MODERN ART
The range of paintings chosen for this exhibit room reveal how the use of the spiral has proliferated in the modern era. Notably, modern artists often assign specific meaning to their use of spiral imagery. Modern artists frequently express that their art motifs are connected to wider significance. Awareness of scientific discoveries and modern psychological ideas are expressed by many modern artists.
Post-Impressionism
Name: "Starry Night"
Date: June, 1889 Artist: Vincent van Gogh Current Location: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York Could it be possible that Vincent van Gogh was depicting spiraling Galaxies?
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20th Century Modern Art
Name: "Infinity Tagore's Sun"
Date: 1994 Artist: Friedensreich Hundertwasser Current Location: Unknown "The spiral shows life and death in both directions. Starting from the center, the infinite small the spiral means birth and growth, but by getting bigger and bigger the spiral dilutes into the infinite space and dies off like waves who disappear in the calm waters." - Hundertwasser (www.hundertwasser.at)
Name: "Red Hill and White Shell"
Date: 1938 Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe Current Location: The museum of Fine Arts, Houston Name: Tree of Life
Date: 1905 Artist: Gustav Klimt Current Location: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria Name: "Abstraction White Rose"
Date: 1927 Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe Current Location: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Name: "Nature Morte Vivante" (Still Life – Fast Moving)
Date: 1956 Artist: Salvador Dali Current Location: Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida "This painting also depicts the importance of the spiral, which Dali believed was nature’s most perfect form, using it as a symbol of cosmic order." (thedali.org) |