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I had the pleasure of visiting the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Wednesday. It truly is a wonderful museum, albeit a bit expensive. I loved how open it was, it really felt much more modern than many of the other museums I had been to recently. There seemed to be a great balance between paintings, and sculptures like the one pictured here.
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The museum was very spacious, you never felt claustrophobic. Like many other museums, they used white or pastels on the walls so as not to distract from the paintings themselves.
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I was impressed with the number of famous paintings found in the MoMA. Everywhere you looked, it seemed like another room dedicated to a famous artist. This painting is Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'arignon."
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One of my favorite paintings, this is also painted by Picasso. It is "Three Musicians."
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It seems like every museum must have at least one Jackson Pollock painting in order to consider themselves a proper museum! I forgot to write down which one this was, but I believe it is "Number 2." If my memory serves me, "Number 1" was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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I had never seen an Andy Warhol painting up close, so this was a treat. I loved the strange use of color scheme here.
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Another Andy Warhol painting, each can of soup is a different type. While a bit strange, it certainly didn't help that my girlfriend and I were starving when we saw it! Unfortunately, we didn't want to pay $17 for a bistro sandwich upstairs, so we went hungry for a little while!
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I was extremely surprised when my girlfriend pointed out this painting to me. It is Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night." This painting is without a doubt my favorite work of art... I even have a copy hanging in my room! I was absolutely elated that I got to see it in person, and it made the entry fee completely worthwhile. I would go back to the MoMA just to see this painting again. I will say though, it was much smaller than I thought it would be, only about three feet by two feet.
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Amazingly, it seems I just can't get away from George Stubbs! This is a sign I noticed while walking back to the train station. I would have stopped in, but I was rushing to catch my train. It's funny that the artist that I did my first paper on has come back to haunt me so many times!
Overall, the MoMa is a wonderful museum that is worth the time and money to visit, although I'll still take the MET almost every time!