Purple Bliss (:

And I just love love love what we did today.
We went to MoMA.
Manhattan Museum of Modern Art ;)
One of the places I could only dream of going after watching an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Now, one of my dreams has come true (:
One word to sum up the place?
Cool. Damn Cool.



We just spent our entire afternoon there.
This time round, we could understand the artworks better because we rented some commentary device.
So there were certain sculptures or paintings that we could stop at, admire, and hear the commentary simultaneously.

We headed to the Contemporary Art section first.
Do you know?
They change the art pieces there at least once every year.
Because it is Contemporary Art.
Haha.
So the art pieces can only stay Contemporarily.
It’s that literal.





Let me just share some of the interesting stuff we saw.
Remember Jackson Pollock?
Saw his artwork at the Metropolitan museum too.
Well, these here are by him as well.
He is fond of just using bold lines.
And instead of using an easel, he prefers to put his canvases on the floor or the wall as he paints.
Or splash rather.
Pretty bold stuff he does.
Rather interesting (:





Ohh! And at the contemporary art section, I saw my favourite (:
It’s a collection piece entitled “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried”
By Carrie Mae Weems.
She did the collection to showcase the plight of African Americans back then.
Try to read the words on the pictures.
Very very interesting :)











Gina’a favourite is this somewhat spooky film by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, entitled “The Wind”.
Its really damn cool can.
Its like there are 3 videos shown concurrently.
Each showing different images.
Disjointed pictures.
Its like for example,
One will be showing the lady cutting up cloth
The other showing her totally messed up apartment.
And the last showing another messed up corner of her apartment.
Its really damn eerie man…
Very disturbing.
Its really -madness-
Haha, that was Gina typing by the way.

We saw another video at the Contemporary Art section.
It was Beautiful yet Disturbing.
The Sublime.
Haha. It showed a young lady, wearing a sundress and all.
Very proper, carrying a flower like stick.
She was just walking down a lane.
With her hair flowing in the wind, not caring about the world.
But when she walked pass a car, she suddenly used the stick to smash its windows.
And then the music is interrupted by the sound of glass shattering.
I recorded this video.
But since I don’t know how to upload videos.
I can’t show you guys!
I really like this particular video (:
Eerie.

These are some more works by Pablo Picasso.
:)





And Vincent Van Gogh’s famous, “Starry Night”.



Pop art!
Famous works by the artist Andy Warhol.
Famous for his pop art works.
I actually got to see them right before my eyes.
After being shown some photos by my secondary school art teacher.
And gothic literature teacher.
(:





I can’t remember who did this.
But remember this?
(*to my classmates)
We were shown this picture during one of our lit periods.



I thought this was really interesting too.
A soft sculpture.
Cause sculptures are usually solid hard right.
But this one is different.
It’s a soft sculpture of a phone.
Perhaps depicting the decline of domestic phones replaced by the fast emergence of cellular phones.
Haha, soon, every household will not have any common home phone.
Everyone will just call each other’s hand phone.
But, that’s only my interpretation ;)



Ohh! And there’s this one.
A cup covered with fur.
You know how irritating it is when a strand of hair gets into your mouth right.
You will just get so engrossed with taking it out of your mouth; you stop talking and just maybe forget about what you were talking about altogether.
So, according to the commentary, the artist was trying to depict a tea party, which didn’t involve talking.
Which, defeats the purpose of having a tea party actually.
Interesting stuff huhh?



And we actually got to see the artwork “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali.
I thought it was going to be a reasonably sized potrait.
But no. It was puny.
Haha, so funny to say PUNY after being overwhelmed the entire trip by HUMONGOUS stuff.
Other than appreciating the melted clocks.
I was wondering to myself.
It was so puny, yet he was able to capture soo many details in this portrait!
Brilliant you know.
Can u imagine how small his paintbrush must be?
Even punnier than the puny.
Haha.





It was really exciting for us to view works of famous artists right before our very eyes (:
A memory we will keep and defnitely treasure for a lifetime :)

I couldn’t leave MoMA without a souvenir.
So I got this!
I will keep it with the rest of my Mugs (:



So, after it closed at 5.30pm, we headed to Chinatown to have our dinner.
Gina and I were craving for porridge.
And Joey wanted to have Fried Rice.
In the end, we were so hungry, we just settled for a convenient diner.
Gina had Roast Duck Rice.
Joey had Roast Pork Lo Mien.
And I had Roast Pork and Chicken Rice.

(: MoMA.
I was living a dream.