Daily Archives: September 8, 2013

After countless loops around the puzzling galleries of the Museum of Modern Art, a pattern began to emerge. The emphasis of human beauty in its truest form seemed to be often represented through nudity. A concept which often causes a … Continue reading →

After reading the writings of John Berger and Sylvan Barnett, I began to look at art from many perspectives, much like the art movement of Cubism encourages. At first, I looked at the art with only the knowledge in my … Continue reading →

After reading the writings of Berger and Barnett, I believe that I had a better experience when I visited the MoMA this past Tuesday because the writings not only told me what to look for in paintings and how to … Continue reading →

Surrealism was an artistic movement that delved into the unconscious and expressed things that weren’t commonly seen in paintings during the more traditional artistic periods that preceded it. Knowing this prior to my trip to MoMA, I had no idea … Continue reading →

In my previous post about my pre-MOMA thoughts and ideas, I wrote about how Berger and Barnet teach us to examine art from more than one perspective. I wrote about how, at the MOMA, I would look at not only … Continue reading →