Pollock To Pop: America's Brush With Dal�

Pollock To Pop Americas Brush With Dal
The Salvador Dal� Museum To Explore Relationship Between American Artists and Salvador Dal� in Pollock To Pop: America's Brush With Dal�.

Pollock To Pop: America's Brush With Dal�, which will provide insight to the relationship between post-WWII American Art and Dal�'s work from that era.

The exhibition will present a moment in the history of art of great change, positioning major works of American post war art, especially those in the manner of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in dialog with one another and with the painting of Salvador Dal�.

Featuring some of the most significant works of modern art, Pollock To Pop: America's Brush With Dal� will run from December 9, 2005 until April 23, 2006.

"It is the aim of this exhibition to explore artistic dialogue in a sophisticated and multi-dimensional sense," said William Jeffett, Curator of Special Exhibitions.

"The exhibition explores the panorama of options available to Dal� in the post-war years, highlighting those especially he saw on his habitual visits to New York each winter in the decades after the war," he added.

Pollock To Pop: America's Brush With Dal� will include art borrowed from major American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., private collections and foundations.