March 23

THE HIGH- PICASSO TO WARHOL

Posted by Layla on March 23, 2012 in ART | Leave a comment

MARCH 23, 2012 @ 3:30PM
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA

The High Museum of Art will continue its collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), with the exclusive presentation of the major exhibition “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters” beginning October 2011. This exhibition will present approximately 100 works of art created by 14 of the most iconic artists from the 20th century: Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. “Picasso to Warhol” will be one of the largest concentrations of modern art masterpieces to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States.

The achievements of these pioneers of modern art will be presented in depth, exploring each artist’s stylistic development and highlighting their role in the most important artistic developments of the 20th century, including the invention of Cubism, the emergence of abstraction and the development of Surrealism. Highlights of the exhibition include:

• Henri Matisse’s “Dance (I),” 1909
• Pablo Picasso’s “Girl before a Mirror,” 1932, and “Night Fishing at Antibes,” 1939
• Jasper Johns’s “Map,” 1961
• Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait,” 1966
• Constantin Brancusi’s “Bird in Space,” 1928
• Jackson Pollock’s “Number 1A,” 1948
• Fernand Léger’s “Three Women,” 1921–1922
• Romare Bearden’s “The Train,” 1970
• Alexander Calder’s “Portrait of a Man,” 1929, and “Spider,” 1939
• Louise Bourgeois’s “Quarantania, I,” 1947–1953
• Giorgio de Chirico’s “The Song of Love,” 1914
• Marcel Duchamp’s “In Advance of the Broken Arm,” 1964
• Joan Miró’s “Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird,” 1926
• Piet Mondrian’s “Composition No. II, with Red and Blue,” 1929

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