Detail View: The AMICA Library: Untitled (Empire State Building)
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AMICA ID:
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DMA_.1995.147
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AMICA Library Year:
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2003
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Moskowitz, Robert
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Creator Dates/Places:
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American, born 1935
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Robert Moskowitz
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Title:
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Untitled (Empire State Building)
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1980
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Creation Start Date:
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1980
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Creation End Date:
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1980
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Materials and Techniques:
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Graphite, pastel on paper
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Dimensions:
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Overall: 106 x 31 1/4 in. (269.24 x 79.38 cm.)
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AMICA Contributor:
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Dallas Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Dallas, Texas, USA
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ID Number:
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1995.147
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Credit Line:
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Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Marguerite and Robert K. Hoffman
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Rights:
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Context:
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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
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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DMA_.1995_147.tif
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