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Photo Credit: John Schweikert

Artist

Robert Moskowitz (Primary)

Title

Untitled

Date

1961

Century

20th century

Medium & Support

Collage on canvas

Dimensions

Support: 54 x 39 1/2 in. , Frame: 54 1/4 x 40 in.

Style

Pop Art

Object Type

Paintings

Credit Line

Gift of Robert B. Mayer Memorial Collection

Accession Number

1976.04.3.24

Copyright

In Copyright
© Robert Moskowitz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Moskowitz came of age artistically in the late 1950s, between the Abstract Expressionism and Pop art movements, and his work combines both: muscular, painterly gestures and everyday objects. He first gained recognition with his Window Shade paintings in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These works, epitomized by Untitled, show the artist’s fascination with how mundane images can be transformed through painterly process: natural progression of ideas and aesthetic manipulation of materials. In this work, brushstrokes, chance drips, and splatters of glue and pigment are abstract gestures that shape a psychological tension around a common object such as this window shade, creating a dynamic balance between public and private, revealed and concealed.

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Terrie Sultan

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