Lineage: Paul Klee and Ruth Asawa
Drawing on works from both artists, the show illuminates the ways in which Asawa absorbed and transformed Klee's ideas into a wholly original visual language. Visitors are invited to trace the threads of influence that run between Klee's lyrical abstractions and Asawa's intricate, looping wire forms, discovering a lineage that is at once intellectual, formal, and deeply personal.
About the artist
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
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Ruth Aiko Asawa was an American modernist artist primarily known for her abstract looped-wire sculptures inspired by natural and organic forms. In addition to her three-dimensional work, Asawa created figurative and abstract drawings and prints influenced by nature, particularly flowers and plants.
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over…
