Survey the history of art in the atomic age with an expert guide
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents an expansive survey of modern art in the Atomic Age. Featuring more than 250 pieces from major public and private collections, highlights include the contorted faces in Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Portrait” (1976) and Salvador Dalí’s sad surrealist scene in “Uranium and Atomica Melancholica Idyll” (1945), both of which you will get to see on this guided tour.
Explore the connections between art, science, and politics as you move through the show’s three thematic sections — reflecting on the disintegration of matter, the atomic bomb’s historical legacy, and the creeping nuclearization of the world — and see how artists responded in myriad and moving ways to the implications of nuclear power: in paintings, photographs, installations, and previously unseen archival material.
Image: Charles Bittinger, “Late Stage of Baker,” 1946. Credit: Navy Art Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command
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