Date/Time
02/11/2021
18:00 - 20:00

Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music

20th century. The age of “extremes,” as acclaimed historian Eric Hobsbawm has called it. From the World Wars to the technological achievements and scientific discoveries, the previous century has laid the foundations of the way we experience the world today.

These lectures focus on the first half of the 20th century by exploring artistic movements, artists and theoretical collectives that have redefined art’s identity and the role it has played.

02/11/2021

• Defining the terms “avantgarde” and “modernism”. Analyzing the social and political framework
• Cubism l Deconstructing the representation of reality
• Fauvism l The dominance of color

09/11/2021

• German Expressionism l Art as the expression of the subject
• New Objectivity l Depicting the wounds from World War I
• Futurism l The glamour of technological evolution
• Dadaism l The anti-art

16/11/2021

• Surrealism l The Emergence of the unconscious
• Neoplasticism (De Stijl) l Creating a utopia
• Suprematism l Abstraction at its peak

23/11/2021

• Russian Avant-Garde l Art at the service of society
• Bauhaus l Educating emerging artists on how to meet the needs of mass production
• World War II and the emerging postwar generation in the USA

2, 9, 16, 23 November 2021

Tuesdays, 18:00-20:00

All 4 lectures: 30€, 15€

Single lecture: 10€, 5€

Live streaming tele-lecture

4 lectures: 30€

Single lecture: 10€

To be admitted to the auditorium the audience must provide upon entry either a vaccination certificate or a certificate of recovery from covid-19.