Art Talks by Erich Keel:
THE RISE OF CUBISM
INFLUENCES, PRECURSORS, AND EARLY EXPERIMENTS IN CUBISM (1904-1909)
Thursday, March 11
6:30 - 8 pm
THE BREAKTHROUGH: HIGH ANALYTIC CUBISM (1910-1912)
Thursday, March 25
6:30 - 8 pm
Tickets: $12 / Students: $7 /
Members: Free
For reservations, call 202-338-3552.
Art historian Robert Rosenblum called Cubism “one of the major transformations in Western art.” The movement paralleled discoveries in philosophy and psychoanalysis, and it gave painting the same problematic status as the concrete poetry of Apollinaire and the atonal music of Schoenberg.
In two lectures the speaker will explore how Cubism, influenced by Cézanne and tribal art, developed from the tentative beginnings of landscapes painted in Provence to the intricate and mysterious portraits and still lifes of the High Analytic style.
Inside the Artist's Studio: PHYLLIS PLATTNER
Saturday, April 10
12 noon
Tickets: $12 / Students: $7 /
Members: Free
For reservations, call 202-338-3552.
Phyllis Plattner, a Washington, DC based artist, has spent extended periods of time living in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico and in Florence, Italy, two cultures which have had a profound impact on her art. In the recent series of oil and gold leaf paintings called Legends, she combines images of the masked Zapatista dolls made by Mayan women after the Chiapas indigenous uprising of January 1st, 1994 with the formal narrative settings of Italian renaissance altarpiece painting. The result is to bring imagery of religion and warfare into contrast. Her new series, Chronicles of War juxtaposes contemporary news photos of war with art historic warfare images from many diverse times and places.
Please note: This event will take place at the artist’s Bethesda, MD studio. Directions will be sent upon registration.
Image: Phyllis Plattner, Legends #44/In the Name of God (after Mantegna). Oil and gold leaf on panel, 56"x45"
|
