MOMA
Monday, 4 October 2010 07:37 am
I’m in New York at the moment and taking the chance to visit the Museum of Modern Art.
Great museum and a beautifully designed building. It’s easy to go around and I can recommend you “eavesdrop” on one of the many guided tours that are going around. The guides really give you a good perspective on cubism, impressionism etc!
My key learnings was that Mondriaan (yes the Dutch artist) actually moved to New York when the Second World War started in 1940. And New York ended up to be his last place to live as he died in that city in 1944. While in Manhattan, his famous “Red Blue and Yellow” abstract paintings become a bit livelier and the below piece is a great example of it.
It’s called Manhattan Boogie Woogie and it really looks like a map of Manhattan.
Some other MOMA pieces I liked:
