|
''Brooklyn Bridge'' is a 1915 painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. The painting was reproduced in a photograph of Gleizes published in The Literary Digest, 27 November 1915 (p. 1225). ''Brooklyn Bridge'' was exhibited at the Montross Gallery, New York, 1916 (no. 40) along with works by Jean Crotti, Marcel Duchamp and Jean Metzinger.〔(''Exhibition of pictures by Jean Crotti, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger'', Montross Gallery, New York, April 4 to April 22, 1916 )〕 This is the first in a series of three highly abstract paintings by Gleizes of the Brooklyn Bridge.〔(Daniel Robbins, ''Albert Gleizes'', From Grove Art Online, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, Oxford University Press, 2009 )〕〔(Daniel Robbins, 1964, ''Albert Gleizes 1881 - 1953, A Retrospective Exhibition'', Published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, in collaboration with Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. )〕 It was the most abstract painting of the bridge to date. Gleizes and the Italian-American artist Joseph Stella had been friends since 1915 and ihas been of interest to compare this painting with Stella's ''Brooklyn Bridge'' of 1919-20.〔 The American collector John Quinn acquired ''Brooklyn Bridge'' and several other works by Gleizes that had been on view at Montross Gallery, either during the exhibition or subsequently. In 1927, an exhibition and sale of Quinn's art collection took place in New York City. The sale was conducted by Otto Bernet and Hiram H. Parke at the American Art Galleries. A catalogue was published for the occasion by the American Art Association. ''Brooklyn Bridge'' (n. 263 of the catalogue) was purchased at the sale for $60.〔(''Paintings and sculptures, The renowned collection of modern and ultra-modern art formed by the late John Quinn )'', Exhibition and sale at the American Art Galleries, Sale conducted by Bernet and Parke, Published by American Art Association, New York, 1927〕 ''Brooklyn Bridge'' forms part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection.〔(Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection )〕 It was gifted to the museum by Solomon Guggenheim between 1937 (the year of the formation of the foundation) and 1949, or purchased by the foundation during those years. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.〔(Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Albert Gleizes, ''Brooklyn Bridge'', 1915 )〕 ==Description== ''Brooklyn Bridge'' is an oil and gouache painting on canvas with dimensions 102 x 102 cm (40 1/8 x 40 1/8 inches) inscribed "Brooklyn Bridge, Alb. Gleizes, 15, lower right. In a celebration of this feat of modernity, the architecture of the Brooklyn Bridge served as the inspiration for a series of works by Gleizes. In this first painting of the series, juxtaposed arabesques and distinctive diagonals interconnect dynamically, suggesting the bridge's complex architectonic engineering.〔(Albert Gleizes, ''On Brooklyn Bridge (Sur Brooklyn Bridge)'', Guggenheim Museum, New York )〕 As in earlier works by Gleizes, this canvas is directly engaged with the environment. While highly abstract, ''Brooklyn Bridge'' maintains an evident visual basis. From 1914 to the end of the New York period, however nonrepresentational, works by the artist continued to be shaped by his personal experience, by the conviction that art was a social function, susceptible to theoretical formulation, and imbued with optimism.〔(Daniel Robbins, 1964, ''Albert Gleizes 1881 – 1953, A Retrospective Exhibition'' ). Published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, in collaboration with Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund〕 In ''Du "Cubisme"'' Gleizes and Metzinger wrote: "...let us admit that the reminiscence of natural forms cannot be banished—in any event, not yet. An art cannot be raised to the level of pure effusion at the first step."〔''Du "Cubisme"'', Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, Paris, Figuière, 1912〕 Three years later, the transformation toward pure effusion would manifest itself in the ''Brooklyn Bridge'' and continue further still in subsequent works produced by the artist in New York.〔 The features of the bridge are described by forceful rhythms and colors, even though the actual bridge itself has disappeared; superseded by a synthesis of Gleizes's plastic equivalents of physical reality. The three Brooklyn Bridge paintings are a prime example of Gleizes's experimentation with the plastic translation of one of his most treasured themes: ''the city which draws life from the river''.〔 Already, in his 1913 publication ''The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations'', Guillaume Apollinaire drew parallels between the work of Gleizes and the realization of metal constructions such as bridges: :Majesty: this is what, above all, characterizes the art of Albert Gleizes. He thus brings a startling innovation to contemporary art. Something that before him was found in but few of the modern painters.〔(''The Little Review: Quarterly Journal of Art and Letters'', Vol. 9, No. 1: Stella Number, editor: Margaret C. Anderson, New York, 1922-09 (Autumn 1922), pp. 41–59. The Modernist Journals Project, Brown University and The University of Tulsa )〕〔(Herschel Browning Chipp, Peter Selz, ''Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics'', University of California Press, 1968, pp. 221-248 ), ISBN 0-520-01450-2〕 :This majesty arouses and provokes the imagination; considered from the plastic point of view, it is the immensity of things.〔〔 :This art is vigorous. The pictures of Albert Gleizes are realized by a force of the same sort as that which realized the Pyramids and the Cathedrals, the constructions in metal, the bridges and the tunnels. (Apollinaire, 1913)〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brooklyn Bridge (Gleizes)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|