NYC - MoMA - Andreas Gursky's Bahrain I
Bahrain I, 2005
Chromogenic color print, 9' 10 7/8" x 7' 2 1/2" (301.9 x 219.7)
Andreas Gursky, German, born 1955
Gursky is from a generation of photographers who came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s by challenging the primacy of painting through the scale and grandeur of their work. He takes full advantage of the possibilities of digital manipulation in building his images. Here we see a racetrack winding through a desert landscape in Bahrain.
Andreas Gursky's Bahrain I was on display in the special exhibition, Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now from November 21, 2007
Acquired in honor of Robert B. Menschel through the generosity of Agnes Gund, Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis, Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder, and the Speyer Family Foundation.
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA's Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists.
NYC - MoMA - Andreas Gursky's Bahrain I
Bahrain I, 2005
Chromogenic color print, 9' 10 7/8" x 7' 2 1/2" (301.9 x 219.7)
Andreas Gursky, German, born 1955
Gursky is from a generation of photographers who came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s by challenging the primacy of painting through the scale and grandeur of their work. He takes full advantage of the possibilities of digital manipulation in building his images. Here we see a racetrack winding through a desert landscape in Bahrain.
Andreas Gursky's Bahrain I was on display in the special exhibition, Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now from November 21, 2007
Acquired in honor of Robert B. Menschel through the generosity of Agnes Gund, Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis, Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder, and the Speyer Family Foundation.
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA's Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists.