The painting I have picked is Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, which was done on oil canvas, in 1889. I'm not really familiar with Van Gogh's work, but this is one piece of work of his that stands out to me. Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is an excellent painting in which Van Gogh paints a...

The Museum of Modern Art, also known as MoMA, was the first museum to devote its collection entirely to the modern movement. The museum was founded in 1929 by three public citizens, Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The works in the museum collection date from the 1...

Modern art is a unique creation all it's own, and since its beginnings, there have been two very distinct groups: the Formalists and the Avant-Garde. The Formalist group believes in the literal representation of the artwork. They value the form used, whether it be how the colors are stressed or th...

"On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally 'in' the painting." These are the words of the great 1940s artist Jackson Pollack, a commanding figure in the Abstract Expressionist mov...

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Brabant, Holland in 1853. His 'bizarre' sense of colour disallowed his access to any art school. It was however this unique 'impressionism' that made his work so popular and valuable to this very day. Van Gogh moved to Paris later on in his life to join his brothe...

• Abstract Expressionism: Process of trial and error motivated by aesthetic goals, new reps of emotions, and state of mind, styles evolved as they worked. Non-geometric shapes, Jungian philosophy that certain myths and beliefs are repeated in different societies at different times • Post world ...

The atmosphere in the Museum of Modern Art was very tranquil - the lights aren't too bright, and the wall itself looked like a piece of artwork. I'd been walking around the museum for a while and I finally saw a painting that was what I'd been expecting to find. It was located in a big room with ...