I really enjoyed my visit to the MoMA. The Demoiselles exhibit was interesting because it really makes you pay attention to detail. The paintings looked like puzzles that you had to solve in your mind. I liked these 2 in particular:

Finding a woman in "Ma Jolie" was a tough task. The second one made me think of Mardi Gras.

Demoiselles d' Avignon is a painting that features five females in the nude. Each one is in a different position and all meet your gaze directly if you stare into the painting. It's an uneasy confrontation that engages the viewer like we discussed in class. Their bodies are very angular and strong, but nonetheless still feminine. It would have never occurred to me that these women were prostitutes from a brothel. I thought it was a bold painting celebrating the strength of women in their bare and natural state. The confrontation that can come across as uneasy is really effective here.

           Last Saturday I visited the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from high school to see the Demoiselles d'Avignon. I have to admit, I don't usually go to museums and artistic events with this friend so this was a new experience for the both of us. I did not have too much time to spend so I did not have the chance to see some of the other fascinating things that I passed on my way to Demoiselles d'Avignon. However, it was very fortunate knowing that we would return with our class to discuss some other paintings.

Last Friday I went to go see Georgia O'Keeffe's exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was fantastic. Earlier that day I had also gone to the Guggenheim to see Kandinsky's display but I found that I could not connect with it as well as I could with O'Keeffe's work.  In her collection, the main focus of her paintings were flowers.  Sometimes the image would be of a flower explicitly and other times it would be depicting more the essence of what a flower is.