Summer Speaker Series with Wendy Slatkin
Date and Time
Thursday Aug 1, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
July 11, 18, 25 and August 1, 6-7:30 pm
Location
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, 200 W. First St., Claremont, CA
Fees/Admission
Free Admission
Website
Contact Information
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art
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Description
The public is invited to a series of free lectures, “Revolutions & Revelations: Avant-Garde Art of the 20th Century”, every Thursday, 6-7:30 pm at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art on July 11, 18, 25 and August 1.
The 20th Century was an era of constant renewal in the arts, with artists seeking new modes of self-expression and cultural production. These visionaries gave us radical new ways of seeing the world. Art historian Wendy Slatkin, Ph. D will explore the most exciting Western works of art of the 1900s and provide the historical contexts that defined these important works of art.
July 11 - 1900-1909: Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Gauguin, Cézanne, Picasso
July 18 - 1910-1919: Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Dada, Kirchner, Malevich, Duchamp
July 25 - 1920-1929: Bauhaus, Surrealism, American Modernism, Miro, Magritte, O’Keefe
August 1- 1930-1939: Mexican Mural Movement, Exiles & Émigrés, Calder, Mondrian, Sheets
The Museum is located in the historic Claremont Depot at 200 W. First Street next to the Metrolink Station. For more information about the museum visit clmoa.org.
Direct link to the webpage is https://clmoa.org/2024-summer-speaker-series
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