Art and Identity: The Museum of Modern Art

        On a recent visit to the Museum of modern Art (MoMA), I took a tour of the museum, during the tour to discover the works from the contemporary gallery exhibit that showed works from the 1980s to now and the Cindy Sherman exhibit. This museum has a great variety of different collections. I found three pieces of art that expressed a sense of personal, cultural and historical identity.
     
        The first piece of art that caught my eyes is the portrait of Cindy Sherman. She used personal photos to express herself. Cindy adopts several roles and identities depending on their conditions. Her work encourages self-reflection in the spectator. In the 1980s, Sherman introduced bright light and high-contrast color to her work. Moving away from established female stereotypes seen in the Untitled Film Stills series, she begins to deal with topics such as eating disorders, madness and death, focusing on the consequences of society’s stereotyped roles for women rather than upon the roles themselves.
     

       The second piece of art that I have chosen is related to cultural identity by the American artist Andrea Zittel that she was born in California in 1965. She is most closely associated with the remarkable ideal structures she calls living systems, which, in different ways, explore what we humans need for our survival. Andrea Zittel’s projects are deeply rooted in her own everyday life and her work explores into many different fields such as architecture, painting, photography, design, textiles, needlework and cooking. The” wall sprawl” expresses Zittel’s view of human progress as a rapid takeover of the natural, and the changing cultural background of the West.

      
        The third piece was about the historical identity, for this matter I have chosen an art work by George Condo. He studied Art History and Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. The first public exhibitions of his work took place in New York City at various East Village galleries in 1981.She uses color illustration  in her art work and  as an artist Andrea  has engaged vigorously with design, and architecture.
       

      In conclusions, these three artists create different art work, using different ideas.Which make audience use their imagination to understand the deep meaning behind their art work, and receive the artist’s ideas about personal, historical and cultural identity in the contemporary society. 




Cindy Sherman

"Untitled"

Chromogenic color print

2008

 Andrea Zittel

"The wall Sprawl"

Multiple of wallpaper

2008

George Condo

"Diaries of Milan"

Oil on canvas

1984