is an exhibition in the museum that contains art from famous painters such as Marc Chagall and Henri Rousseau. A very interesting painting that caught my eye as I was looking through the exhibition was Paris Through the Window by Marc Chagall. Even though this painting was very abstract, one wanted to know what was going on in Paris at the time that Chagall painted it. One got the impression that Paris was very weird and different than America, but to the painter, Paris was a beautiful city full of pleasures. The painting by Rousseau, Artillerymen, can be seen as portrait when one looks at it, but it is not. This painting is very powerful as it is very gloomy and serious. It was just Rousseau’s way of depicting modern times, very serious. The painter and viewer can connect in a way of one’s first perception of a certain subject.
Another exhibition I saw was the Thannhauser Collection, which contained some of the best paintings I have ever seen. Artists included in this collection are Picasso and Van Gogh. Van Gogh’s painting Landscape with Snow was very touching. Once you look at it, you can put yourself in the painting as if you were there. It’s very lonely yet beautiful due to then natural surroundings. I felt a kind of weird relaxation and a chill when I looked at this painting. The viewer can relate to the painter in this case because both see the painting as lonely and gloomy. The most captive and amazing painting that I saw in this gallery as well as these two exhibitions was Le Moulin de la Galette by Pablo Picasso. This painting is very alive as you can see people in some sort of festivity. When you look at this painting, you want to join the party because it is very different from today’s parties yet it seems to have the same amount of delight. If you ever pass by this collection, I recommend you take a look at this painting.
The Guggenheim is a museum to be appreciated by today’s world. Some of the best paintings are situated here and it won’t be a waste of your time. The art here is interesting and it relates to the viewer, so you won’t get bored trying to determine its true meaning.