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  • This exhibition assembles more than a hundred works of art

  • made by Abstract Expressionist artists in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

  • What's amazing to me is

  • they all come from the collection of this museum.

  • For me, it was very important to do this exhibition --

  • for two reasons.

  • One is the sheer pleasure and the sheer, I felt,

  • importance of, fifty or sixty years later,

  • looking again at Abstract Expressionism.

  • It's become something so identified with New York

  • and with MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art),

  • and something that we take for granted -- almost as much

  • as we take something like French Impressionism for granted.

  • Like, "Oh yes, those beautiful landscapes by Monet."

  • And I thought, over the last year or two,

  • that this is painting and sculpture

  • that we need to look at again,

  • and -- now that it's the 21st century --

  • see what of it really carries forward

  • its message into this next century.

  • It's been a long time now

  • since that work got a serious reconsideration.

  • I think it's going to be exhilarating, frankly,

  • to see the power of these objects in the galleries --

  • the ambition, the sheer majesty and grandeur of this art --

  • because that's very much what its creators wanted it to be,

  • is something that is knocking my socks off,

  • anyway, all over again.

  • But the other reason that I wanted to do this exhibition

  • is to point out to our visitors that what you normally see

  • at The Museum of Modern Art,

  • you're seeing the tip of an iceberg.

  • The real Museum of Modern Art is not

  • what you see on the walls and the galleries

  • when you're walking through as a visitor.

  • The real Museum of Modern Art is in our drawing center,

  • in our print center, in our photography study center,

  • where there are just hundreds and thousands of works of art

  • that we've collected over the decades,

  • but that obviously there isn't a space to show on a regular basis.

  • So for me, this is actually quite a thrilling opportunity

  • to have our visitors get the chance

  • to walk through what is actually, in total,

  • 25,000 square feet worth of gallery space --

  • all devoted to one subject --

  • that people can immerse themselves in, can really dig into.

  • Instead of just seeing the normal two or three paintings

  • by Mark Rothkoe, see ten paintings by Mark Rothkoe.

  • Instead of just seeing the big names like Mark Rothkoe

  • or Jackson Pollock, see works by artists such as

  • Jack Tworkov, William Baziotes, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner --

  • people who were incredibly important at that time,

  • and who had major, major impact on their peers.

  • And yet, over time, their names

  • have not been remembered as well.

  • The Museum of Modern Art is often very closely

  • identified with Abstract Expressionism.

  • We were on hand for Abstract Expressionism's birth.

  • In small part, at least, one can say,

  • because MoMA did exist, and because MoMA was here

  • to show that art from the first half of the century

  • by European greats, such as Matisse and Picasso --

  • to young artists at work in New York.

  • Although we are so closely identified

  • with Abtract Expressionism today --

  • (And, indeed, our collection is the richest in the world.)

  • -- in the beginning, this museum was

  • slow to come to Abstract Expressionism.

  • It was not obvious at the end of the 40s that

  • this was a movement that had some kind of coherence,

  • and was going to be as great, if not greater,

  • than these earlier European avant gardes.

  • We did buy a painting by a Pollock --

  • a painting by Pollock -- from his first show

  • at the Peggy Guggenheim Gallery in 1943.

  • And we made other historic purchases like that.

  • In fact, our first Rothkoe painting,

  • which was offered as a gift from a trustee,

  • (Philip Johnson, the architect, in fact, in 1952)

  • caused another trustee to resign in disgust.

  • The early trustees and the early audience

  • was not necessarily ready for Abstract Expressionism.

  • And so I think the curators were conscious of that,

  • and wanted to take it slow.

  • In 1958, we organized an exhibition

  • called 'The New American Painting.'

  • It toured to eight countries in Europe.

  • The influence of that exhibition was enormous on painters

  • in France, Switzerland, England, Spain, Italy, etc.

  • And when that exhibition was done with its tour,

  • it came back and was here at MoMA in 1959 --

  • 'The New American Painting.'

  • And that kind of sealed the movement as a great,

  • important art historical phenomenon of the 20th century.

This exhibition assembles more than a hundred works of art

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AB EX紐約。紐約現代藝術博物館與抽象表現主義 (AB EX NY: MoMA and Abstract Expressionism)

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    Chihyu Lin 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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