10. September 2004, 23:59

I have visited today the exhibition of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)! It is very popular here. Over 1 million people have already been there in half a year. So, I also wanted to be there before the exhibition will be over in ten days.

But because it is so popular, it isn't as easy to get in. You have to queue in front of the building very long. Well, I have waited about three and a half hour, before I could see the first paintings. Fortunately, at least the weather was warm and sunny.

In this exhibition you can see several of the world's most famous and most influential paintings. From Picasso to Warhol, from Matisse to Pollock - and many, many others.

My highlight of that exhibition was, besides Cezanne, Munch and Van Gogh, especially the "Water Lillies" by Claude Monet, which you can see in small left above here. In reality it is about two meters high and over 12,5 meters long! I like the work of Monet very much - how he could create such a kind of atmosphere just of colors. You can really get drowned in that painting.

This was a real great exhibition. But I really wondered, why you have to queue so long for it, because there were in Berlin several other exhibitions, which were as same interesting, but you could get in without so long waiting.

Well, nevertheless, after over four hours, I was in there, I left the exhibition, right before it was closed for this day at midnight.


Here some highlights of the exhibition:

"The Starry Night", 1889 by Vincent van Gogh

"Dance (first version)", 1909 by Henri Matisse

"Boy Leading A Horse", 1906 by Pablo Picasso

"One (Number 31)", 1950 by Jackson Pollock

"Drowning Girl", 1963 by Roy Lichtenstein

"Reclining Nude", 1919 by Amedeo Modigliani