Upon entering the 5th floor of the Museum of Modern Art your senses get overloaded. The first room alone holds so many masterpieces you just don’t know where to look!
Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Sky certainly was the biggest eyecatcher in the room and with reason!
I liked that painting so much, I couldn’t look away. The cypresses on the foreground,the curly painted sky, the luminated stars and moon, the pronounced houses and church….the whole painting breathes passion and, for some reason, secrecy. A night scene always has a certain atmosphere: private, quiet….I can’t quite put it into words.
The other highlights for me were the works of Jackson Pollock. Especially the ones in which he used the drip-technique are fascinating to see in real life. There is so much to see up close to the painting which doesn’t come across on a picture in a book. I tried to make some photographs of the thick layers of paint so you have an idea of how much texture the paintings have:
Notice there is actually a button in there! Why? No idea!
These Pollock paintings really come to life when viewed up close. And however simple and seemingly random they look, I don’t think I could reproduce anything like it. There’s more thought and feeling behind it than you can guess from first glance.
These were 2 highlights from Moma, there was so much more to see! Rousseau, Mattisse, Picasso, Kandinsky! My goodness….I’ll have to write about that another time, the internet in the hotel is too slow to upload all my pictures.
I do LOVE my new camera though, it’s so easy to take great photo’s it’s almost unbelievable!