Guggenheim Museum
Video: Harmony & Dissonance” at the Guggenheim
Featuring over 90 artworks to be presented in the museum’s iconic rotunda, this major exhibition will examine the vibrant abstract art of Orphism. It will explore the transnational movement’s developments in Paris, addressing the impact dance, music, and poetry had on the art, among other themes.
Orphism emerged in the early 1910s, when the innovations brought about by modern life were radically altering conceptions of time and space. Artists connected to Orphism engaged with ideas of simultaneity in kaleidoscopic compositions, investigating the transformative possibilities of color, form, and motion. Selected works by artists including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, and by the Synchromists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, will be on view.
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Senior Director of Collections and Senior Curator, and Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, with the support of Bellara Huang, Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions.
IMAGES
Marc Chagall, Homage to Apollinaire (Hommage à Apollinaire), 1913. Oil on canvas, 78 7/8 × 74 5/8 in. (200.4 × 189.5 cm). Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, with support of Vereniging Rembrandt. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Peter Cox, Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Robert Delaunay, Red Eiffel Tower (La Tour rouge), 1911–12. Oil on canvas, 49 1/4 × 35 3/8 (125 × 90.3 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 46.1036. Photo: Midge Wattles, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Albert Gleizes, On Brooklyn Bridge (Sur Brooklyn Bridge), 1917. Oil on canvas, 63 3/4 × 51 in. (161.8 × 129.5 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 37.489. © Estate of Albert Gleizes / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Ariel Ione Williams, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Mainie Jellett, Painting, 1938. Oil on canvas, 29 15/16 × 25 7/16 in. (76 × 64.6 cm). National Museums NI, Ulster Museum Collection, Northern Ireland, Donated by the Thomas Haverty Trust. Photo: National Museums NI
František Kupka, Disks of Newton (Study for “Fugue in Two Colors”) (Disques de Newton [Étude pour “La fugue à 2 couleurs”]),1912. Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 × 29 in. (100.3 × 73.7 cm). The Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Francis Picabia, Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic) (Edtaonisl [Ecclésiastique]), 1913. Oil on canvas, 118 × 118 in. (299.7 × 299.7 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Armand Bartos, 1953. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY