Before this weekend, I have only been to the MOMA one other time. My first experience there was quite quick in which I just walked past the art looking at what was before me. If I liked it, I would stop and look at it for a few minutes. However, If i found the work unappealing I found myself just walking right passed it. This time though, after reading both Berger and Barnet and how they discuss how art should be looked at from more than one perspective, I walked around the MOMA with an open mind.

I found myself stopping at what I found to be obscure works of art such as Picasso and asking myself the questions I found in the readings. I stood there, wondered, and discussed with my partner about what the artist wanted us to see and the story we believed was behind the painting. As Berger says in Ways of Seeing “paintings are reproduced with words around them” and this is exactly what I was trying to accomplish during this visit.

The most fascinating piece of work that I saw during the visit had to be Georges-Pierre Seurat’s pointillism work. I went up as close as I can to the picture to see all of the minuscule dots and slowly backed away to see the whole it created. I was amazed at the small detail that I may not have even noticed if I just walked right by it. Even the frame was covered in dots! With just a small shape an entire image was created and a beautiful piece of artwork was made. Taking time to really look at a piece of art and from different perspectives just as Berger and Barnet wrote about really makes a difference when trying to find the deeper meaning of something.