The Gallery
Portrait of Joseph Roulin
Portuguese Market
Drowning Girl
Gas
The Persistence of Memory
Marilyn Monroe
Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
Propellers
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum, It is important in developing and collecting modernist art. It is one of the most outstanding museums of modern art in the world.
Not So long ago, it came to Melbourne, at the NGV museum, It is a must-see visual and artistic feast.
Let's go and have a look!
This portrait of Joseph Roulin is one of six that van Gogh painted of his close friend, a postal employee in the southern French town of Arles. In 1888, van Gogh moved to Arles, Van Gogh found comfort and companionship with the Roulin family, and they became the subjects of many of his most important paintings.
This work created in 1915 and it is abstract painting. In August 1915, the Sonia Delaunay-Terk and her friend moved to Portugal, In that period, she finished this colorful work in Portugal, which she later say 'inspired by the beauty of the country'
This is a painting on oil paintings and synthetic polymer paint. Using the conventions of comic art, the thought bubble conveys the character's thought.
The picture shows a woman in tears on the turbulent sea. She was depressed and seemed to come from romance.
A thought bubble says: "I don't care! I'd rather sink - than ask brad for help!"
It is a Oil on canvas. It depicts an American gas station at the end of a highway. The subject was a composite of several gas stations Hopper had visited.
The highway apparently ends here, disappearing into the woods. The last car seems to have passed long ago. The attendant is shutting down the pump, and soon will turn off the lights and lock up for the night.
The art-work shows ritter bay at dawn. The view is simple: the sea appears deep, with small rocks to the right. The painting represents a dreamlike scene, an expanded space, objects connected in an unfixed form. These timekeeper, like memories, soften over time.
Light plays an important role in this painting, contributing to a dreamlike sense of disorientation.
The silk-screening process was used while creating this painting. Warhol used a woven mesh and stencils to transmit paint onto the canvas. The repetitive images seem alike at first sight, but on further consideration, the shades are changing because of the oil and paints, which gives it a new perception
This work of Piet Mondrian is well-known as the abstract painting. Black lines clearly define the boundaries of geometric shapes of other colors.
“Pure abstract art becomes completely emancipated, free of naturalistic appearances” Piet Mondrian, 1929
Purism which is a more refined version of cubism. Purism is like cubism in that it also creates things out of shapes. Leger was one of the first artists to combine the two.
This art-work Also known as the Propellers 2nd state, this painting is a cubist style work, through a more abstract painting style to show the propeller in different forms.