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Our conservators think there's a spot on Rothko's No. 14 where the paint may be deteriorating, but it's difficult to tell with the naked eye. They're hoping that the RTI will reveal whether or not there's a spot where the paint is thinner, thus indicating decay that may need restoring. (caption from the SFMOMA FaceBook gallery)(image courtesy of SFMOMA)
CLYFFORD STILL
This gallery is permanently dedicated to the abstract painter Clyfford Still (1904-1980). SFMOMA presented Still’s first solo exhibit in 1943 and in 1975 the artist gave this museum twenty-eight paintings that spanned his entire career, from his early surrealist-inspired works of the 1930s and his pioneering abstract paintings of the 1940s and early 1950s to grand canvases from the 1970s. These pieces joined two others already given to the museum by Peggy Guggenheim and Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, making SFMOMA’s collection one of the world’s most important repositories of Still’s work. The selection of paintings by Still in this gallery will rotate periodically.
From 1946 to 1950 Still taught at the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), where he influenced an entire generation of West Coast painters. Although he then spent much of the 1950s in New York, he renounced any association with the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Instead, he chose to develop his work independently, relying on the primacy of personal experience and the study and distillation of his own painting. Unlike most artists of his day, Still ground and prepared his own pigments, applying them to the canvas with both a palette knife and a brush. Although he famously insisted I paint only myself, not nature, the deep, earthy colors of his palette and the rugged texture of his canvases suggest primordial landscapes.
I visited the SFMOMA solo after biking 6 miles of San Francisco hills. Turned out to be amazing and totally worth it as I thought it would.
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I visited the SFMOMA solo after biking 6 miles of San Francisco hills. Turned out to be amazing and totally worth it as I thought it would.
For more visit ZeroFreeRides.com and my personal site iamjoshuaweaver.com
Detail of a Sol LeWitt painting at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. The black section is a balcony.