“Days is a “sound sculpture” consisting of a continuous stream of seven voices reciting the days of the week in random order.”

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Drawing @ MoMA

As my girlfriend and I were enjoying Orozco’s suspended whale, we noticed a boy proceed to the center of the atrium and begin to draw.

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Rose & Diamond

Rose clock

Diamond clock

White clocks with faceted elements referencing the forms of both a rose and a diamond. Designed by Shinichi Sumikawa

Rose clock can be purchased via MoMA Store

Cy Twombly — Leda and the Swan

Cy Twombly — Leda and the Swan (Oil, pencil, and crayon on canvas, 1962)

Interest in the mural form was widespread among the Abstract Expressionists, who often worked on a scale far larger than that of most easel paintings. Twombly, a member of a younger generation, transposed that interest in the wall into a different register: no painter of his time more consistently invites association with the language of graffiti. His scrawled calligraphic markings may recall the automatic writing of Surrealism, another inheritance passed on to him through Abstract Expressionism, but they also evoke the scratches and scribbles on the ancient walls of Rome (his home since 1957).

Rome supplies another touchstone for Twombly through his fascination with classical antiquity. Here he refers to the myth in which Jupiter, lord of the gods, took the shape of a swan in order to ravish the beautiful Leda. (This violation ultimately led to the Trojan War, fought over Leda’s daughter Helen.) Twombly’s version of this old art-historical theme supplies no contrasts of feathers and flesh but an orgiastic fusion and confusion of energies within furiously thrashing overlays of crayon, pencil, and ruddy paint. A few recognizable signs—hearts, a phallus—fly out from this explosion. A drier comment is the quartered, windowlike rectangle near the top of the painting, an indication of the stabilizing direction that Twombly’s art was starting to take.

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Cy Twombly — Untitled I

Cy Twombly — Untitled I (Rubber stamp, crayon, graphite, and ink on paper, 1972)

Willem de Kooning — Women I

Willem de Kooning — Women I (Oil on canvas, 1950-52)

Brancusi @ MoMA

Brancusi set-up @ the MoMA.  His work is an inspiration to both my art as well as the way I dress.

Andrew Wyeth — Christina’s World

Andrew Wyeth — Christina’s World (Tempera on gessoed panel, 1948)

This is one of the most beautiful paintings I’ve seen. The themes of isolation and fragility paired with the skilled and meticulous rendering of the landscape makes for a wonderfully meditative viewing experience.

Kazimir Malevich — Painterly Realism. Boy with Knapsack – Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension

Kazimir Malevich — Painterly Realism. Boy with Knapsack – Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension (Oil on canvas, 1915)

Max Ernst — Lunar Asparagus

Max Ernst — Lunar Asparagus (Plaster, 1935)

I’m back from NY and I had a wonderful time. I’ll be posting a lot of images from my trip. This is from the MoMA.