R. B. Kitaj
Nov 03, 2012 - Jan 25, 2013
Moeller Fine Art Berlin is pleased to announce the exhibition "R.B. Kitaj," on view from November 3, 2012 - January 25, 2013. The exhibition will run concurrently with the retrospective "R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions" at the nearby Jewish Museum Berlin, through January 27, 2013. Moeller Fine Art's exhibition presents 15 important paintings created during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. All works are for sale.
R. B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj (1932-2007) is among the best-known of the figurative painters of the 鈥淭he London School,鈥� a name Kitaj coined in a catalog essay for his 1976 retrospective at the Arts Council of Great Britain, London. Kitaj's honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. In 1985, he became the first American since John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) to be elected to the Royal Academy. Numerous retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, including those at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Tate Gallery, London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
For Kitaj, art was a medium of intellectual exploration, which he mined using references from history, art, literature, pop culture, and his own life. These complex compositions of disorienting landscapes and impossible three dimensional constructions are built up using a montage of images, which he called 'agitational usage'. This juxtaposition is not only one of space but also of time; The Room (Rue St. Denis), 1982-83, exhibited at the Tate retrospective in 1994 and included in the gallery鈥檚 exhibition, refers to Kitaj's life and its connection to that of Pablo Picasso: "the year that I lived in Paris, I painted this room which is in the mile-long street which I have haunted since I was eighteen, a street Picasso also loved but I don't know if he ever painted it or its small rooms."
R. B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj (1932-2007) is among the best-known of the figurative painters of the 鈥淭he London School,鈥� a name Kitaj coined in a catalog essay for his 1976 retrospective at the Arts Council of Great Britain, London. Kitaj's honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. In 1985, he became the first American since John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) to be elected to the Royal Academy. Numerous retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, including those at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Tate Gallery, London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
For Kitaj, art was a medium of intellectual exploration, which he mined using references from history, art, literature, pop culture, and his own life. These complex compositions of disorienting landscapes and impossible three dimensional constructions are built up using a montage of images, which he called 'agitational usage'. This juxtaposition is not only one of space but also of time; The Room (Rue St. Denis), 1982-83, exhibited at the Tate retrospective in 1994 and included in the gallery鈥檚 exhibition, refers to Kitaj's life and its connection to that of Pablo Picasso: "the year that I lived in Paris, I painted this room which is in the mile-long street which I have haunted since I was eighteen, a street Picasso also loved but I don't know if he ever painted it or its small rooms."
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Moeller Fine Art Berlin is pleased to announce the exhibition "R.B. Kitaj," on view from November 3, 2012 - January 25, 2013. The exhibition will run concurrently with the retrospective "R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions" at the nearby Jewish Museum Berlin, through January 27, 2013. Moeller Fine Art's exhibition presents 15 important paintings created during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. All works are for sale.
R. B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj (1932-2007) is among the best-known of the figurative painters of the 鈥淭he London School,鈥� a name Kitaj coined in a catalog essay for his 1976 retrospective at the Arts Council of Great Britain, London. Kitaj's honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. In 1985, he became the first American since John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) to be elected to the Royal Academy. Numerous retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, including those at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Tate Gallery, London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
For Kitaj, art was a medium of intellectual exploration, which he mined using references from history, art, literature, pop culture, and his own life. These complex compositions of disorienting landscapes and impossible three dimensional constructions are built up using a montage of images, which he called 'agitational usage'. This juxtaposition is not only one of space but also of time; The Room (Rue St. Denis), 1982-83, exhibited at the Tate retrospective in 1994 and included in the gallery鈥檚 exhibition, refers to Kitaj's life and its connection to that of Pablo Picasso: "the year that I lived in Paris, I painted this room which is in the mile-long street which I have haunted since I was eighteen, a street Picasso also loved but I don't know if he ever painted it or its small rooms."
R. B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj (1932-2007) is among the best-known of the figurative painters of the 鈥淭he London School,鈥� a name Kitaj coined in a catalog essay for his 1976 retrospective at the Arts Council of Great Britain, London. Kitaj's honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. In 1985, he became the first American since John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) to be elected to the Royal Academy. Numerous retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, including those at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Tate Gallery, London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
For Kitaj, art was a medium of intellectual exploration, which he mined using references from history, art, literature, pop culture, and his own life. These complex compositions of disorienting landscapes and impossible three dimensional constructions are built up using a montage of images, which he called 'agitational usage'. This juxtaposition is not only one of space but also of time; The Room (Rue St. Denis), 1982-83, exhibited at the Tate retrospective in 1994 and included in the gallery鈥檚 exhibition, refers to Kitaj's life and its connection to that of Pablo Picasso: "the year that I lived in Paris, I painted this room which is in the mile-long street which I have haunted since I was eighteen, a street Picasso also loved but I don't know if he ever painted it or its small rooms."
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