Abstract Art Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Automatic translate

From June 8 to September 12, 2012, in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosts an exhibition of international abstract art 1949-1960. The exposition consists of approximately 100 works by nearly 70 authors and explores the main trends in the work of artists who worked in the United States and Europe, and who pioneered such influential art forms as abstract expressionism, Cobra and Art Informel.

Jackson Pollock - Ocean Greyness (1953)

In 1950, many countries removed their post-war isolation and entered a phase of cultural openness and internationalism. The famous French art critic Michel Tapié introduced the concept of “other art”, which included the works of such artists as Karel Appel, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Eduardo Chillida, Lucio Fontana, Grace Hartigan and many others.

Abstract expressionism encompasses a wide range of post-war American painting, which challenged the traditions of vertical easel painting. Beginning in the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock did his work by pouring and splashing paint onto a canvas lying on the floor. American critic Harold Rosenberg (Harold Rosenberg) considered such creativity a product of the unconscious outpouring of the artist.

Cobra was founded by artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. Masters of this direction preferred densely painted surfaces of vibrant color and expressive lines in a new form of primitivism. Art Informel artists often worked in unconventional materials, focusing on optical transformations, the effects of the movement of light and color.

The exhibition’s official website will host a huge selection of supporting materials from the museum’s archives, including letters from artists and historical photographs. Multimedia content includes videos and interviews with curators of the Guggenheim Museum.

Anna Sidorova