{"id":359,"date":"2026-07-12T21:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/?p=359"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:52:45","slug":"thomas-blogpost-3-the-moma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/2026\/07\/12\/thomas-blogpost-3-the-moma\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas – BlogPost #3 – The MoMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of us know, Vincent van Gogh’s <\/span>The Starry Night<\/span><\/i> is pretty popular. I had seen it countless times, especially online. I even saw it on the wall at a friend\u2019s house when I was invited home for thanksgiving.\u00a0 Before visiting the MoMA, I thought I already knew everything about it. Because I am familiar with the image, I assumed seeing the original painting would not feel much different. I guess I was wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First of all my perspective of the art changed completely when I saw many groups of visitors trying to see and take photographs of the original art. In my mind I was like, but we see this daily online, in homes and offices. But then I reminded myself that this was actually the painting that Van Gogh created in 1889. Then, my attention got drawn even more. I realized I was not looking at a digital image or a printed reproduction at that point, I was experiencing the artwork itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0From a look, the texture seemed thick, well layered, and well colored. At least different from the reproductions I have seen in the past and even at the gift shop.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In class last week, due to poor sound quality, I struggled to fully understand John Berger\u2019s video as he explained his ideas on art reproductions and how they make artwork more accessible. However, the few I was able to grasp seemed really interesting, and experiencing both original and reproduction art at the MoMA made the ideas much more clearer and meaningful. Although I initially learned about <\/span>The Starry Night<\/span><\/i> through reproductions, the original painting had a presence that my experience with printed images had never captured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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After I left the gallery and walked into the museum gift shop, I immediately noticed <\/span>The Starry Night<\/span><\/i> everywhere. Of course it is popular. The painting appeared on notebooks, postcards, tote bags, puzzles, and other souvenirs. Then I fully understood that the reproductions do not replace the original. Instead, they allow visitors like me to take a small piece of the museum experience home with them. Now I see how reproductions help make art part of everyday life, even in cases when we do not have museum access or the original arts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As many of us know, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is pretty popular. I had seen it countless times, especially online. I even saw it on the wall at a friend\u2019s house when I was invited home for thanksgiving.\u00a0 Before visiting the MoMA, I thought I already knew everything about it. Because I am … Continue reading Thomas – BlogPost #3 – The MoMA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-3","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}