Museum expands into renovated Masonic temple.Byline: The Register-Guard While you're visiting ``Hesse'' at the Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in the last days of 1892, making it the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in , be sure to check out the newly refurbished Mark Building and its six-level Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. The Mark Building, which sits just north of the museum's main Belluschi Building, was a 1925-vintage Masonic temple. The museum acquired it in 1991 and has spent $40 million converting it to gallery, library and office space in the past couple of years. It re-opened this fall. The 28,000-square-foot Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, which occupies the south side of the building, is an airy air·y adj. air·i·er, air·i·est 1. Of, relating to, or having the constitution of air. 2. High in the air; lofty. 3. Open to the air: airy chambers. 4. and modern creation of concrete and glass hidden inside the original Masonic structure. The center now houses the museum's art collection from Impressionism impressionism, in painting impressionism, in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to forward in time. You enter underground from the main museum building, find yourself in a display of abstract welded sculpture by Anthony Caro Sir Anthony Caro, OM, CBE, (born 8 March 1924 in New Malden, Surrey) is an English, abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblies of metal using 'found' industrial objects. on the bottom level, and then can tour galleries from bottom to top: The first floor houses the museum's Impressionist works, with the best known example being one of Claude Monet's ``Waterlilies.'' The second floor has the Clement Greenberg Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 - May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic closely associated with the abstract art movement in the United States. In particular, he promoted the Abstract Expressionist movement and had close ties with the painter Jackson Pollock. Collection, largely abstract paintings that the museum acquired from the late critic's estate in 2000. From there, check out the 2,200-square-foot mezzanine mez·za·nine n. 1. A partial story between two main stories of a building. 2. The lowest balcony in a theater or the first few rows of that balcony. , dedicated to showing photography from the museum's permanent collection. The third floor has pop art and other contemporary forms that bring story-telling - purged by the abstract expressionists from their work - back into art. On floor four, find contemporary and post-conceptual works, including video. |
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