Exhibition, 16 févr. 2013 - 26 mai 2013
Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962 focuses on one of the most significant developments in contemporary abstract painting: the artist’s literal assault on the picture plane. Responding to the physical and psychological destruction wrought by World War II—especially the existential crisis resulting from the atomic bomb—artists ripped, cut, burned, and affixed...