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By Béa Aaronson After a brief introduction on the existential dimension of Expressionism, I shall unravel for you the heart-wrenching story of Chaim Soutine, “The Cursed Painter” of 20th century Art History. It is a story bathed in blood red! Lecture “Chaim Soutine: Le Peintre Maudit” Expressionism and the fever of distortion Wed, Apr 3, [...]
By Charlotte Bell Join Charlotte Bell author of Tears from the Crown of Thorns for her annual lecture on Semana Santa. Holy Week is a time filled with happenings. There are nine major events and many more minor ones. With so many options it is difficult to know where to start. Most of the events [...]
By Bea Aaronson Of all the major women in Picasso’s life, Jacqueline Roque is the last one. Her story still remains obscure. She was his last love, more dismissed and hated than any of Picasso’s other conquests. Lecture “Jacqueline Roque: Picasso’s Last Love and Final Victim” Wed, Mar 27, 4:30pm La Ostra Roja A Casa [...]
By Béa Aaronson The last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, the proud Spaniard, the revolutionary painter, was born in Fuendetodos in 1746 during the frenzy of the Enlightenment, and lived during the revolutionary fervor of the Romantic Era. He died in exile in Bordeaux in [...]
By Stephen Eaker Ernest Ludwig Kirchner was born in 1880 in Chemitz, Germany, the son of a successful and renowned chemist. His father showed no resentment or resistance to his son’s desire to study art. Kirchner left for Dresden in the year 1901. He met other young revolutionary-minded painters and became the co-founder of the [...]
By Béa Aaronson Muse, model, lover, artist…she was all that and more! “She seized what she Wanted from art and life, And tore it free with both Hands making it Irrevocably her own.” –Germaine Greer This woman painted like a man, strong, bold, nothing shy of a Degas or a Toulouse Lautrec! But alas, [...]
By Béa Aaronson “The more frightening the world becomes… the more art becomes abstract. In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration” Wassily Kandinsky From Moscow, where he was born in 1866, to Paris, where he died in 1944, via Venice, Rome, Munich, [...]
By Béa Aaronson What is Japonisme? It is a French term that was first used by Jules Claretie in his book L’Art Francais en 1872. It refers to the influence of Japanese art on Western art. Influence? I would rather say “frenzy” or “upheaval.” The artists of the Far East had a completely new aesthetic [...]
By Stephen Eaker Ernest Ludwig Kirchner was born in 1880 in Chemitz, Germany, the son of a successful and renowned chemist. His father showed no resentment or resistance to his son’s desire to study art. Kirchner left for Dresden in the year 1901. He met other young revolutionary-minded painters and became the co-founder of the [...]
By Gabriel Sencial Dada was, officially, not a movement, its artists not artists and its art not art. That sounds easy enough, doesn’t it? Of course, there is a bit more to the story of Dadaism than this simplistic explanation. Lecture Series, Hitory of Art, Art Movements: The Dada Movement, Lecture 4. Wed, Nov 16, [...]
