Clyfford Still: Paintings, 1944-1960.HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. Nobody, but nobody, could cop attitude like Clyfford Still Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American artist, a painter, and one of the leading figures in Abstract Expressionism. Biography Still was born in Grandin, North Dakota. (1904-80): "I held it imperative to evolve an instrument of thought which would aid in cutting through all cultural opiates Opiates Analgesic, pain killing drugs, such as heroin and morphine that depress the central nervous system. Mentioned in: Withdrawal Syndromes , past and present, so that a direct, immediate, and truly free vision could be achieved." The question of whether Still's abstract painting can shoulder such a megalomaniacal meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a n. 1. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. 2. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions. burden will be raised by a modest thirty-nine-painting "reintroduction" exhibition organized by Hirshhorn director James Demetrion. That'll have to do, because Still's estate is as thorny as he was: It has hundreds of paintings--allegedly bound for a future Still museum--and simply won't loan. June 21-Sept. 16. |
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