Showing posts with label Sculpture Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sculpture Garden. Show all posts

Thursday, October 13, 2011

The sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art

By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Editor


On my last day in New York, I finally got to the Museum of Modern Art.  I never miss a visit to MOMA.  I was especially eager to see the huge Willem de Kooning retrospective, and it did not disappoint.  The number of canvases and drawings was just astounding--from early students drawings and paintings to works he created in old age.  I was especially knocked out by his 50's post "Women Series" paintings, where he took his abstraction to a new level.  Those paintings are just gorgeous and kinetic.


Since it was such a warm day, I spent my last half hour in the sculpture garden.


Aristide Maillol. The River.

 
One of my favorite Joan Miro sculptures - Moonbird

Pablo Picasso's She Goat

 Auguste Rodin (you know, The Thinker guy) - Monument to Balzac

Alberto Giacometti - Standing Woman

Max Ernst  - The King Playing with the Queen

Katharina Fritsch. Figurengruppe (Group of Figures). I think this
is new--at any rate I didn't remember it.

Henry Moore - Family Group

Yoko Ono's Wish Tree (with contributions by many others)

Auguste Rodin again - Saint John the Baptist Preaching
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