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Museum of Modern Arts
In 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, perceived a need to challenge the conserva tive policies of traditional museums and to establish an institution devoted exclusively to modern art. They, along with additional original trustees A. Conger Goodyear, Paul Sachs, Frank Crowninshield, and Josephine Boardman Crane, created The Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and it might provide New York with “The grea test museum of modern art in the world.”
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VisionWe celebrate creativity, openness, tolerance, and most of all gene rosity. We aim to be inclusive places both onsite and online in the way we demostrate art where diverse cultural, artistic, social, and political positions are welcome. We’re committed to sharing the most thought provoking modern and contemporary art, and hope you will join us in exploring the art, ideas, and issues of our time.
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Mission
The Museum of Modern Art connects people from around the world to the art of our time. We aspire to be a ca talyst for experimentation, learning, and creativity, a gathering place for all, and a home for artists and their ideas.
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Jason de Graaf
Jason de Graaf was born in Montreal, QC. He divided his time between working as a commissioned illustrator and his more passionate oc cupation as a fine artist, but, in 2005, he began to devote himself entirely to painting. de Graaf renders realist works in acrylic filte red through a personal response to his subjects, infusing them with the motivation to communicate something unique to the viewer.
“My paintings are about staging an alternate reality, the illusion of verisimilitude on the painted surface, filtered so that it expresses my unique vision. Though my paintings may appear photoreal my goal is not to reproduce or document faithfully what I see one hundred percent, but also to create the illusion of depth and sense of presence not found in photographs. Many of my paintings are about the relations hip of light with reflective and transparent surfaces and my journey to understand those qualities and convey my sense of wonder and intrigue over them. In all of my paintings the subject matter is a sprin gboard and a means to explore my ability to communicate something unique to the viewer. I use colours and composition intuitively with the intent of imbuing my paintings with emotion, mood and mystery. Throughout, I try to remain open to new ideas as the painting unfolds.”
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“Suede Classic” on panel
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Acrylic
21 x 28 in.
“Air
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Jordan 3” Acrylic on panel 24 x 32 in. Illusion
“Superstar”
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Acrylic on panel 21 x 28 in.
15 Melted “Heavenly Hash” Acrylic on panel 28 x 24 in.
“Rainbow flavor” Acrylic on panel
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24 x 28 in.
17“Neapolitan” Acrylic on panel 24 x 28 in.
“Salted
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caramel” Acrylic on panel 24 x 28 in.
“Gummy Berries”
19 Sweet Sin
Acrylic on panel 30 x 16 in.
“Cholocaleta and ice cream” panel
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Acrylic on
28 x 31 in.
21 “Gummy Bubbles” Acrylic on panel 28 x 31 in. “Panda Gummies” Acrylic on panel 29 x 38 in.
“Still life with Roemer” Acrylic on panel x
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37 in.
23 Glorious Death
“Schedel”
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Acrylic on panel 31 x 35 in.
25“Crepusculum” Acrylic on panel 24 x 24 in.
“Crystal Skull” Acrylic on panel 24 x 24 in.
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27 Life Still “Amulet” Acrylic on panel 51 x 27 in.
“Eight” Acrylic on panel 46.5 x 32 in.
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“Inveniam Viam” Acrylic on panel x
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42 in.
“Green Roemer” Acrylic on panel 48 x 24 in.
“Professor Calculus” Acrylic on panel 30 x 48 in.
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“Suspension on Disbelief panel
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II” Acrylic on
29 x 23 in.
“Galactic Swirl” Acrylic on panel 28 x 24in.
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“Leatherman”
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Acrylic on panel 24 x 18 in.
35 “Salt” Acrylic on panel 37 x 22 in.
36 “Lux Brumalis” Acrylic on panel 48 x 24 in.
Heaven´s Fruits
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“Punica Granatum” Acrylic on panel 38 x 22 in.
“Goblet III” Acrylic on panel 41 x 30 in.
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“Rosemary” Acrylic on panel x 28 in.
“Harmonia Axyridis” Acrylic on panel x 18 in.
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“Goblet II” Acrylic on panel 32 x 21 in.
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Jason de Graaf Museum of Modern Arts www.jasondegraff.com www.moma.org