“Art and Identity: The Museum of Modern Art”

                                     “Art and Identity: The Museum of Modern Art”
          Art is a mirror of the emotions, feelings and identity of an artists. On our trip to the MoMa we were asked to find pieces that embodied Individual, cultural and historical identity. Identity is what defines us, separates us from one another makes something or someone unique from another.

         The first piece I would like to talk about is piece by Cindy Sherman “untitled #92” made in 1982 on chromogenic color print. This piece i feel embodies individual identity in the artist and in the actual work. Cindy Sherman is famous for being both the photographer and the model for most of her work. In this piece which stood out to me because of her piercing eyes, the vibrant colors, the positioning and the emotion. Cindy’s work uniquely embodies emotion through the eyes and positions and situations she puts her self in, her work is very poetic in a way that it can be interpreted in multiple way. I feel this work identifies Cindy as an artist and separate her from other photographers.
The second piece I loved and I have a bias for cause I'm familiar with the artist and I adore a lot of his work is Keith Haring’s piece “untitled 1982” completed in 1982 and is ink on two sheets of paper. Keith Haring was a pop artist, social activist he demonstrated for aids awareness drug awareness and anti-apartheid. His pieces are very primal, tribal yet very urban and simple. His piece i feel embodies cultural identity, the cultural activist pop cultural of the 1980s. A lot of the art that i like and that I’m familiar with from the 1980s were very primal and urban like haring and Basquiat. I feel there pieces defined the art cultural of the 1980. In “untitled 1982” the work is animalistic, cartoonish graffiti style very sexual and full of humor. The cultural significance behind the piece with all the sexual visuals and the aids epidemic in the 1980s i feel is what makes this piece.
The third and final piece I will talk about “Untitled film still #3” made in 1977  black and white film. This piece I feel embodies historical identity. I feel it has historical identity not because of the black and white film but because I feel it gives a glimpse into a particular time the datedness of the clothes and hair the physical objects like the soaps and salt containers, the pots and cabinets I feel it gives a glimpse into what a woman in the late 1970s looked like and was expected to do.
All the pieces can be interpreted by individual identity especially of the artist that created them were very distinct. All three have cultural significance definitely the Haring piece and Sherman “Untitled film still#3”. I Feel they all have Historical identity these pieces are all stand out pieces of there time and will be remembered especially by me. Identity is our uniqueness it separates us and helps us to define us but also allows us to see similarities.

Cindy Sherman
"Untitled film still #3"
1977
black and white film

Cindy Sherman
"Untitled #92"
1982
Chromogenic color print
Kieth Haring
"untitled 1982"
1982
Ink on two sheets of paper