Getting back to the 20th and 21st Century 12-3-15

Today we made our first foray into the modernists of 20th and 21st century of art and went to visit the Pompidou Center, the National Museum of Modern Art in France.  Most of you have seen the controversial architecture, where all the mechanical, electrical, and structural systems are on the outside of the building instead of hidden away inside walls.  It's 6 stories high and basically clad in glass.
As before stated things like the escalators are on the outside of the building so to get to the main museum you take the escalators all the way to the top.  The museum itself is primarily on the top two floors, with a library on the floors below.  The top floor is dedicated the period from around the mid-teens up through the late 1980's, while the floor below takes off from there and has installations that go right up to almost today.
Over the years both Deb and I have gotten very attached to the artists that were post-impressionist and pre-abstract expressionist, the fauvists, the dadaist, the constructivists, the cubists, etc.  Although that said there are many abstract expressionist artists that are quite interesting as well.
It is quite easy to follow the development of modern art through the decades of the 20th century because the various schools are featured and the artists that were major proponents of them then serve as the prime examples.  It fascinating to see such good Matisse's, Picasso's, and Braque's in here since there are so many of their works in other major venues as well.  An artist I particularly like is Fernand Leger and the collection here is the best I've seen anywhere.

Two other artists that we've grown quite enamored with are Robert and Sonia Delaunay, husband and wife both of whom were active in Paris beginning in the 20's and made some very colorful works with an emphasis on geometric form.
On the next floor down things get much more contemporary and to be honest a lot of it is just too esoteric for me right now.
If I just look at the visual imagery there is much to be enjoyed but when I try to go through all the mental gymnastics to understand the minutiae underpinning it I get goggle-eyed.   If the artists are rebelling against the 40 character tweet mentality of our electronic age then they have to work out how to keep it withing a few paragraphs.  Just my untutored opinion.