Name: Daytime Classes: Becoming Modern: Art before Jackson Pollock
Start: 2018-03-28T11:00
Location: Education Center

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Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31, 1950. 1950. Oil and enamel paint on canvas, 8' 10" x 17' 5 5/8" (269.5 x 530.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection Fund (by exchange). Conservation was made possible by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. © 2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Instructor: Jennifer Katanic
4 Wednesdays; registration is open throughout
For more information, please e-mail [email protected]
Price: Nonmember $355, Member $325, Student/Educator/Other Museum Staff $250
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Jackson Pollock represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1950, and his iconic drip painting came to embody modern America and its formidable New York art scene. We’ll uncover what led to this Westward shift in the art world by looking at what came before Pollock. We’ll find connections to Norman Rockwell, the American landscape, the working class, and migration. We’ll explore how Vasily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso inspired new generations, and how institutions like The Art Students League and The Museum of Modern Art followed with exciting new programs that formed rich associations between past and present. Each session will focus on a single question or idea, and we will discuss artists including Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and Andrew Wyeth.

This course is designed to complement At Home and Abroad: Art after Jackson Pollock

Bio: Jennifer Katanic is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. She travels frequently to Prague, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sarajevo, visiting museums, galleries, and artist studios and writing about her experiences. She believes that art is the greatest travel companion.

This event is part of MoMA Daytime Classes.

Past events

Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 11:00 a.m.

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Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 11:00 a.m.

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