Modern Art - My Favorite Pieces

This week really opened up my eye into Modern art since I really never studied or looked at it.

In my last blog post most of my works I choose were so dark and grim, while this weeks are full of color and meaning.

That why I especially love the first piece Woman with a Parasol by Henri Matisse. We briefly looked at in class but out of all the Matisse slides this is the one that stuck with me. I love the negative space and the colors and how these small colorful brush strokes create this beautiful elaborate painting. I am dying to see this in person. I really cant get over the style in which he wanted it.

My next favorite was Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. I think how radical the picture is with they style of cubism but at the same time its so traditional since it is a girls portrait. The colors are so striking and so is the depth through the mirror. The many faces of the women two are just amazing, almost catching different personalties of her.

My all time favorite artist that we covered this week was Salvador Dali. I have seen his work before and I am so intrigued at how surreal it is. Nothing makes sense, yet it does. The imagery and scenes he create can cause you to get completely lost in the work and have no idea what you are looking at. I love the sense of confusion I get from it. I can stare at the same painting multiple times and get a different perspective and emotion from it. There is something about how I connect with his work that just drives me mad. Its beautiful and striking at the same time. My favorite is Shades of Night Coming Down. Its an amazing oil piece that just shows how deep the picture is and how you can put so little on it and it could mean so much.

My Favorite Art Pieces

So before taking this class I really did not sit down and say to myself "Hey, what is my favorite painting?". I think I never really had an interest in it. I do love going to museums and appreciate art but I think for me it was just something that was always in the back of my head.

Now thinking about it I could name a few that I love, some of which I just saw in class that totally blew my mind. But before that, last year when Tim Burtons exhibit was at the MOMA I had to go. Im a huge fan of all his work and know I would love his pieces just as much

Here is one of my favorites that capture some of his character sketch's

I just love how dark the characters are but at the same time some of them are so colorful. 

When we where going through the slides a couple of paintings had caught my eye. 

This one for some reason has stayed with me since. There is just something about the lighting and the colors how dark, eerie and colorless the dancers look really caught my attention. It is a painting my Degas and I am now dying to go see it in person 

From the look of all of these I just love darker scenary I guess, something about it just drives me in. Not in the color sense but in the feeling and I get some weird feeling looking at the dancers and the man in the back. It really just stuck with me.

Another painting I absolutely love is by Picasso in his Blue Period called La Vie

Again for me I think the way the picture makes me feel emotionally, sad but intrigued at the same time is what really grabs my attention. Actually I could just go on and post all of his work from the Blue Period because all of it is my favorite. Who knows maybe one day Ill buy one..........


One of my favorite artists before coming to the class was Monet. When I was in California a few years ago we went to a museum that was exhibiting some of the water lilies and I was just so intrigued by them. They made me feel so relaxed and washed out, the feeling  I get when I see them is just one of tranquility. So my last painting that I wanted to share that I love is by him, I dont know what it is about it something in it just takes me to a happier place where I want to sit and read a book and listen to the water.