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Max Beckmann»rank: 445908by: Susanne Bieber, Barbara Buenger, Charles Haxthausen, Jill Lloyd, Nina Peter, Ortrud Westheider, Anette Kruszynski, Robert Storr, Max Beckmann, Leon Golub, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge
: :Max Beckmann was among the greatest painters of the 20th century, yet no retrospective of his work has been mounted in the art capitals of New York, London, and Paris in over 30 years. Perhaps the lapse of attention has to do with the importance of abstraction in 20th-century art, and Beckmann's work is always figurative, simultaneously muscular and enigmatic and has enormous and unsettling power. Beckmann began his career as a naturalist and Symbolist in the period before World War I. After the war he developed a unique pictorial style that mixed expressionist color and gesture, mythological and mystical allegory, and the harsh new objectivity of his portrayal of ... |
Drawing From The Modern»rank: 726272by: Agnes Martin, Gary Garrels, Carl Andre, Willem de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Dan Flavin
: :Visual art in the period following World War II witnessed landmark transformations. Today, drawing provides a powerful and vigorous device for reexamining the art of that period, and for renewing appreciation of the extraordinary achievements of well-known artists--and for discovering others. Even though the art of these years saw radical departures and shifts, drawing, which is among the most traditional of media, played a crucial and consistent role in the work of a great majority of the most significant artists. Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975, surveys the drawing of the period through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The postwar period saw the ... |
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Ellsworth Kelly: Self Portrait Drawings 1944-1992»rank: 596286by: Harry Cooper, Ellsworth Kelly
: :Think of an Ellsworth Kelly: an abstract consideration of the relationship between figure and ground; a conscious questioning of the conditions that underlie perception; an exploration of the relationship of painting and wall, sculpture and space, viewer and work. Now think of Ellsworth Kelly: a man, born in the 1920s in New York state, who has been recording his own appearance in ink and graphite over the years, capturing himself as his attitudes changed, his self-perception changed, his face and body aged. Collected here are five decades of Kelly's self-portraits, drawn between 1944 and 1992. The artist sketches himself in all variety of poses: bust, standing, sitting, clothed, nude, laughing, ... |
Barcelona Sculptures»rank: 852919by: Jaume Capo, Joan Miro, Anthony Caro, Rebecca Horn, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Juan Munoz, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Antoni Tapies, James Turrell, Lawrence Weiner, Alexander Calder
: :Spain's second largest city, Barcelona, may be famous for its architecture and its history, but in amongst those Romanesque churches, winding Gothic streets, and Gaudi apartment buildings lurk a museum full of permanent outdoor sculptures. More than 50 of the most noteworthy of these 20th-century public artworks are reproduced here, including pieces by Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, Antoni Tapies, Frank Gehry, Ellsworth Kelly, Lawrence Weiner, Rebecca Horn, Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Juan Munoz, Anthony Caro, and James Turrell. Though it enjoyed an illustrious past as a Roman colony, Visigoth capital, and 14th-century martitime power, Barcelona Sculptures vividly proves that the capital of the Catalonia region is firmly ensconced ... |
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Parkett No. 56 Vanessa Beecroft, Ellsworth Kelly, Jorge Pardo (Parkett)»rank: 2220548by: Jorge Pardo, Vanessa Beecroft, Ellsworth Kelly
: :Artwork by Jorge Pardo, Vanessa Beecroft, Ellsworth Kelly. |
Plant Drawings»rank: 1193329by: Henri Matisse, Ellsworth Kelly
: :Artwork by Jorge Pardo, Vanessa Beecroft, Ellsworth Kelly. |
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The Early Drawings 1948 - 1955»rank: 1193329by: Ellsworth Kelly
: :Artwork by Jorge Pardo, Vanessa Beecroft, Ellsworth Kelly. |
Line, Form, Color»rank: 1369533by: Ellsworth Kelly
: :Ellsworth Kelly first conceived Line Form Color in 1951 as a series of studies, both drawings and collages. Later that year he applied to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a grant to produce a book. 'an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements, ' but the application was not successful. With this volume, Kelly has brought Line Form Color to completion. Its forty plates correspond to the original collages. This edition also includes an essay by Harry Cooper, curator of modern art at the Harvard University Art Museums. |
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Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue--Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965»rank: 1159352by: Roberta Bernstein, Sarah Rich, Hugh Davies, Toby Kamps, Ellsworth Kelly
: :Red Green Blue is almost the title of a 1963 painting by Ellsworth Kelly. Red Blue Green, a monumental rectangular oil work, considered a crucial fulcrum point in the artist's career, represents Kelly's concerns about the tension between the figure and the ground, offering two precisely shaped and balanced red and blue forms set against a strongly contrasting green ground. Working within a strict set of limits, he created a string of similarly grand, powerful works and defined many of the ideas about line, form, and color that still drive his work today. These works, made from the late 50s to the mid-60s, established the artist's singular style and his ... |
Gunter Umberg: Body of Painting: Pictures from Cologne-based Collections»rank: 2398955by: Jochen Poetter, Jo Baer, Ingrid Calame, Helmut Federle, Sam Francis, Oskar Kokoschka, Gunter Umberg, Richard Artschwager, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Jonathan Lasker, Brice Marden, Sigmar Polke, David Reed, Museum Ludwig
: :For Body of Painting, Gnter Umberg has placed his own oeuvre within the context of images by other artists with whom he feels a special affinity. The other artists featured include Jasper Johns, Sigmar Polke, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Jessica Stockholder, Gerhard Richter, Brice Marden, Robert Ryman, Piero Manzoni, Andy Warhol, Jo Baer, Ingrid Calame, Helmut Federle, Dan Flavin, Sam Francis, Hans Hoffman, Oskar Kokoschka, Jonathan Lasker, and David Reed, among others. Together, these works create a discursive dialogue which allows viewers to grasp relationships of both harmony and discord among a multiplicitous network of texts, with surprising and engaging results. Umberg's own pieces can definitely be counted among the ... |