Guggenheim Museums
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a modern art museum, established in 1937, is located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the most prominent of several museums founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is well-known simply as The Guggenheim. It is quite often referred to as Museum Mile.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has been running several of the Guggenheim Museums established in such famous cities as Berlin, Venice, Las Vegas and Bilbao. The Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened in 1997, has been mentioned in the Guinness Book of World Records for possessing the largest single gallery space in the world, with a length of 137.16 m.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is situated in one of the most intriguing buildings you have ever seen, presenting a nice balance between art and practicalness. The construction is distinctive even among other New York's buildings. Built as a spiral, in a subdued white color, it will not slip the attention of any passersby.
The Museum's Collection
The visitors of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are provided with the chance to enjoy viewing some fine collections of universally famous artists like Picasso, Chagall, and many other modern artists. The major part of the collection comprises paintings, but sculptures and photos have also been displayed in the museum.
The collection has been expanded several times. In 1976, a significant collection of paintings by Gauguin, Picasso, van Gogh and many others were gifted by Justin K. Thannhauser. In 1990, over 200 works of American Minimalist art joined the collection.
Solomon R. Guggenheim started the collection in the late 1920s. The original name of the museum was "The Museum of Non-Objective Painting." It was founded to demonstrate and support avant-garde art created by the most gifted modernists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. Since 1959 the museum has been located at the corners of 89th Street and Fifth Avenue, overlooking Central Park. Frank Lloyd Wright, the most renowned American architect at the time, was asked to design the building.
The Building's Design
The initial idea of the architect was to design a square building and paint it in bright red. The building itself has been appreciated as the best-known work of art. If you are on the street, the building resembles a white ribbon craped into a cylindrical stack, with the top part a little wider than the bottom one. Inside the construction, the viewing gallery presents a gentle spiral from the ground level up to the top. Paintings are hung out along the walls of the spiral, as well as in viewing rooms placed at stages along the way.
In 1992, an adjoining rectangular 10-story tower taller than the original spiral was added to the building. The renovation was undertaken by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates architects that created the tower corresponding to Frank Lloyd Wrigth's original drawings.
The priority of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is to support and encourage the understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, and other forms of modern and contemporary visual culture. Its responsibilities include collecting, preserving, and researching art pieces, as well as making them accessible to scholars and a growing part of audience through organizing a chain of museums, programs, educational enterprises, and publications.
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