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From Monet to Picasso: art at the turn of the century - course 3900 rubles. from Level One, training 6 online lectures for 2 hours, Date: December 4, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 06, 2023
A course of 6 lectures on how art changed at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Let's look at the revolution in painting brought about by impressionism, post-impressionism and the avant-garde. Let's get acquainted with the life and ideas of the main artists of that period: from Monet to Picasso.
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.
Lectures last 2 hours and take place on Saturdays. Connect online to ask questions to an expert, and if you don’t have time, the lecture recordings will remain in your personal account forever.
Degas, Renoir, Monet and other impressionists
During the lecture we will discuss:
- how the development of science and technology influenced the development of impressionism;
- why you don’t need to look for plots and photographic accuracy in impressionist paintings;
- how they broke all academic patterns;
- we will get acquainted with the main masters of this genre: Degas, Sisley, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Pissarro and other heroes;
- how the urban environment of the “new” Paris of the 70s of the 19th century influenced the poetics of impressionism;
- how the impressionists managed to become famous after a long disgrace and become legends during their lifetime.
Georges Seurat and Paul Cezanne
- how artists turned intuitive art into scientific art through the analysis of nature, light and optics, space and time;
- how Georges Seurat’s method works - divisionism;
- how to convey complex shades without mixing paints on the palette;
- Seurat’s main painting “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”;
- why Paul Cezanne is called a revolutionary of painting;
- why a painting and reality are different things, and an artist’s capabilities should not be limited to copying reality;
- why the artist depicted objects from different angles and how this relates to order;
- how Cezanne anticipated the emergence of the avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century.
Paul Gauguin
During the lecture we will discuss:
- why color in Gauguin’s paintings is not only beautiful, but also symbolic, and what is the meaning of these symbols;
- why Europe has ceased to inspire creative and educated people;
- what the artist found overseas;
- who can be seen in Gauguin’s paintings: Tahitian idols, exotic fruits, overseas Venuses, peacocks and other beauty.
Vincent van Gogh
During the lecture we will discuss:
- how Van Gogh became an important artist of the late 19th century;
- why a story about Van Gogh should start with his biography;
- what views Van Gogh had on his own and other people’s art;
- what the artist was guided by in his work and what he dreamed about;
- how Provençal paintings, still lifes with irises and sunflowers, portraits and self-portraits were born;
- why the artist used such bright colors, voluminous strokes and round lines;
- how this affected the subsequent art of Europe and beyond.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
During the lecture we will discuss:
- how the difficult fate of the artist developed in France in the 19th and 20th centuries;
- what were his views on art and his creative path;
- how Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec preserved the real life of Paris during the “Belle Epoque” in his paintings;
- why his heroes were regulars of Parisian cabarets, cancan dancers, brothel dwellers and their visitors;
- which stars of Parisian show business remained in history thanks to the works of Lautrec: dancers, singers and the first stand-up comedians;
- how he created posters and posters for the Moulin Rouge, and why such establishments were popular;
- how poster art developed, at the origins of which the artist stood.
Matisse, Rousseau, Picasso: the main thing about the avant-garde
During the lecture we will discuss:
- how the art of the early 20th century developed;
- how the discoveries of post-impressionism sound in the avant-garde;
- what are the discoveries of brave masters who are ahead of the rest;
- all directions of the avant-garde: fauvists, cubists, expressionists, primitivists and abstractionists;
- the main representatives of the avant-garde: Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele and many others.
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