Abstract Art

Abstract Art

How did artists at the beginning of the 20th century move from depicting the world around them to abstract, or “non-objective,” art?

During the lecture, we will discuss:

– why Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso began incorporating three-dimensional objects and text into their paintings, and how these experiments changed the way we understand a work of art;

– what assemblage is and how it emerged;

– how the aestheticisation of aggression in the Futurist Manifesto set the tone for 20th-century culture;

– why Futurists called for the destruction of museums and revered crowds, speed, technology and rebellion;

– how Futurism challenged France’s monopoly on the development of modern art;

– and how abstract art gradually emerged, no longer seeking to depict objects from the surrounding world.

Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Umberto Boccioni, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. A story of how artists stopped depicting the world and began creating realities of their own.

The lecture will be delivered by Vadim Nasledov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, lecturer and educator.