The Museum of Modern Art in New York hosts over 150,000 of items ranging from surrealistic paintings, through photography and movies to the objects connected with modern design and architecture.
It has been founded in 1929, and the renovation finished in 2004 held by Japanese architect Yoshio
Taniguchi doubled the exhibition space and put more light into the former building, making the museum space more comfortable for visitors to admire the art objects, which are grouped in several departments.
1880S TO 1940S PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
displays the works of post-impressionsts like Cezanne ( The Bather ), Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh ( Starry Night).
Surrealist Salvatore Dali is represented by one of his most famous masterpieces The Persistence of Memory (1931).
On this painting the clock dials change their substance into the swinging, half-liquid forms similar to the base of pizza, or large pancakes ready to be baked.
The collection hosts a great number of Cubists, including Pablo Picasso with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, that are a symbolic end of the old era of paintings linking to new forms introducing the rhythm, music and movement into the two-dimentional space.
Next there are items POSTWAR PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
Here you can experience the creations by Andy Warhol with famous Gold Marylin Monroe and Campbell’s Soup Cans.
DRAWINGS AND OTHER
WORKS ON PAPER
More than 7,000 artworks held here make it one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of modern drawings.
Highlights include works by Ernst, Schiele, Degas and Cezanne.
FILM AND VIDEO
MoMA climes to be the first museum with treats film on the same level as the recognized traditional art forms. With over 15,000 films and four million of film stills it is the largest international movie collection in the United States.
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Established in 1932 this was also the first curatorial department of its kind. The collection ranges from hockey masks to helicopters.
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019
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