Visit the home of American Abstract Artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen, set on a 46-acre estate in the heart of Lenox, Massachusetts. View their paintings, frescoes, and sculpture; experience their exquisite collection of American and European Cubist Art.
Basic principles of color are emphasized on the tour and interactive exhibits using digital demonstrations with tablets or silkscreen paper are available in the Studio. Visitors can digitally or manually manipulate colors in templates of the artworks they have viewed. The activity promises to draw the visitor closer to the process of creating art.
In the early 20th century avant guard Cubist artists in Paris eliminated color from their compositions. Their paintings employed only a palette of grays with lines and planes with brushstrokes of light and shade. The results showed the artists of that generation that color could be a subject in its own right, released from the role of depicting familiar objects and scenes.
The exhibit celebrates the use of color in this new found freedom by artists in the decades that followed, and how color as an expressive tool speaks directly to the viewer's emotions without additional narrative.
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You didn't miss the enriching lectures at FMH&S. Click below to experience the first lecture by Clark Art History Professor, Kristina Wilson.
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Using newly restored and edited films from Morris' 1934 Far Eastern voyage and a selection of Morris' late work, viewers are encouraged to make plausible connections between the paintings and films, and to arrive at possibly one avenue of interpretation.
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