Orchestration
In 1944 the composer Aaron Copland (1900–1990) premiered his groundbreaking orchestral suite titled “Appalachian Spring,” and the music exerted a profound influence on Morris Blackburn’s art. Combining modern rhythms with American folk songs, Copland modeled a way for Blackburn to merge two very different styles in his own work. In Orchestration, Blackburn combines the hard-edged shapes of cubism with more organic, biomorphic forms. Among the first artists in Philadelphia to explore screenprinting, Blackburn used the medium to develop abstract compositions with a distinctively bright palette.
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Kikuji Kawada’s Chizu
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Orchestration by Morris Blackburn
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“Primulas” from The Beauties of Flora
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New York and Environs
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Variation on the Qingming shanghe tu
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George Cruikshank’s All the World Going to See the Great Exhibition of 1851
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