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Highlight: Picasso to Pop -- Aspects of Modern Art
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), The Bather, 1922. Oil on canvas, 7-1/2 x 5 inches. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1931.198. Courtesy Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York/Sean McEntee Photography.
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Beginning with a Picasso drawing of a head dated 1906, Picasso to Pop charts the Wadsworth's history of acquiring works by twentieth-century innovators. Experimental works by George Grosz, Paul Klee, Georges Roualt, and Wyndham Lewis represent the advanced artistic movements of the 1920s in Europe. Concurrently, Paris was the stronghold of the Surrealists, among them Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy, who cast their spell as far as Latin and Central America, influencing Rufino Tamayo, Jesus Maria Galvan, and Mario Carreno, are all represented here.
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Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), Early Colored Jackie, 1964. Silkscreen on canvas, 40 x 40 inches. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, The Douglas Tracy Smith and Dorothy Potter Smith Fund, The James L. Goodwin Fund, The Gift of Henry and Walter Keney and Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 1994.17.1 Courtesy Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Post World War II, a new generation of American artists helped shift the world's cultural capital to New York. Abstract Expressionism is exemplified by two Jackson Pollock paintings, while Pop Art, which registered the mass appeal of American popular culture, is embodied in work by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Picasso to Pop also revisits one of art history's favorite subjects -- the nude -- with notable examples by Picasso, Carreno, and Tom Wesselman.
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