POSTWAR DIRECTIONS  ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM TO MINIMALISM 

http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=383
07.22.06 - 10.09.06   
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, highlights its rich and
extensive collection of mid-century American and European art in an
exhibition that explores the art and artists that both influenced and
were influenced by Robert Rauschenberg and his generation. Postwar
Directions: Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism, on view at MOCA Grand
Avenue July 22–October 15, 2006, brings together approximately 55 works
in various media.

The core of MOCA’s permanent collection is a group of 80 Abstract
Expressionist and Pop Art masterpieces purchased in 1984 from the
collection of Count and Countess Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. Building upon
the Panza Collection, the museum established the most significant
grouping of postwar art on the West Coast, and Postwar Directions draws
from this rich collection to make visual observations concerning
influences and interrelationships between the above movements and, for
example, Color Field and Minimalist painting—incorporating works by such
masters as Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd,
Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Jackson
Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol.