Chicago Modern Art Museum

Chicago Modern Art Museum

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is a highly esteemed and well known establishment, sometimes regarded as the most significant modern art museum on the globe. Its main focus is the collection and development of modern art, in which it has been remarkably successful. The museum’s present collection encompasses paintings, drawings, works of design and architecture, photography, sculpture, prints, film, illustrated and artists’ books as well as the electronic media. Additionally the museum possesses archives and a comprehensive library containing files on over 70,000 artists and more than 300,000 books in addition to a multitude of periodicals and artist books.

The museum features some of the most important works of renowned artists such as The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso, The Dream and The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, The Dance by Henri Matisse and Water Lilies by Claude Monet among many others.

Innovative exhibitions have been a particular forte of the Museum of Modern Art, with themes ranging from particular artists to the different schools and aspects of modern art. Recent exhibitions have featured such themes as the works of Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, who is considered to be one of the most original artists of his generation, with his work blurring the boundaries between photography, drawing, installation, sculpture and painting.

An exhibition titled ‘Picasso: Themes and Variations’ traces the development of Picasso’s art in the field of printmaking, including his works in the Blue and Rose phases through to his innovations in Cubism.

The intriguing exhibit titled ‘The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times’ chronicles the influence of mythology on art, and the role of mythology in the development of the creations of a wide cross-section of artists.

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By James V Cook

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