Temporary exhibitions that showcase the career
output of a single artist are the most visible way in which museums can have an immediate effect on artists» profiles.
Not exact matches
Indeed, the similarities allow a different path to understanding many contemporary
artists, whose
output makes use
of systems and structures — similar to the notations and instructions
of sheet music — that attempt to remove the hand
of the maker, yet also present these variations under the guise
of a
single name.
In this regard, the position
of the classical composer is not so different from that
of the conceptual
artist, whose work makes use
of systems and structures to remove the hand
of the maker, yet also resolve a varied
output of work under the guise
of a
single name.
This question may well be the province
of the new Clyfford Still museum, which bests any other hagiographic museum dedicated to a
single artist's work, in possessing 94 %
of his lifetime
output: 825 paintings, 1,575 works on paper and 3 sculptures.
Where previous monographs have focused on a
single genre within the
artist's vast
output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half - century
of activity, including photo - paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
In both process and result — Rauschenberg and Weil shared the roles
of model and maker — the double portraits spring from an impulse to collaborate and connect that forms the
single most important through line in this
artist's extraordinary, ever - changing
output.