Susan Guggenheim Museum

The Susan Guggenheim repository in New York is the first of the museum created by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Guggenheimarte moderno Guggenheim, dedicated to modern art. Founded in 1937 in Upper East Side, NY, it is best known of all the museums of the foundation, and is often called simply "The Guggenheim." It was initially called the Museum of non-objective painting, and was founded to showcase avant-garde art of early modern artists as Kandinsky and Mandarin. In 1959 he moved to the place where you are now (corner of 89th Street and 5th Avenue, opposite Central Park), when completed the building designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright (www.nr.nps.gov). The form of the proposal was very controversial, so the museum took 15 years to build, culminating 10 years after the death of Solomon Guggenheim and six months after the death of Frank L. Wright. The construction itself became a work of art. From the street, the building looks like a white ribbon wrapped around a cylindrical shape, slightly wider on top than below. espiral Internally, the galleries form a spiral . Thus, the visitor sees the work as you walk through the spiral ramp, like a walk.

1992 In 1992 the building was supplemented by attaching a rectangular tower, taller than the original spiral. This modification of Wright's original design generated much controversy (www.guggenheim.org). The Wright building has been the victim of some criticisms made by artists who feel that the building overshadows the works displayed there and that is difficult to properly hang paintings.

History

Guided by his art adviser, the German decorator Hilla Rebay, Solomon Guggenheim started to assemble works by nonobjective creative persons in 1929. (For Rebay, the phrase "nonobjective" signified the religious dimensions of untainted abstraction.) Guggenheim first began to show his work from his apartment, and as the collection increased, he established The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937. Guggenheim and Rebay opened the base for the "promotion and support and education in art and the enlightenment of the public." hired boat by the Board of Regents of New York State, the Foundation was endowed to function one or more repositories; Solomon Guggenheim was voted into office its first leader and Rebay its Director.

At the Guggenheim collection's first public showing space, a previous automobile showroom on East Fifty-Fourth road in New York town, called the repository of Non-Objective decorating, Rebay oversaw exhibitions of revolutionary new types of art evolved by artists like Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian. In 1943, Guggenheim commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design and build a enduring dwelling for the collection. Wright conceived of his spiral conceive as a space where the tourist could view art "truthfully." He accepted that the construction would force visitors to rethink their ideas about architecture in much the identical way that nonobjective art compelled viewers to reassess the delineation of decorating and sculpture (a b c "Last Monument, A32). The designed construction directly became the locus of considerable controversy. After important economic, political, and thoughtful ...