Gesture, Scrape, Combine, Calculate: Postwar Abstraction from the Permanent Collection
Aug 20, 2010 - Sep 20, 2010
This exhibition showcases works of large-scale postwar abstraction from the Kemper Art Museum鈥檚 permanent collection. The selection presents a cross-section of proliferating strategies and approaches to abstract painting and sculpture as practiced by artists working across the United States and in Europe from the immediate postwar years to the late 1970s. Highlights include examples of gestural and lyrical abstraction, color-field painting, hard-edge abstraction, and assemblage by artists such as Alberto Burri, Gene Davis, Roberto Matta, Arshile Gorky, Allan McCollum, Jules Olitski, Antoni T脿pies, and Anne Truitt. A complement to the selection of works on view in the Museum鈥檚 second floor permanent collection galleries, this special exhibition offers an opportunity to see works rarely on display and to enable deeper understanding of postwar abstraction.
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This exhibition showcases works of large-scale postwar abstraction from the Kemper Art Museum鈥檚 permanent collection. The selection presents a cross-section of proliferating strategies and approaches to abstract painting and sculpture as practiced by artists working across the United States and in Europe from the immediate postwar years to the late 1970s. Highlights include examples of gestural and lyrical abstraction, color-field painting, hard-edge abstraction, and assemblage by artists such as Alberto Burri, Gene Davis, Roberto Matta, Arshile Gorky, Allan McCollum, Jules Olitski, Antoni T脿pies, and Anne Truitt. A complement to the selection of works on view in the Museum鈥檚 second floor permanent collection galleries, this special exhibition offers an opportunity to see works rarely on display and to enable deeper understanding of postwar abstraction.
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August 20, 2010
6:00 PM
Washington University, One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO, USA 63130
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