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...director of Manhattan's new Guggenheim Museum flout the wishes of its famed architect-designer, Frank Lloyd Wright? See ART, Last Monument...
Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), opened to the public last week. Discord and controversy had marked it since the day it was commissioned 16 years ago. Wright had proposed "one great space on a continuous floor," a gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome...
...Athena in the Parthenon for this place," worried Sculptor William Zorach. "Even when he made a mistake, he made a big one," opined Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. But, looking across the well at the opening show of 134 paintings and sculptures selected from the 2,500-odd works in the Guggenheim collection, most were forced to concede that the great curved ramps provided the most dramatic setting abstract art has ever...
This dominance of central theme should perhaps have been muted. Wright himself should perhaps have been muted, in that his power as an artist makes lesser artists pale. Though Modigliani and Miro may stand up in the Guggenheim Museum, though Leonardo would appear well there, products of lesser painters might be at greater advantage elsewhere...
...challenging painters and sculptors to match his genius, Wright created a very real and exciting tension, if a formidable one. Harry F. Guggenheim, Chairman of the Board of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, commented on the occasion saying, "Let each man exercise the art he knws." Frank Lloyd Wright exercised his; he left a challenge for the artists to match...