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SUMMARY:Understanding Modern Art - free talk - 7.12.20
DESCRIPTION:Join Arts Society and Tate lecturer Frank Woodgate for a j
 ourney through modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century, the a
 rtistic revolution which had started in the second half of the 19th C 
 and produced the works of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, 
 spread. Artists like Matisse and Picasso created some of their most im
 portant and influential works, and Duchamp produced art which still ha
 s an influence on artists today. In the second and third decades of th
 e century, the artistic response to political and social upheavals pro
 duced some of the great masterpieces of modern art, including many wor
 ks, such as those of Surrealists like Ernst and Magritte, which were d
 esigned deliberately to shock and mystify.  The Spanish Civil War was 
 a great influence on artists such as Picasso and Dalí, whilst the dee
 p pessimism of the years following the Second World War is reflected i
 n the work of artists like Bacon and Dubuffet. Pop Art brought a retur
 n to optimism in the sixties, while some of Warhol’s pictures reveal
  a darker side of modern life.   The last decades of the 20th century 
 and the first of the 21st have seen an intense questioning of the natu
 re and language of art, and serious consideration of ecological issues
  and the state of the planet amongst artists like Beuys and Kiefer. In
  the context of British art, we shall look at the Turner Prize which, 
 since 1984, has helped bring this country to the forefront of internat
 ional modern art.\n\nFor more information visit http://www.goldenlanee
 state.org/events/understanding-modern-art-free-talk-7-12-20
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