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Indepth Arts News:
"Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston"
2001-04-13 until 2001-09-03
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX,
USA
The middle years of the 20th century saw the worlds art
centers shift from Europe to the United States. Art at
Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston examines the complex dynamic that
occurred between Europeans and Americans, tracing the
emergence of the Abstract Expressionist avant-garde in
America, lart informel (art without form) in Europe, and
later developments.
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin
American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose
work was to play a defining role in shaping the New York
School of the 1940s. The museumNULLs extraordinary
collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings follows,
including examples by American artists Franz Kline, Lee
Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Parallel
developments among European contemporaries are
shown through the work of Pierre Alechinsky, Alberto
Giacometti, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, and others.
At the same time, a complementary movement of hard-edge abstraction emerged on both sides of the
Atlantic, with Europeans working in the United States, and
Americans working in Paris. This trend is represented by
the paintings of Josef Albers, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jack
Youngerman. The exhibition concludes with the work of
the Nouveaux Réalistes (New Realists), who emerged in
Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and examples of
assemblage created by artists in New York.
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