The MoMA

My trip to the MoMA was pretty exciting, all the exhibitions and paintings they have are amazing. They were a couple of them that really caught my attention. When I entered the place the first things I looked for was the Frida Kahlo paintings. I was surprised and sad to know that they only have two of them, but happy at the same time because I got to see them. We all know and love Frida and admire her for her work. The one that caught my attention the most was Fulang- Chang and I, which is a two parts oil on composition board with painted mirror frame and a mirror with painted mirror frame. The mirror caught my attention and I wanted to know what it meant. For me I see it as a look at yourself, you are beautiful, you are your own painting, you are beautiful enough to be in this exhibition. Then I searched for more information and what I discovered is that the painting and the mirror were combined when Kahlo decided to give Fulang Chang and to her close friend, as a gesture of gratitude for a different painting Sklar purchased from the Levy show, Kahlo gave her this one, telling Sklar that she had added a mirror so that they could always be together.  Frida often painted her self portraits by looking in the mirror, the mirror included in Fulang Chang and I, gave me a sense of what it was like for Frida, like an open invitation to enter her work. We are invited to see ourselves and to enter her world

The Campbell’s soup can collecton by Andy Warhol was really interesting, who thinks about painting soup cans? I had to include this in my pictures. I was so curious to find out why soup cans and I found something really interesting. Soliciting suggestions for subjects to paint, he asked a friend, who suggested he choose something that everybody recognised like Campbell’s Soup. In a flash of inspiration he bought cans from the store and began to trace projections onto canvas. At this time he received a return studio visit from Irving Blum of Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, who was expecting to see comic-strip paintings and was surprised by the new soup cans. Everyone was surprised but it was a success.

After that I went to the Nan Goldin collection The Ballad of sexual dependency. I found this collection really interesting the pictures were extraordinary. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends, family, and lovers. The pictures are captured in intimate moments of love and loss. They experience ecstasy and pain through sex and drug use; they revel at dance clubs and bond with their children at home; and they suffer from domestic violence and the ravages of AIDS. The Photographs are really interesting, and if you take the time to look at them deeply, you will find the meaning in each one of them.

They currently have the Francis Picabia exhibition our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction is a comprehensive survey of Picabia’s audacious, irreverent, and profoundly influential work across mediums. This is the first exhibition in the United States to chart his entire career. His painting are beautiful. The exhibition aims to advance the understanding of Picabia’s relentless shape-shifting, and how his persistent questioning of the meaning and purpose of art ensured his iconoclastic legacy’s lasting influence.

Going to the MoMA was a whole adventure. From taking the path train to walking through the beautiful street of NY in such a cold day, to getting to the museum. Everything was so fun. It was even better with my best friend by my side. We went through the exhibitions, read, and took notes. It was really interesting to see the painting and different collections that they have. We took a lot of pictures a walked through every exhibition we could in the little time that we had. We both agreed that we definitely have to go again.

This Frida filter was the best :)