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Jackson Pollock's Mural: Energy Made Visible
From April 23 through November 16, 2015 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Jackson Pollock鈥檚 鈥楳ural鈥�: Energy Made Visible. The exhibition is curated by David Anfam, Senior Consulting Curator, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, and a preeminent authority on Abstract Expressionism. This touring exhibition focuses on Jackson Pollock鈥檚 Mural (1943, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City), following its 18-month campaign of conservation and cleaning at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles. The immensely dynamic Mural is the largest painting Pollock created and it has exerted a seismic impact on American art down to the present day. Commissioned in the summer of 1943 by Peggy Guggenheim for her New York townhouse, Mural established a new sense of scale and audacity for the Abstract Expressionist movement, anticipating the classic 鈥榩oured鈥� abstractions that Pollock would begin four years later. Setting Mural into context, the selection includes Pollock鈥檚 newly-restored Alchemy, as well as works by the artist鈥檚 wife Lee Krasner, David Smith and Robert Motherwell. Crucially, it also sheds new light on Pollock鈥檚 relationship to such photographers of action and energy as Herbert Matter, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind and Gjon Mili.
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From April 23 through November 16, 2015 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Jackson Pollock鈥檚 鈥楳ural鈥�: Energy Made Visible. The exhibition is curated by David Anfam, Senior Consulting Curator, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, and a preeminent authority on Abstract Expressionism. This touring exhibition focuses on Jackson Pollock鈥檚 Mural (1943, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City), following its 18-month campaign of conservation and cleaning at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles. The immensely dynamic Mural is the largest painting Pollock created and it has exerted a seismic impact on American art down to the present day. Commissioned in the summer of 1943 by Peggy Guggenheim for her New York townhouse, Mural established a new sense of scale and audacity for the Abstract Expressionist movement, anticipating the classic 鈥榩oured鈥� abstractions that Pollock would begin four years later. Setting Mural into context, the selection includes Pollock鈥檚 newly-restored Alchemy, as well as works by the artist鈥檚 wife Lee Krasner, David Smith and Robert Motherwell. Crucially, it also sheds new light on Pollock鈥檚 relationship to such photographers of action and energy as Herbert Matter, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind and Gjon Mili.
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