ArtScapades presents the following lectures:
The Ashcan School: From Beautiful to Gritty – ArtScapades explores how a modern art movement developed in America led by artists of The Ashcan School and The Eight. This lecture explores George Bellows, Robert Henri, William Glackens, John Sloan, and Edward Hopper.
American Realism: From Beautiful to Gritty – ArtScapades looks at art that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. Artists took their inspiration from the lives of dock workers, street vendors, and immigrant families in the country’s modernizing cities. This lecture will explore the lives and works of John Sloan, George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
American Regionalism: From The Heartland to All of America – ArtScapades details how artists started a movement in the 1930s that focused on depicting the American Midwest and rural life, often as a response to the Great Depression. They emphasized realistic and figurative scenes of everyday American life. This lecture looks at Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood.
Abstract Expressionism: The Drippers – ArtScapades explores the artists who were the first to combine gesture with abstraction, demonstrating the action of painting by splattering, pouring, and pulling paint across the canvas. Works and lives of important artists of the period will be discussed including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline ,and Jackson Pollock.
Abstract Expressionism: The Colorists – ArtScapades explores the artists who filled their canvases with fields of color and abstract forms. Works and lives of important artists of the period will be discussed including Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.
Mark Rothko: His Life and Works – ArtScapades will give background on the Abstract Expressionist movement, specifically the artists known as the Colorists, and then delve into the life and work of Mark Rothko, best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color.
An Unlikely Connection: Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock –ArtScapades will look at the lives and works of two artists with very different styles, Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock. The bond between these two men not only deepened their individual lives but also altered the course of American art in the 20th century.
Couples in Abstract Expressionism: Willem & Elaine de Kooning…Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner – ArtScapades explores four artists…Willem and Elaine de Kooning, and Lee Krasner and her husband, Jackson Pollock. This lecture will look at each of these artist’s careers and the influence, and impact, they had on each other.
The Feminine Side of 20th Century Art: From O’Keeffe to Frankenthaler – ArtScapades looks at the history of women in art, and how that history laid a foundation for women artists in the twentieth century and beyond. Included will be a look at the lives and works of Georgia O’Keeffe, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler.
Precisionism: From Unexpected Angles to Dynamic Compositions – ArtScapades will look at Precisionism, the first real American modern art movement. Precisionism was driven by a desire to bring structure back to art and celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories. This lecture will look at the lives and works of Charles Demuth, Joseph Stella, Charles Sheeler and Georgia O’Keeffe.
The Great Art Migration: From the South to Harlem – ArtScapades delves into the lives and works of artists who depicted the African-American experience, beginning in the South and moving to Harlem during the early 1900s. This lecture introduces Aaron Douglas, Horace Pippin, Archibald John Motley Jr, and Laura Wheeler Waring.
The Harlem Art Explosion: From Innovation to Mainstream – ArtScapades looks at three artists who were working in Harlem at the height of The Harlem Renaissance. William H. Johnson, Romaire Bearden and Jacob Lawrence focused their art on African American culture and daily life in Harlem.
Pop!: From Comics to Consumerism – ArtScapades looks at the artists who broke down the boundaries traditionally separating fine art and everyday life, and laid the foundation for the art world’s aesthetic embrace of commodity culture. This lecture looks at the lives and works of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and David Hockney.