Chapter 5
Monet’s development of the innovative technique of smudge-like brushstrokes, and the effect of spatial disorientation that he creates in his Japanese Bridge and his Water-Lilies series, bring his art close to the most expressive and gestural varieties of abstraction.
In the last rooms of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, paintings from Monet’s final period dialogue with Jackson Pollock’s and Lee Krasner’s new action painting; with Mark Tobey’s floating, intertwined calligraphic forms; Willem de Kooning’s expressive, gestural impasting; the enveloping flatness of Phillip Guston’s work; and the stains in suspension in Cy Twombly’s compositions. All of these works are linked by a common visual dynamism achieved through a contrast between the plasticity of the impasto and a delicate gestural fluidity.
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- Autor:
- Claude Monet
- Título:
- The Japanese Bridge, 1918-1924
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 89 x 100 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (Inv. 5094)
- Photo: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Jackson Pollock
- Título:
- Number 9, 1949, 1949
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 112.3 x 86.3 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Gift of Tony Smith
- © 2009. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York/Scala, Florence. © 2010 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. VEGAP. Madrid
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Lee Krasner
- Título:
- The Springs, 1964
- Fecha:
- 1876
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 109 x 168 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay
- © De las reproducciones autorizadas. VEGAP. Madrid, 2010
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Claude Monet
- Título:
- Water-Lilies, c. 1917
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 100 x 300 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (Inv. 5118)
- Photo: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris/The Bridgeman Art Library
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Willem De Kooning
- Título:
- Untitled II, 1979
- Fecha:
- 1876
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 195.5 x 223.5 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Daros Collection, Switzerland
- © The Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York/VEGAP/2010
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Cy Twombly
- Título:
- Untitled. A Painting in Two Parts (Bassano in Teverina), 1986
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 120.6 x 100.3 and 40 x 50.2 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Private Collection. Courtesy of Fondation H. Looser, Zurich
- Numero de inventario