This program is also available with an afternoon collage workshop. Click here for information.
The year 1912 was rich with developments that spelled the end of the old and the coming of a new era in the visual arts. These breakthroughs seemed to happen simultaneously in Paris, London, Munich, Moscow, and New York, where avant-garde artists pursued new forms of visual expression with non-traditional approaches and techniques to reflect the social and cultural changes all around them. The most radical results of these experiments were the birth of abstract painting and the invention of collage.
In this morning seminar, art historian Aneta Georgievska-Shine discusses some of these seminal developments: from the collages of Braque and Picasso to the paintings by Kandinsky and Matisse inspired by music.
Georgievska-Shine is an independent art historian and adjunct lecturer in art history and theory at the University of Maryland.
