An Afternoon at MoMA

I was in New York city a week ago on a school trip and, unfortunately, had the opportunity of attending MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art. Modern Art is something that I absolutely despise and simply can't respect. Don't get me wrong, there is the odd piece that I don't mind, and some of them, while I don't like the style, I can appreciate the process and message, but so much of it is just pure garbage. Take some these:

 Images taken from www.moma.org

From left to right: A Tree in Naples by Willem de Kooning, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack by Kazimir Malevich, and The Voice by Barnett Newman.

I do not consider works like these Art, and I certainly don't understand why any institution would force people to pay money to see them. There is no skill involved, no greater message, nothing! It's such a waste! 

An example of a piece that I don't like the style of, but can still appreciate is Pablo Picasso's Guernica. 

Image taken from http://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp

This piece is a "powerful political statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War." It's an overwhelming piece to look at upon first glance, but when you're able to dissect some of the individual parts, you can see pain, tragedy and injustice.

MoMA is full of blank canvases, scribbles and stuff that a 2 year old might have painted, as well as ridiculously pointless stuff like Yoko Ono's cough track and a video of a naked couple on a sofa passing a big ball back and forth. MoMA is full of stuff like this. It was an awful experience, and I really wish I hadn't had to waste half a day there.