Arshile Gorky at the PMA

A few weeks ago I found time to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art to view the Arshile Gorky exhibition. Here is what the PMA website says about the show:

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective

Now Through January 10, 2010

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (c. 1902-1948), a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art. This exhibition, which includes about 178 works of art, surveys Gorky’s entire career from the early 1920s until his death by suicide in 1948.

I thought the show was informative and thought provoking. I always enjoy seeing a retrospective as I feel it provides one with a better understanding of the artist's aesthetic development.

I highly recommend seeing this exhibition. It is only up until January!


Arshile Gorky
Woman with a Palette
1927
Oil on Canvas

One of the most informative characteristics of the exhibition was that it showed direct influences of Gorky and briefly described these influences. The painting pictured above was one of those influenced paintings.