Fridays are wonderful for countless reasons, one of which being that New York City's Museum of Modern Art is free on Friday afternoons!
It was jam packed inside but I was able to maneuver around the groups of people and have a good time. I made a beeline straight for the fifth floor, home to futurism, surrealism, and plenty of my favorite artists.
Frida Kahlo, “Fulang-Chang and I,” 1937.
Joan Miró, “Painting,” 1933.
René Magritte, “False Mirror,” 1928.
Marcel Duchamp, “Fresh Window,” 1920.
Henri Matisse, “Dance,” 1909.
Pablo Picasso, “Three Musicians,” 1921.
Claude Monet, “Water Lillies,” 1914-1926.
Piet Mondrian, “Broadway Boogie Woogie,” 1942-1943 and “Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow,” 1937-1942, respectively.
Fernand Léger, “Three Women,” 1921-1922.
There's an Edvard Munch exhibit featuring “The Scream” on until late April. It's a small exhibit, but “The Scream” is worth seeing if you've never seen it and since it's such a popular painting, you may just get his other works to yourself as I did tonight.
Edvard Munch, “The Scream,” 1895. This is just one of “The Scream” series which includes paintings, pastels, and lithographs.
Munch, “The Scream,” 1895.
Munch, “Self-Portrait,” 1895.
Munch was into vampires long before Twilight. “Vampire II,” 1895-1902.
As you may have already guessed, Munch had a dark and anxious personality with which he struggled for much of his life. This is apparent in the next several works in the exhibit.
Munch, “Jealousy,” 1896.
Munch, “Melancholy,” 1891.
Munch, “Two People: The Lonely Ones,” 1914-1917.
Munch, “Angst,” 1896.
My absolute favorite sculpture, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” by Umberto Boccioni, wasn't on display today much to my disappointment. They did have another of his sculptures, “Development of a Bottle in Space,” 1912.
I've got lots of other photos from the MoMA, but I'll let you see the rest of the art in person should you happen to find yourself in Manhattan on a Friday afternoon.