Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Created by Albert Gleizes in 1942, "Painting for Contemplation, Dominant Rose and Green" is a larger-than-life abstract rectangular painting about 7 feet tall by almost 4 1/2 feet wide. It is made of oil on burlap. As alluded to by the painting’s title, various hues of rose and green dominate its color palate. Its composition is rou...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Broken Forms" by Franz Marc is a rectangular oil-on-canvas painting from 1914. It is about 3 1/2 feet tall by nearly 3 feet wide. The dynamic abstract composition features colorful shapes that are intersected by a large dark and angular form.  This painting’s colors are strong and include shades of tomato red, mustard yellow, emera...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Morgan Russell’s "Four Part Synchromy, Number 7," made from 1914 to 1915, consists of four small oil paintings on paperboard and canvas, mounted into a vertical rectangle on plywood. It is almost 1 1/2 feet tall and 1 foot wide. Its title refers to the early 20th-century artistic movement called Synchromism, a term that means “with...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Alexander Archipenko’s "Carrousel Pierrot," from 1913, is a painted plaster sculpture nearly 2 feet tall with a rectangular base around 2 feet wide by 1 foot deep. Brightly colored three-dimensional geometric shapes are assembled into an abstract human figure. The figure’s torso leans forward, and its legs are spread apart widely as...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Paris Through the Window" by Marc Chagall is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1913 that is about 4 1/2 feet square.  Two stylized figures — one a double-faced human head and pair of shoulders and the other a human-faced cat — face each other in profile along the bottom of the composition. The human figure sits in the bottom right cor...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Sonia Delaunay’s "Toy Box," from 1913, is a sculpture made of wood and painted with acrylic. Its body is a rectangular box around 8 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 9 inches deep. It has an upper lid that is hinged on one of its long sides. The lid gently rises in the middle to form a barrel-shape with an arching crest along the two...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: This work from 1913 by Sonia Delaunay is titled "Bal Bullier." It’s made of oil paint on mattress ticking. It is large and horizontally oriented, just over 3 feet tall and over 12 feet long. The surface is covered in colorful geometric, biomorphic, and curving shapes that seem to evoke specific forms but are somewhat unidentifiable...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Windows Open Simultaneously 1st Part, 3rd Motif" is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1912 by Robert Delaunay. It is an elongated oval ellipse almost 2 feet at its tallest and 4 feet at its widest. This painting is one in a series of works in which the artist explores representations of reality and abstraction through open-window moti...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Nude (Study), Sad Young Man in a Train" is a painting, most likely a self-portrait, by Marcel Duchamp from 1911, dated 1912. Measuring about 3 feet tall by 2 feet wide, it is a vertically oriented oil-on-canvas panel mounted to pressboard. In this dark painting, a figure standing in the center of the composition appears to be in mo...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Red Eiffel Tower" by Robert Delaunay is a rectangular oil-on-canvas painting from 1911 that measures about 4 feet tall by 3 feet wide. Its primary subject is an abstracted view of the iconic Eiffel Tower. It’s rendered, unusually, in a vermillion, or Venetian red, reflecting the structure’s appearance during the 1889 World’s Fair i...

Access a slow-looking description of this work. Transcript Narrator: This oil-on-canvas painting by František Kupka from 1912 to 1913 is titled "Localization of Graphic Motifs II." The nonrepresentational composition, measuring about six-and-a-half feet square, is full of repeating forms. The colors blue, grass green, violet pink, and red orange stand out as they recur and diminish across the canv...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic)" by Francis Picabia is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1913 that measures about 10 feet square. The work features shapes in a cacophony of bold colors that form a dynamic abstract composition and convey three-dimensionality and movement.   Black tones command the painting’s grand, larger-than-life scale. Dee...

Mariët Westermann, Director and CEO, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum introduces the exhibition. Transcript Mariët Westermann: Hello, I am Mariet Wëstermann. I’m the Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and I’m also the curator of this special exhibition, "Piet Mondrian: Ever further." Piet Mondrian is one of my favorite artists of all time, so I’m really glad that you came.  When I h...

Descubra más sobre "Armonía y Disonancia" con el equipo curatorial de la exposición. Transcript Tracey Bashkoff: Bienvenido al Guggenheim. Soy Tracey Bashkoff. Vivien Greene: Y yo soy Vivien Greene. Juntas curamos esta exposición, "Armonía y disonancia: orfismo en París, 1910-1930." Bellara Huang: Y yo soy Bellara Huang. Colaboré con Tracey y Vivien durante los dos últimos años de este proyecto. B...

