MOMA's AB EX NEW YORK

Went to the Museum of Modern Art today to check out their blockbuster Abstract Expressionist Exhibition.....


Wow.

Franz Kline, Cheif, 1950

Norman Lewis, City Night, 1947

(detail) Ad Reinhardt, Number 22, 1949

(detail) Arshille Gorky, Agony, 1947

Robert Motherwell, The Voyage, 1949

(detail) Jackson Pollack, One: Number 31, 1950, 1950

(detail) Phillip Guston, Painting, 1954

(detail) Phillip Guston, Painting, 1954

Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108, 1965-67

(detail) Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108, 1965-67



While, on the surface, safe and productive post-WWII America looked like this:


...the generation's artists struggled with the dark collective interior of a nation now stepping into the spotlight as a world superpower while negotiating the harrowing guilt of being the only country to drop the nuclear bomb. Their portait of the American psyche looked like more like this:

Franz Kline, Le Gros, 1961

If you find yourself in New York before the exhibit closes on April 25th, it is well worth a look.