Accidental Art

During the Thanksgiving break, I went to The Museum of Modern Art. It is a famous art museum that stands in the middle of NYC. Among all of the fantastic modern art works, I found a special view at a corner near the Impressionism part. It was actually a big normal glass next to many masterpieces on the fourth floor. Although the glass was not noticeable, the accidental art that was framed by the glass was pretty amazing to me.

It was a huge glass from bottom to the top of the wall. A piece of thick brown blind warded behind it. Through the gaps between those horizontal lines of the blind, a part of New York was exhibited in front of me. I regarded this special art work as a picture. The left part of it were many classical buildings with the typical New York style. Some of them were short and old fashion departments, and others were the modern offices. Posters, advertisements, and hundreds of dark green glasses that reflected the shining light. Different colours of traffic lights looked like some tiny dots that produced by an skilful oil painter. The painter hold his wild brush, and swung it in front of the canvas. Those colourful dots were involuted, but also kept in some special orders at the same time because of those city designers. Apparently, the painting of NYC could never be a still life. It was full of movements. Everyone knows the yellow cabs’ position in New York. At the bottom of this painting, many yellow rectangles rushed on the grey street. Pedestrians come and go; they twisted their ways though the cabs, and each of them made the painting even more energetic.

The right part of the painting was what I liked the most. It was a building stand right opposite of MOMA. It had little wall, and most part of that side were glasses. Therefore, everything in it can be seen by its audiences. It was an office building, but its decoration style was very modern. Furnitures were mostly white with a little red, beige, and green. The first floor of it had a huge sofa in the middle. Some greens were put around the sofa. Desks were the protagonists in the second floor; it seemed like a meeting room. Hundreds of files were collected together in different shapes of boxes. The third floor was more like their dining hall with red food bars and white chairs. Each floor had different arrangement, but they all took simplicity to extreme. In my point of view, that building can be regard as the counterpart of many New Yorkers’ lives. It used its own way to show the visitors in MOMA what is the other side of the modern art.

Buildings, streets, and decorations. The fantastic glass mixed three elements harmoniously.  It lived in Modern Art Museum, and it was indeed an accidental art. Art is from life, and this special art work made me realise the different two faces of art. Our cities were built by hundreds of talented designers who were graduated from the professional design school. However, sometimes the quintessences of art may be actually excavated from the cities that we live in. This is a circulation of the endless inspiration.