I'm not the biggest fan of classical music so I was not enthusiastic about the performance, but I do hold an appreciation and respect for the performers and their abilities to play such difficult music. To me classical music, especially being a string quartet, has a peaceful and soothing sound to it. It places me in a relaxing atmosphere where I can forget about everything and just stare at the performers and follow the bows move against the strings to create the beautiful music.

My first trio to the Museum of Modern Art was an eye-opening experience. While I had seen many of Pablo Picasso’s works in books and other sources, I had never seen his pieces in person. Standing in front of Les Demoiselles D’Avignon was a very different experience than seeing a photograph of it on the Internet. It’s life-like size brought a realistic aspect to the painting that I had not yet considered.

           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.

 My second trip to the MOMA today was more enlightening then the last since I realized the necessity of having background information. Previously I had passed by the Picasso painting of Ma Jolie while not believing it to be such a masterpiece. However, today when we stood before it and analyzed how it actually represented a woman playing a guitar, I appreciated the art more extensively. Professor Bergman revealed how Picasso had stripped the woman and guitar into dispersed fragments. Hence, to view the subject one had to piece together the parts through deep concentration.

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.