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From Pablo to Andy:
Modern art without Warhol would be almost sacrilegious. On display in the exciting exhibition Picasso to Pop at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will be one of Warhol's silkscreen images of Jackie Kennedy. Picasso to Pop
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Among the highlights of their modern collection is Pablo Picasso's The Bather, which will be on display as part of Picasso to Pop. |
Andy Warhol, Jesus Guerrero Galvan, Stella Snead, Pavel Tchelichew and Hale Woodruff are each represented in the exhibit.
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An admirer of Picasso Jesus Guerrero Galvan, was one of the Mexican muralists which included David Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera. |
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Their collective was initially formed after the Mexican Ministry of Public Education hired these artists to paint scenes on the walls of public buildings. Each painted the history and vibrancy of the Mexican people. It was a particularly powerful protest tool during the early 1900s when the country was under the grip of a dictator, President Diaz, who resigned given the popular opinion against him, helped thanks to the patriotism stirred with the Mexican murals.
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British photographer and surrealist painter Stella Snead fled wartime Europe for the United States. In the 1940's she had several exhibits of her paintings in her adopted country. |
They featured her preferred subject of night time landscapes enhanced with fantastic animals. Within a decade she abandoned painting following a bout of depression, and turned to photography as her creative outlook. She produced numerous books on life in India such as Shiva's Pigeons: An Experience of India and Animals in Four Worlds: Sculptures from India.
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Russian born artist Pavel Tchelichew (also spelled Tschelitchew) began his career as a set designer for the ballet in Paris before he moved to New York City and became fascinated with the surrealist art movement. |
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Title: Carnival, 1950
Artist: Hale Woodruff (American, 1900-1980)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 43 x 34 inches
Permanent Collection: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1993.13
Image Courtesy: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
African-American artist Hale Woodruff studied mural paintings with the Mexican master of the movement, Diego Rivera. His research into the African culture influenced some of his subjects such as the work Carnival.
Drawing from their extensive holdings, Picasso to Pop details the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's history of acquiring works by twentieth century innovators as well as the diversity and international reach of modern art featuring 60 rarely shown paintings, watercolors, drawings, collages, and sculptures.
Picasso to Pop
Aspects of Modern Art
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art:
December 23, 2006 - November 30, 2007
