Saturday, May 19, 2012

Highlights From My Hirschhorn Visit

A word on the Hirschhorn, it's amazing. It's a better version of the Guggenheim. It's an amazing place to view art with a design that flows organically and somehow distracts you completely from a concern about place or scene of direction. It's collection splits evenly between painting/photography and sculpture--with a taste of installation/video art for fun. And it's free.

Without further ado, here are seven randomly selected pieces from the current selections from it's collection on display. Enjoy. None are of a quality to reproduce, but all should work to whet your appetite to come to D.C. and see the magic for yourselves!

Futurist Flowers, 1918-1925, Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)

People Of Chilmark (Figure Composition), 1920, Thomas Hart Benton (1880-1975)

Composition In Blue And Yellow, 1935, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Canuck Yankee Lumberjack At Old Orchard Beach, Maine, 1940-41, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)

Moonmad, 1944--cast 1956, Max Ernst (1891-1976)

1948-C, 1948, Clyfford Still (1904-1980)

P & H 2 (Behemoth), 2007, Amy Sillman (1955 - )

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