MOMA Collection
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MoMA’s evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art by over 10,000 artists. 69,000 works are available online.
Description
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) owns an important, evolving collection of modern and contemporary art from over 10,000 artists.61,000 works of art from the collection (from far back as 1850) have been organized, digitized and made available online for browsing, encompassing different areas, media and techniques, such as architecture, audio, collage, design, illustration, film, installation, painting, sculpture, performance, photography, video and textile.
The collection’s individual pieces represent different periods and movements, illustrating how art has transformed throughout time. The archive includes some of Maxime Du Camp’s archeological photography, a broad collection of drawings by Odilon Redón, José Guadalupe Posada, Pierre Bonnard and Geroges Seurat; paintings by James Ensor, Vincent van Gogh, Claude MOnet, Marlene Duma, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Francis Alÿs, encompassing all the vanguard movements: symbolism, abstract expressionism, hyper realism, pop art, etc. The collection also includes sculptures by Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Robert Gober, Chris Burden, Jeff Koons, and others; 1700 videos from artists such as Martha Rosler, Valie Export, PaoloCavenari, Harun Farocki, Gordon Matta Clark, and Vito Acconci, and textile art from Louis Bourgeois and George Brecht.
The website is also the main source of information on the museum’s activities in New York. The curatorial, preservation and research departments, as well as previous, future and current exhibits, books and catalogues published by the museum, interactive multimedia projects combining audio and video and links to specific project pages are also available for browsing online.
The MoMa Learning section provides educational resources for learning concepts in art, allowing students and non specialized audiences to understand art movements and themes in artistic expression through simple descriptions.
DADABASE is MoMA Library’s catalogue and research center with books, catalogues, archives, manuscripts, e-resources (web sites and databases) and periodicals available for reference.
Links
URL: http://www.moma.org/collection
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.moma.org/collection
Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoMA
