Wassily Kandinsky
Kleine Welten VII, 1922
Lithograph color
10 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches
Modernist Prints: 1900-1955
From Syracuse University Art Collection
at The A. E. Backus Museum
Fort Pierce, Jan 13th thru Feb 18th
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by Isadora Rangel
Visitors of the A.E. Backus Museum will have the chance to see the
work of modernists such as Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky for $2.
The museum is presenting prints by these and others artists during
Modernist Prints: 1900-1955, a traveling exhibition from the Syracuse
University Art Collection coming to Fort Pierce from Jan. 13 through
Feb. 18.
The show brings 30 prints from across the modernist movement's
spectrum, from impressionism through abstraction and pure
non-objectivist designs.
Works by Joan Miró and the Americans Arthur B. Davies and Milton
Avery will share the room. The prints were created through etching,
woodcutting, lithography, stenciling, screen-printing and engraving
...
The exhibition also will feature a 5-foot-by-5-foot 1967 transparent
silk screen print by Andy Warhol of Marilyn Monroe, which is owned by a
local collector.Read the Article here
Beenie Backus was asked once what he thought of Warhol and his soup cans. His answer was simple; "If I had been a poor kid from New York, I would probably find soup cans beautiful too. But why would I paint soup cans when I have all of Florida!" Backus was however a lover of everything modern and stayed abreast of all the latest music and art trends. I think he would love to know his old studio is the venue that brought modernism to Fort Pierce. GL
A. E. Backus Museum website
Syracuse University Art Galleries website
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