Wednesday, December 26, 2012

we saw this car crash on our way home from church

we saw this car crash on our way home from church
car crash photo
Image by Newbirth35
December 12, 2009


we saw this car crash on our way home from church
car crash photo
Image by Newbirth35
December 12, 2009


Day 346/365 - we saw this car crash on our way to church
car crash photo
Image by Newbirth35
December 12, 2009


NYC - MoMA: Andy Warhol's Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times
car crash photo
Image by wallyg
Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times, 1963
Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on two canvases, Overall 8' 9 7/8" x 13' 8 1/8" (268.9 x 416.9 cm)
Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987

Gift of Philip Johnson

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.

MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA's Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists.


NYC - MoMA: Andy Warhol's Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times
car crash photo
Image by wallyg
Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times, 1963
Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on two canvases, Overall 8' 9 7/8" x 13' 8 1/8" (268.9 x 416.9 cm)
Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987

Gift of Philip Johnson

*

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.

MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA's Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists.

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