MoMA Art: Part 1

A few weeks a go, my mother and I went to the Museum of Modern Art on one of their "Target Free Fridays", which means that if you go anytime after 4pm on a Friday, admission is free. Pretty neat! The one downside is that it's really crowded.

Now, before we get into it, I would like to say that I do not know much about art. I know what some of the styles are and how the pieces in that style are similar (impressionist, surrealist, cubist), I know the big names, but that's about it. I don't consider myself an art lover or enthusiast, not that I wouldn't like to be one. It just hasn't happened yet.

So anyways, when we went to MoMA, I wrote down the names of the paintings I liked the most. I didn't (at least not consciously) decide this through thinking which took the most skill to do, just which hit me for some reason. This post will show some of the art I enjoyed. Let's begin:

The Menaced Assassin - René Magritte

Phantom of the Past - Kurt Seligmann

Dr. Mayer-Hermann - Otto Dix

The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse - George Grosz

The Birth of the World - Joan Miró

Umbrella and Bowler - Fernand Léger

The Duo - Giorgio de Chirico


More will be posted at some other time. Any of you out there like any of these pieces or want to share some of your favorites? Comment below or send an email at wearefriendspodcast@gmail.com

-James

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