Frommer's EasyGuide to New York City 2014 by Pauline Frommer

Author:Pauline Frommer [Frommer, Pauline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781628870428
Publisher: FrommerMedia

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Though there are many masterworks in the museums, be sure you give yourself enough time for the following three highlights:

Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, which has an even more vivid impact when viewed in person, the thickness of the brush strokes making it as much sculpture as painting. Created a year before his suicide, when Van Gogh was in an insane asylum, the painting is filled with premonitions of what was to come, the foreground taken up with a soaring cypress tree, symbol of death.

Pablo Picasso’s Desmoiselles d’Avignon, a massive brothel scene in which Picasso experimented with a number of art styles—look closely and you’ll see that one of the women’s heads looks like an African mask, another profile is taken from Egyptian art, the woman in the middle assumes a classical Venus-like pose, and a leg of one of the figures devolves into cubist abstraction. Reportedly, Picasso painted the work when he was suffering from syphilis, which may be why the women appear so threatening.

Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory, in which watches melt and a long-nosed figure (some say it was a self portrait of Dali, others think it represents an unborn baby) lies prostate on the ground. You may be surprised at how small this seminal work is.

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