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Russian and Soviet Art: An introduction to the Avant-Garde

Thursday 15 8.00pmJanuary
2015

Talk

Quay Arts

Sea Street
Newport Harbour
Isle of Wight
PO30 5BD

01983 822490

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Russian and Soviet Art: An introduction to the Avant-Garde

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Vasily kandinsky   moscow i

Vectis Decorative & Fine Arts Society: Doors open at 7.15pm. Tea, coffee and bar are available before the lectures which begin at 8.00pm. We ask you to be seated by 7.55pm. They finish at approximately 9.15-9-30pm Guests are welcome at a cost of £7 and £2 for students.


Theodra Clarke presents

The aim of the lecture is to introduce us to a variety of artists working at a dynamic time in Russian history.

Theodora Clarke offers a short introduction to an intriguing period of artistic and political evolution in Russia.

She will present the major movements and artists of early 20th century Russian art and place the various “isms” of the avant-garde within a wider cultural context. Major artists to be considered include Kandinsky, Malevich, Tatlin, Lissitzky, Goncharova, Chagall, Rodchenko and Popova.

Key topics include the evolution of various avant-gardes in Russia.

Art movements she will discuss include the World of Art, the Blue Rose Group and Knave of Diamonds. We will then consider the rise of geometric non-objective painting, the creation of a new Soviet culture after the 1917 Russian Revolution and how Socialist Realist painting came about in the USSR after 1932.

Major works in the State Russian Museum collections will be examined including paintings in the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery in St Petersburg and Moscow.

We will look at artistic creativity during a time of revolutionary change and the cultural connections between Russia and Europe.

Lecturer profile
Theodora Clarke is an art historian, critic and lecturer specialising in Russian art and European modernism. She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Newcastle University, and lectures widely on twentieth century avant-garde painting and sculpture to audiences across the UK, including at the V&A, Tate Britain, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the University of Bristol and Cambridge University.

She has taught adult art history courses at the Royal West of England Academy, and previously worked both at Christie's and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Harvard University awarded her a dissertation grant in 2011, and she is currently studying for her PhD at the University of Bristol. Also she edits the online magazine 'Russian Art and Culture' and founded 'Russian Art Week' in London.

Image: © Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944). Moscow I



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