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This 7 page paper discusses the current exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); describes 3 works briefly and then goes into detail about Robert Moskowitz's painting "Eddystone." It also discusses critics and how they should review works. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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we understand it in the way he or she meant us to. Amazingly enough, though, we all tend to respond to artwork; very few people can walk through a
gallery without feeling some response to the displays. Art has an enduring power, and tells us a great deal about our society, since it tends to magnify and reflect
it. This paper discusses the current exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and concentrates on the painting "Eddystone" by Robert Moskowitz. The Exhibition
MoMA is currently exhibiting contemporary works; having obviously recognized that the Internet is not a passing fad, they have created an on-line exhibition that viewers can "walk" through without
leaving home. The one that Id like to discuss is in the "contemporary voices, Works from the UBS Art Collection" exhibit running from February 4 - April 25, 2005.
The artists represented include Claes Oldenburg, Frank Stella, Kiki Smith and Roy Lichtenstein, and the works range from whimsical to disturbing and even frightening. Much of the
power of art depends on the way in which its displayed, and since Im only considering what I can see on a computer monitor, Ive eliminated sculpture and concentrated on
the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly. The Works
There are three paintings that greatly affected me: "Dem unbekannten Mahler" ("To the unknown painter"), 1982, by Anselm Kiefer; "Prow" (1983) by Christopher LeBrun; and "Eddystone" (1984) by Robert Moskowitz.
All three are somber and dark, and "Prow" in particular is very unsettling. (I wish I could attach them all, but Ive only been able to find "Eddystone,"
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