UNFINISHED

I visited Met Breuer on 2 September 2016. I saw this wonderful exhibition there. I took some photos. Look at the pictures. Enjoy 🙂

This exhibition addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Beginning with the Renaissance masters, this scholarly and innovative exhibition examines the term “unfinished” in its broadest possible sense, including works left incomplete by their makers, which often give insight into the process of their creation, but also those that partake of a non finito—intentionally unfinished—aesthetic that embraces the unresolved and open-ended. Some of history’s greatest artists explored such an aesthetic, among them Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne.

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Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (1606–1669) | Hendrickje Stoffels (1626–1663) mid-1650s

Oil on canvas 78.4 x 68.9 cm – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) | Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Duquesa de Huescar (1740-1784) 1775

Oil on panel – Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Naumann, New York

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Annette 1961

Oil on canvas 116.2 × 89.5 cm

Turner’s Room

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France) | Painter and his Model 1914

Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) | Boulevard des Capucines 1873 or 1874

Paintings of Paul Cézanne

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956) | Number 28, 1950
Enamel on canvas 173 x 266.7 cm – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) [Venezuelan, 1912-1994] | Reticulárea cuadrada 1971-1976

Stainless steel and copper

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Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973) | Mirrors and Shelly Sand 1969-1970

Fifty mirrors, back to back; beach sand with shells or pebbles – Dallas Museum of Art

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Sculptures of Auguste Rodin

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Cy Twombly (American, 1928–2011) | Untitled I-VI (Green Paintings) ca. 1986

Acrylic on plywood with artist’s frame – Cy Twombly Foundation

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View from The Met Breuer

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