纽约现代艺术博物馆英语介绍.ppt

1、Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),纽约现代艺术博物馆,Coordinates: 404540N 735837W,The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the

2、 most influential museum of modern art in the world,History of MoMA,The Museum of Modern Art was establish(创建) in 1929. From 1929 to 1932,the MoMA moved three times . Museum didnt formally settled down in the current location until May 10 , 1932,the. The building was designed by Philip GE Edward Pri

3、nceton.,THE COLLECTIONS OF MoMA,Considered by many to have the best collection of modern Western masterpieces in the world Nowadays, MoMAs holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces in addition to approximately 22,000 films and 4 million film stills.Its amazing that so many great works of

4、arts from the 19th century to 21st century are house in the museum. The collection of Western art includess painting by such famous artists as Monst, Van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse.,The collection houses such important and familiar works as the following:,The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh The Slee

5、ping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau I and the Village by Marc Chagall The Dream (1910), by Henri Rousseau Les Demoiselles dAvignon by Pablo Picasso The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dal Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian Campbells Soup Cans by Andy Warhol Te aa no areois (The Seed of the Areoi) by

6、 Paul Gauguin Water Lilies triptych by Claude Monet The Dance by Henri Matisse The Bather by Paul Czanne The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni Love Song by Giorgio De Chirico Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock Vir Heroicus Sublimis by Barnett Newman Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman Flag by Jasper Johns

7、 Christinas World by Andrew Wyeth Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair by Frida Kahlo Painting (1946) by Francis Bacon Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale by Max Ernst,The Starry Night,Artist:Vincent van Gogh Date : 1889 Size : 73 92 cm,Les Demoiselles dAvignon,Author : Pablo Picasso Date : 1907

8、 Size : 244 x 234 cm,Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909,Henri Rousseau, La Bohmienne endormie (The Sleeping Gypsy Zingara che dorme), 1897,Paul Czanne, Bather, 18851887,现状：,2000年之后，现代艺术博物馆由于馆藏扩充甚多，原馆址亦需整修，遂开始了新建物的计划，该馆在2002年5月21日关闭，将部份馆藏迁往皇后区长岛市的一个旧钉书针工厂继续展览，称做MoMA QNS。2004年11月20日，由日本建筑师谷口吉生设计的新馆开幕，门票从美金12元调涨到20元，引起了不少争议。使它成为纽约市中最昂贵的博物馆之一。幸而该馆经美国Target连锁店赞助后，保持于每周五下午四点后，开放访客免费参观。谷口吉生的作品也在开馆时广受评论，除批评外观不过是一个中规中矩的现代建筑外，亦有不少人对馆内动线感到不满。 在新馆的花岗岩与玻