Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue
Between 1958 and 1965, Ellsworth Kelly made a number of figure/ground paintings, closely related compositions on rectangular canvases using two or three colors–most often red, green, and blue, but also including white and black. Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue traces the evolution of this body of work, distinguished by large, unmodulated fields of vibrant color dynamically balanced on the picture plane in simple rectilinear and curvilinear shapes. In these paintings and a constellation of related works on paper, Kelly blends an elegant, rigorous abstraction with a close observation of the forms in his surroundings.
Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue - Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965 >>
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Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure is the first major exhibition to include works of art from the entire Himalayan region, comprised of objects from India, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, and Bhutan to explore the particular beauty and artistic achievement that developed from a spiritual tradition unique to the Himalayas. The exhibition will include 187 works of mostly religious art created between the sixth and nineteenth centuries from private and public collections in North America, Europe, and Asia. Most of these objects have never before been publicly exhibited.
Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure by Pratapaditya Pal >>
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Art Through the Ages
The second exhibition at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum presents a selection of thirty-nine masterpieces that traces six centuries of painting from the Renaissance to the 1960’s, drawing on the collections of three of the world’s greatest museums: the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. This will be the first full-scale exhibition to celebrate the trilateral collaboration agreement forged between the three institutions in January 2001, uniting three very different, mutually complementary collections through joint-programming and collection-sharing initiatives.
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An American Legacy, a Gift to New York
This exhibition brings together an enormously important group of gifts generously presented to the Whitney by members of its Board of Trustees, focusing on the formative works of artists who achieved national acclaim during the 1950s and 1960s. The presentation begins with the spontaneous, painterly gestures of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and the luminous Color Field paintings of Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko. Popular imagery from the 1960s finds expression in the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, and in the everyday subject matter of Claes Oldenburg’s sculpture. The innovations arising from these two decades have exerted powerful influences on succeeding generations of artists. Luminaries such as Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly continue to work today; their recent works in this exhibition demonstrate the breadth of their development over the course of more than five decades.
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An American Legacy, a Gift to New York >>