Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

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This exhibition reveals a rare cross-cultural artistic dialogue among three prominent artists—American painter Jackson Pollock, American artist and patron of European and American postwar art, Alfonso Ossorio, and French painter Jean Dubuffet.

The Phillips Collection


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    Corps de dame–Château d'Etoupe (Body of a Lady–“Stuffed Castle”), 1950 by Jean Dubuffet

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    Stop 1 Ossorio's Full Mother and Dubuffet’s Corps de Dame reflect the artists’ belief that, according to Dubuffet, “Painting is a more immediate and direct vehicle than verbal language, much closer to the cry.”

    Perpetual Sacrifice, 1949 by Alfonso Ossorio

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2013 2:02


    Stop 2 In Perpetual Sacrifice, an extraordinary array of individual elements and distinct layers is combined into a harmonious yet disconcerting unison.

    Collage and Oil, c. 1951 by Jackson Pollock

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2013 1:39


    Stop 3 Pollock’s Collage and Oil and Number 2, 1951 contain torn, wrinkled fragments of Japanese paper soaked in glue that had been splattered with orange gouache and black paint or ink.

    Red Family, 1951 by Alfonso Ossorio

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2013 2:19


    Stop 4 Ossorio returns over and over to the motifs of mother and child, family, angel, crucifix—the traditional iconography of Catholicism, the faith of his childhood.

    Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950 by Jackson Pollock

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2013 3:01


    Stop 5 Bought by Alfonso Ossorio in 1951, Lavender Mist exemplifies Pollock’s interest in experimentation and in expanding the language of traditional easel painting.

    Reforming Figure, 1952 by Alfonso Ossorio

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    Stop 6 In Reforming Figure there is tremendous detail and layering; Ossorio creates an incredible sense of veils, forms, and color.

    The Child Returns, 1950 by Alfonso Ossorio

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2013 1:45


    Stop 7 The Child Return is one in a series of highly personal paintings made by Ossorfio during his visit to the Philippines, filled with references to his Catholic faith and themes of birth, childhood, family life, and death.

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