At the beginning of the twentieth
century many artists were influenced by the new representation of
realityvia the style and theory of Picasso's Cubism. Initially following
Picasso's analysis of forms and space using transparency and planar
fragmentation, Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941) in France and Piet
Mondrian (1872 - 1944) in Holland gradually replaced their
observations of the natural work with abstraction focusing on
concepts of movement and balance. A slide-lecture describes how Delaunay turned toward the universal circle with prismatic colors
and when Mondrian developed rectangular grids with primary colors.
During the spring and summer of 2010,
four American east coast art museums – The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, MOMA, The Philadelphia Museum and The Clark – will
feature special exhibitions
devoted to Picassos art. The two lectures by Irene Wisoff (this one
and "Artists' Models") will present his art from other perspectives.
Sign up for both and save $10 (use course ID "Series16A" below).
IRENE WISOFF is an art educator
and lecturer with graduate degrees from Columbia University in Fine
Arts Education and Art History.
At the beginning of the twentieth
century many artists were influenced by the new representation of
realityvia the style and theory of Picasso's Cubism. Initially following
Picasso's analysis of forms and space using transparency and planar
fragmentation, Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941) in France and Piet
Mondrian (1872 - 1944) in Holland gradually replaced their
observations of the natural work with abstraction focusing on
concepts of movement and balance. A slide-lecture describes how Delaunay turned toward the universal circle with prismatic colors
and when Mondrian developed rectangular grids with primary colors.