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+ The Solomon
R. Guggenheim Foundation was incorporated in 1937, and
the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, as it was then known,
was established two years later. The museum—which
assumed temporary residence in a former automobile showroom
on East 54th Street in New York—took as its basis
the radical new forms of art being developed by such artists
as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian.
The
insistence of philanthropist Solomon Guggenheim and
artist-adviser Hilla Rebay on a wholly new kind of art
seen in a wholly new kind of space set the institution
on its unique path. The first permanent home for the
museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. He envisioned
a building that not only broke the rectilinear grid
of Manhattan but also shattered existing notions of
what a museum could be. He conceived of its curving,
continuous space as a "temple of spirit" where
viewers could foster a new way of looking. Named the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in honor of its founder,
the building opened in 1959, drawing huge crowds and
stirring considerable controversy. It has never lost
its power to excite and provoke, standing today as one
of the great works of architecture produced in the twentieth
century.
Website
: www.guggenheim.org
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