Thursday 5 July 2012

Museum of Modern Art, NYC





While I was in New York, during my visit to the Museum of Modern Art, I looked at their collection of  19th and 20th century art and these are some of the pictures I took. I have categorised the art works according to the date they were produced.


19th century



Paul Gauguin, Washerwomen, 1888




Paul Gauguin, The Seed of the Areoi, 1892




Vincent Van Gogh, The Olive Trees, 1889




Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889




Edvard Munch, The Storm, 1893




Paul Cezanne, Turning Road at Montgeroult, 1898



Early 20th century


Gustav Klimt, Hope, II, 1907-08




Paul Cezanne, Chateau Noir, 1903-04




Georges Braque, Road Near L'Estaque, 1908




Pablo Picasso, Woman Plaiting Her Hair, 1906




Pablo Picasso, Two Nudes, 1906




Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907




Samovar, Kazimir Malevich, 1913




Piet Mondrian, Composition in Brown and Gray, 1913




Diego Rivera, Jacques Lipchitz, (Portrait of a Young Man), 1914




Pablo Picasso, Repose, 1908




Pablo Picasso, Woman's Head, 1908




Pablo Picasso, Fruit Dish, 1908-09




Pablo Picasso, Violin and Grapes, 1912




Marcel Duchamp, Network of Stoppages, 1914




Marcel Duchamp, 3 Standard Stoppages, 1913-14




Jean (Hans) Arp, Enak's Tears (Terrestial Forms) , 1917




Marcel Duchamps, To Be Looked At (From the Other Side of the Glass), With One Eye, Close To, For Almost An Hour, 1918




Henri Matisse, The Rose Marble Table, 1917




Henri Matisse, Bather, 1909




Henri Matisse, Composition, 1915




Henri Matisse, Woman on a High Stool (Germaine Raynal) 1914




Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921




Amedeo Modigliani, Anna Zborowska, 1917




Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude, 1919




Claude Monet, Water Lillies, 1914-26




Kazimir Malevich, Woman with Pails (Dynamic Arrangement), 1912-13




Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension, 1915




Lyubov Popova, Painterly Architectonic, 1917




Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Painting, 1916-17




Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Construction in Enamel, 1923

These works and a third were fabricated in an enamel factory and they share an abstract geometric composition. It is likely that Moholy-Nagy made them shortly after his appointment to the Bauhaus in April 1923 as an articulation of the radical rejection of the handmade, unique artwork in favour of serial mechanical production. The artist later claimed to have dictated the specifications for these constructions by telephone, underscoring the role of the artist in the technological age as producer of ideas, not objects.



Piet Mondrian, Composition in White, Black  and Red, 1936




Frida Kahlo, Fulang Chang and I, 1937




Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1943




Joan Miro, 'Hirondelle Amour' 1933-34




Jean Arp, Two Heads, 1929, painted wood




Joan Miro, The Birth of the World, 1925




Meret Oppenheim, Red Head, Blue Body, 1936





Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43




Alice Neel, Kenneth Fearing, 1935
                              


Alexander Calder, Gibraltar, 1936




Dorothea Tanning, On Time Off Time, 1948



Late 20th century







Francis Bacon, Triptych, 1991















Louise Bourgeois, Sleeping Figure, 1951




Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55




Alberto Giaccometti, Annette, 1962




Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob's Ladder, 1957



Mark Rothko, No. 10, 1950




Francis Bacon, No. VII from Eight Studies for a Portrait, 1953




Christo (Christo Javacheff), Package On Wheelbarrow, 1935




Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950




Alberto Giacometti, The Chariot, 1950




Marisol (Marisol Escobar), LBJ, 1967




Donald Judd, Untitled (Stack), 1967




Dan Flavin, Untitled (to the 'innovator' of Wheeling Peachblow), 1968




Hannah Wilke, Marxism and Art: Beware of Fascist Feminism, 1977




Hannah Wilke, Ponder-r-rosa, White Plains, Yellow Rocks, 1975




looking closer




Eva Hesse, Repetition Nineteen III, 1968





Eva Hesse, Untitled, 1966





Lynda Benglis, Embryo II, 1967




Bruce Nauman, Untitled, 1965




Marisol,  (Escobar), Love, 1962, plaster and glass, (Coca-Cola bottle)




Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962




Andy Warhol, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times, 1963.


Well done for getting to the end of this, a very long post, but I wanted to record some of the paintings and sculpture that I enjoyed but did not want to divide it into two posts!










3 comments:

  1. So many fantastic works of art and all in one place (Your Blog,of course, but also the MOMA!). It must have been too much to take in during one visit. I think I'd have been exhausted.

    The collection really illustrates the dominance of American buying power during the 20th Century, But the money has gone elsewhere now.

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    1. Ha! Ha! Ha! My blog, of course!

      It was exhausting, but also tremendously exhilarating. That one day visit included not only the permanent collection (only a small fraction shown here) but also Diego Rivera, Cindy Sherman and the sculptures in the garden. Fortunately, we were allowed to photograph so I have a record of what was seen - I would have forgotten half of it otherwise.

      The art in New York is incredible and again, because of exhaustion, there was so much more I wanted to see, but did not have the time. From early on, the decision was made not to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art because there would be no time. I need to do four more posts of exhibitions visited which I have had no time to do - I keep telling myself that if I don't get my act together, it will be too late and I will have forgotten all about them.

      As for the dominance of the American dollar, you are absolutely spot on. I fell in love with New York in a big way - it is so exciting - and the whole time I kept telling myself 'you are in the Metropolis' which I was, the imperialist metropolis and of course, it would be exciting and fabulous and overwhelming because the resources were there to make it what it is.

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