Taking time to explore, digest and appreciate the art from The Museum of Modern Arts was a pretty neat experience for me. This was my first time walking into the building and right away my eye was caught looking at some unique work of arts. There was so much paintings, photographs,sculptures and even installations. It was definitely a challenge trying to search for artwork and trying to compare it with its identity, culture, and historical time and place.
The first piece of art that caught my eye was Felix Gonzalez Torres's Paper structure. There was nothing fancy about it to be honest. It was simply paper shaped into very sharp looking cone spikes. Some spikes would be long some of medium sized and a couple of tiny spikes. Immediately I couldn't help but make a video game joke and comparison to Mortal Kombat because of the pointy features, but I digress. I've decided to compare this artwork with Felix Gonzalez Torres's identity because one reason he was inspired to create this was due to the AIDS outbreak epidemic that took the art community by storm as it did the rest of the world. It's unfortunate that he ended up passing away because of the disease, so what i get from the paper structure is image and message on how dangerous it comes across. Just how AIDS still dangerously run a muck in today's time.
The second work of art I've chosen was "Bleeding Takari II" by El Anatsui. It's most definitely among the oddest pieces of art I have come across while in the museum. It was made with aluminum and copper wire which is pretty impressive. While intelligently incorporating liquor bottle caps and seals thrown away by Nigerian distilleries. El Anatsui created this piece because of the consumer habits and historical times of colonialism in not only in his home residence but his nation of Nigeria. I instantly started to see why he made the visual of the "Bleeding Takari II" look like it was bleeding. He was comparing his art work to the tough times of Nigeria.
Lastly, the final creation of art that I picked was Constantin Brancusi's "Mile Pagony". The bronze version of the sculpture really had me intrigued, that I wanted to search its cultural background. The purpose of the sculpture was to seek or get the message across that not only the impression of truth that a figure is a part of its environment, but its atmosphere and environment flows through the figure and vice versa. This was an old philosophy in Greek culture, although trying to convey the message through stone, wood, bronze is new. While Greek philosophers thought there was no point to this, it doesn't stop the artist from at least attempting.
While there was a ton of artwork i could have chosen to get these points across, it's those three that reached out to me the most from the short amount of time at The Museum of Modern Arts. You get to see how the artist can tell a story through his creations. Whether it's about his personal identity, cultural background or even the historical time of a nation. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience and looking forward to the next trip to savor more works of art.
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