Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections

EXHIBITIONS

June 2011

Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections 06.14.2011 - 01.08.2012 In the devastating aftermath of World War II and under the wing of Existentialist philosophy, European artists turned to expressive hybridization and synthesis as opposed to the utopian and experimental values that had marked the artists of previous generations. For those artists in Franco's Spain and Eastern Europe still oppressed by political and aesthetic tyranny, works of art signified political liberation. Art Informel, or art without form, encompasses a wide array of abstract practices and painterly methods that emerged in this postwar era.