One of the many museums I visited in Vienna was the MUMOK (full title above). It was a really great museum in the conglomeration of museums that make up MuseumsQuartier. The building itself if a piece of modern art. I started out on the top floor (their permanent collection) and then worked my way down to the bottom. On the way encountering, "Bad Painting, Good Art" an exhibit about artist who purposely used "bad" painting techniques to make a statement. And the other exhibit was "Mind Expanders", an exhibit about protest art, and all different kinds of city planing/inflatable/instillation art.
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Double Line and Blue (unfinished). While I do not usually like Mondrian's paintings, I did enjoy this one. Perhaps because it was "unfinished", as you can see in the second photo the boxes were not filled in to the edges, it gave it a raw, exposed feeling which appealed to me.
Alexej Jawlensky, Pink Vetch. It does not really come through in the photo, but in person there is an incredibly warm colored amber light that comes from the painting, I also liked the more abstract brushstrokes.
Oto Gutfreund, Viki. The style of this sculpture reminds me of a style of animation that is used in Japan.
Richard Gerstl, The Schönberg Family. Gerstl painting above has the ability to draw you in. I kept looking at this painting from different distances and angles. It had an effect similar to the pointillism used in George Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte.
Eric Olson, Optochromy H. This was one of my favorite pieces in the museum. It was made of two pieces of laser etched glass, which gives it a polarized quality. As you can see in the bottom photo, from the side they look like two pieces of tinted glass, but as you across the front, the two pieces line up to form two blue rectangles and the rest is blacked out. There are a million different ways of percieving this piece since it changes as you move across it.
These are some posters that were created by Viennese design firms.
Paul Klee, Scarecrow.
Francis Picabia, Portrait of a Woman. This is the first photo of the "Bad Painting, Good Art" exhibit. The portrait it self was nothing special to me, what really intrigued me was the "finish" over it. You may have to zoom in order to really see it, but it seems as if after Picabia finished the portrait he covered the whole painting with a fine coat of wax and then baked it so that it all beaded up, the reason she looks part leopard.
Neil Jenny, Girl and Doll and Man and Mirage. I liked the simplicity of this series. Also, note how the figure was sketched out roughly in pencil in the close up of the man.
Francis Picabia, Maternity. There was an intense warmth that came from the mothers shawl, especially in contrast to the midnight blue in the background.
Francis Picabia, Nude in Front of a Landscape
André Butzer, Pluton. This looked like some take on Steamboat Willie era Mickey Mouse.
Werner Büttner, On Evil VI.
Julian Schnabel, Painting without Mercy. This one was a really neat mixed media piece. Schnabel covered the canvas with whole and broken plates, bowls. and pottery before painting.
John Currin, Thanksgiving.
Hans Hollein, Architecture Pill. This is where the "Mind Expanders" exhibit started. I took a picture of this one because I would like to take an architecture pill and be really good at designing buildings!
These moch-ups reminded of the waterfalls that were in NYC this past summer.
Hans-Rucker-Co., Yellow Heart. This artist conglomeration, had a bunch of pieces at the museum. They worked in really neat inflatable structures. Im pretty sure they even created inflatable structures for a world expo.
Hans-Rucker-Co., Air-Spa Hotel. They also had fun layover mock-ups of their structures over existing buildings.
Friederike Pezold, Mundwerk.
Maria Abramovic, Breathing in - Breathing out. I thought it was interesting how the photo was used twice to represent two different actions resulting in a different interaction (as stated in the poem) every time.
Maria Lassnig, Chair.
Valie Export, Body Sign C.
Birgit Jürgenssen, Apron. These last two were some examples of the very visual social stances of the artists. I strongly suggest visiting MUMOK if you are visiting Vienna. It had a really great mix of modern art that kept things fresh.
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