Nicolas Chuaqui performs his original composition “Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten," 2024. Chuaqui’s “Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten” (“I feel air from another planet”) connects Kandinsky’s painting to Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2 (1908), drawing from Schoenberg’s setting of his string quartet on Stefan George’s poem “Entrückung” and the groundbreaking inclusion of a soprano...

Pianist John Bitoy performs an excerpt of Isaac Albéniz’s "Cantos de España," Op. 232, Preludio (Asturias [Leyenda]), composed in the late nineteenth-century. Isaac Albéniz’s flamenco piano piece pairs with Albert Gleizes’ abstracted depiction of a dancer. Gleizes produced a series of paintings of Spanish dancers while he was in Barcelona from spring to December of 1916. About the Performer John B...

Pianist John Bitoy performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s "Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor," Op. 90, composed in 1814. The American Synchromists Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright revered the Classical period music composer Ludwig van Beethoven and loosely transposed musical concepts to their paintings. Joining four parts, like Beethoven’s piano sonatas, most of which are in three or four movemen...

Kate Ragan presents her original composition “blink blank, blink blot,” 2024. “Blink blank, blink blot” embodies Archipenko’s polychromatic palette and circular sense of motion in "Carrousel Pierrot," 1913 by passing material and repeated pitches between different instruments. The piece captures Archipenko’s negative space through a sparse texture populated with rests and exposed moments of repose...

Patrick Holcomb performs his original composition “Carousel After Milhaud and Archipenko,” 2024. In writing “Carousel after Milhaud and Archipenko,” Holcomb took as his point of departure Darius Milhaud’s “Le Tango des Fratellini” and Alexander Archipenko’s "Carrousel Pierrot," 1913. “Le Tango des Fratellini,” an extract from Milhaud’s ballet Le bœuf sur le toit (1919–20), is based on “Tristeza de...

Nicolas Chuaqui performs his original composition “Le Tango de Pierrot,” 2024. “Le Tango de Pierrot” blends Darius Milhaud’s “Le Tango des Fratellini” (1919–20) with Archipenko’s "Carrousel Pierrot," 1913. In Chuaqui’s composition, the sound of Milhaud’s tango is manipulated to depict Pierrot’s character as both a sad clown and observer of the human condition, and to evoke the form of Archipenko’s...

Pianist John Bitoy performs an excerpt of Johann Sebastian Bach’s "The Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857, published in 1722. František Kupka looked to the fugue, a musical structure characterized by interweaving and repeating a primary theme and one or more contrasting themes, as inspiration for "Disks of Newton (Study for “Fugue in Two Colors”)." Through the work’s...

Kate Ragan presents her original composition “streaking strains dry,” 2024. Sudden, extreme, dynamic, and textural shifts in “streaking strains dry,” 2024 portray Kandinsky’s expressionistic and abstract style in "Improvisation 28 (Second Version)," 1912. Kandinsky’s apocalyptic and themes manifest in active, agitated, rhythmically offset material whereas his salvatory themes manifest through slow...

Patrick Holcomb performs his original composition “Rapture After Schoenberg and Kandinsky,” 2024. “Rapture after Schoenberg and Kandinsky” is inspired by Vasily Kandinsky’s "Improvisation 28 (Second Version)," 1912 and the final movement of Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, “Entrückung,” 1908. In Holcomb’s work, Schoenberg’s opening gesture becomes distant thunder, and the subsequent melo...

Europe’s Society Orchestra performs “Castle Walk,” 1914, composed by James Reese Europe. Orphist artists looked to popular dance and music of the time. After a transformative trip to New York in 1913, Picabia incorporated many impressions of the city into his art, including the syncopations of early jazz he heard in Harlem.

Transcript Tracey Bashkoff: Welcome to the Guggenheim. I’m Tracey Bashkoff, Senior Director of Collections, and Senior Curator.   Vivien Greene: And I’m Vivien Greene, Senior Curator of 19th and Early 20th Century Art. We curated this exhibition, "Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930."   Bellara Huang: I am Bellara Huang, Curatorial Assistant of Exhibitions, and I supported Tracey a...