Robert Moskowitz / Untitled (Empire State Building) / 1980Robert Moskowitz
Untitled (Empire State Building)
1980

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Creator Name: Moskowitz, Robert
Creator Dates/Places: American, born 1935
Creator Name-CRT: Robert Moskowitz
Title: Untitled (Empire State Building)
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1980
Creation End Date: 1980
Creation Date: 1980
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Graphite, pastel on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 106 x 31 1/4 in. (269.24 x 79.38 cm.)
AMICA Contributor: Dallas Museum of Art
Owner Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
ID Number: 1995.147
Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Marguerite and Robert K. Hoffman
Rights: http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org
Context: Robert Moskowitz has blended the border between literalness and abstraction since the 1960s. In the 1970s, he became a prominent leader of the New Image movement (from the Whitney Museum's 1978 exhibition "New Image Painting"). Following a decade dominated by minimalism, this group of artists, which included Nicholas Africano, Neil Jenney, and Susan Rothenberg, brought back figural imagery as a vital formal tool as well as a psychologically charged instrument.Moskowitz is interested in architectural structures as a means to explore the balance between abstraction and representation. In the 1970s he created "rooms," an arrangement of doorways, corners, and beams on a single color field, which relates to American precisionism, most notably the work of Demuth and Sheeler. In the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Moskowitz began to create epic-scale works of Western cultural and popular icons?Rodin's "Thinker," Brancusi's "Bird," the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, the Flatiron Building?as well as smokestacks and lighthouses. These concise, familiar images on elusive, textured bckgrounds reveal Moskowitz's connections to both pop art and abstract expressionism.Tall and thin, the iconic "Empire State Building" appears to rise endlessly against a dark background. It contains a wonderful tension between surface and depth. Parts of the building, alternately solid and dappled, are luminous. Of both monumental and human scale, this image ironically elicits feelings of grandeur and intimacy."Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection," page 289
AMICA ID: DMA_.1995.147
AMICA Library Year: 2003
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