The main isms in the art of the 20th century - course 3675 rubles. from Synchronization, training 20 hours, Date: December 4, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 06, 2023
Synchronization is one of the largest lecture halls in Russia. We provide online courses on psychology, history, cinema, painting and more.
"Synchronization" is a Russian educational platform launched by Maria Borodetskaya and Andrey Lobanov. They offer online courses in a popular science format (psychology, art, cinema, economics, architecture, fashion and design, literature, philosophy, religion, music, etc.)
The cultural platform “Synchronization” is an educational project whose goal is to talk interestingly about striking phenomena, trends, personalities in culture and science. “Synchronization” lectures attract more than 2.5 thousand people every month. a person, offering listeners new and new topics and directions, talking simply about complex things.
Currently, Synchronization conducts more than 200 lectures per month in 19 main areas (painting, architecture, history, philosophy, cinema, fashion, etc.). According to the founders of the project, the most popular area is lectures on painting, which occupy about 30% of the entire lecture program.
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“I am researching Russian art of the 19th and 20th centuries. I’m trying to systematize what’s happening in contemporary art through interviews with young artists for the podcast “What are you doing?” Most of all, I like to determine how different artistic phenomena are related to each other, how the artist’s individual style was formed, and how to reveal veiled symbols and meanings. Art criticism is a science that helps to read visual images, to see more than just an image landscape or black square, but the story that accompanies the appearance of each work on light. In this dialogue with art, doors can be opened to a variety of fields of knowledge.”
The first exhibition of French impressionists in Paris took place in 1874. The Russian painter Vasily Polenov also appeared there, who, together with Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin, developed the ideas and techniques of impressionism on Russian soil. Russian impressionists differed from the French: they used more complex and earthy colors and painted works over a long period of time, rather than in a couple of plein air sessions.
Lesson 2
Neo-primitivism
Gauguin, Matisse, Rousseau, Pirosmani
Artists of the early 20th century wanted to look at the world with an open mind. To do this, they turned to naive art: Gauguin went to Tahiti for inspiration, Picasso looked for beauty in ancient wooden figurines and masks, and Matisse experimented with pure color, as in medieval stained glass. Russian artists chose a more radical path: they began to imitate the style of folk art.
Lesson 3
Cubism and Futurism
Picasso, Braque, Malevich
In the late 1900s, Cubism appeared in France, and Futurism appeared in Italy. The Cubists tried to depict an object from several sides at once, and the Futurists tried to glorify speed and show the object in motion. They abandoned classical ideas about working with form and color and moved closer to abstraction. Russian artists in the mid-1910s combined and transformed these theories and created a new direction - Cubo-Futurism.
Lesson 4
Constructivism
Rodchenko, Stepanova, Tatlin, Ginzburg
Constructivism simultaneously emerged in the late 1920s in the USSR and Europe and sought to make art more functional. For example, the main Soviet constructivists - Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova - drew advertising posters and sketches for industrial products. At that time, their colleagues at the Bauhaus school in Germany were solving approximately the same problems: they were designing houses of the future and were engaged in design.
Lesson 5
Expressionism
Kirchner, Kandinsky, Mark, Deineka
In Europe, expressionism appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century and was represented by two prominent groups artists: “The Bridge” led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and “The Blue Rider” by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Brand. The expressionists sought to convey feelings on canvas and to do this they used colors and deformed the shapes of the human body. In Russia, this movement began to develop in 1994, when an exhibition of German expressionists was held in Moscow.
Lesson 6
Abstractionism
Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich
The first abstract works appeared in the 1910s simultaneously by several artists. In Russia, Kazimir Malevich wrote “Black Suprematist Square”, Wassily Kandinsky in Germany - expressive improvisations, and Piet Mondrian in Holland - compositions of horizontal and vertical figures. To contemporaries of artists, non-objective painting seemed something revolutionary, but after the Second World War, the language of abstraction became the only possible one for many painters.
Lesson 7
Conceptualism
Kossuth, Kabakov, Pivovarov
Conceptualists believe that the main thing in a work of art is the idea. Thanks to her, an ordinary urinal or any other household item can become a masterpiece. The first conceptual works of the Frenchman Marcel Duchamp appeared back in the 20s, and conceptualism finally took shape in the West only half a century later. In the USSR, conceptualism developed in the 70s and 80s and was distinguished by the fact that it analyzed the boundaries of Soviet reality and, for example, life in a communal apartment.
Lesson 8
Pop Art
Warhol, Liechtenstein, Bulatov
At the webinar we will talk about the works of the most famous pop art artists Warhol and Lichtenstein. Let's find out why the artist Tom Wesselman depicted naked American women and why he called these girls great. We will find out how Soviet artists in the 70s created a new direction at the intersection of socialist realism and pop art - social art, and see how socialist art ridiculed propaganda in the USSR.
Lesson 9
Hyperrealism
Close, Betchley, Faibisovich
Hyperrealism arose in the United States in the late 60s and announced, in the words of philosopher Jean Baudrillard, the death of reality. Hyperrealists tried to comprehend the world around them, but in an unusual way: they took a photograph and copied it on an enlarged scale onto canvas. In Russia, the heyday of hyperrealism occurred in the late 70s, when the conflict between man and Soviet reality intensified.
At the webinar we will see what technical techniques hyperrealists used to transfer images from photographic photographs onto canvas. Let's find out why artists paid attention to shiny and reflective objects and why hyperrealism was not banned in the USSR. Let's see what scenes from Soviet life were captured in their works by the main Russian hyperrealists Semyon Faibisovich and Sergei Sherstyuk.
Lesson 10
Actionism
Klein, Abramovich, E.T.I, “War”
Actionism blurs the boundaries between life and art and proves that the artist and his actions have the same value as the painting. The beginnings of actionism can already be found in the work of the avant-garde artists of the early 20th century and in the way Kazimir Malevich walked around Moscow with a wooden spoon in his buttonhole. In the West, performance art flourished in the 60s, and in Russia only in the 90s.
At the webinar we will learn what the artistic tactics of “attack” and “direct action” are and compare the actions of Russian and Western artists. Let's figure out why the Frenchman Yves Klein coated naked models with paint and rolled them across the canvas, while Marina Abramovich and her lover Ulay intertwined their hair and sat motionless back to back for 17 hours. Let's find out what the Russian artists who crawled from the metro station to the monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky wanted to say.
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