Contemporary art: -isms and -arts of the 20th century - course 3375 rub. from Level One, training 5 lectures for 2 hours, Date: December 3, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 03, 2023
The course will help you fall in love with 20th century art. In 5 weeks, we will understand the main trends and names of contemporary art, find reasons to admire it, and also find out how it became exactly that way. Expert Alina Aksyonova will show how different art can be, and from which side it is better to approach it in order to see the main thing.
Art historian, guide and lecturer at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin 2010-2019, author of the book “History of Art. Just about the important things." She taught art history at school, university, and the Pushkin Museum, and spoke about it in her radio program and at the French Lyceum. For several years she participated in archaeological excavations of the ancient Greek city of Olbia.
"I talk about the culture that shapes us. What is important to me are phenomena that help us understand the context in which everything happens. Time of creation, history of the idea, customers, history with facts and legends, with terms and a poetic component. Events that occurred during the creation of works of art, around them, with their participation, or beyond them."
Alina builds connections between religion and architecture, art and the political system, explains cultural phenomena and puts them into context. Alina has been conducting daily excursions and lectures at the Pushkin Museum for many years, and is able to explain unfamiliar terms, art movements, or objects to any audience. Understanding the Baroque through the invention of the microscope and the discoveries of Giordano Bruno, as well as hundreds of less familiar images and metaphors in one lecture - this is about Alina. Alina is loved for her lively speech, which is impossible to tear yourself away from, her classical art criticism approach and extensive encyclopedic knowledge.
Dada and surrealism: a new look at art and reality
- Let's discuss the experiments of the Dadaists, the absurd in art and art in the absurd.
- Let’s find out the power and meaning of the works of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Joan Miro and other surrealists.
- Let’s find out what landscapes Magritte and Dali loved, and what the game of “nonsense” has in common with the principle of painting a surreal painting.
- Let's see how Picasso and Chagall influenced surrealism, and how surrealism influenced them.
Abstract Expressionism: Freedom of Expression
- Let’s take a look at American art at the beginning of the 20th century and examine “normal” painting using the example of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.”
- Let's see how the stars of American abstract art Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko saw beauty, we will discuss Pollock's “action painting” and Rothko and Newman’s “color field painting.”
- Let's understand the philosophies of different techniques: existentialism, Jung's theory, Zen Buddhism.
Pop art and kitsch: mass culture and recognizable images
- Let us remember Baudrillard, Fromm and the term “consumer society”.
- Let's find out that the works of Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol are actually complex and philosophical.
- Let's discuss the laws of kitsch and the concept of postmodernism, and at the same time find depth in the clothespin monument.
Conceptualism, minimalism, land art, performance: the viewer as an integral part of art
- Let's discuss the strange messages Joseph Kosuth left on street banners.
- Let's get acquainted with the lighting compositions of Dan Flavin, the minimalism of Donald Judd and the outrageousness of Jan Faber and Damien Hirst.
- Let’s understand the importance of the world-famous performances of Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono and Marina Abramovic.
- Let’s find out how land art differs from landscape design and what makes it great.
- Let's learn to take performance seriously and see art in actions, not objects.
Street art: a challenge to society and art for the people
- We will learn the styles and characteristics of different street artists in America, Europe and Russia, understand their views on art and unexpected methods of work.
- Let's discuss Banksy - the most amazing hooligan and number 1 star in world art.
- Let’s look at the works of Keith Haring with his flying saucers and “dancing men.”