Show Notes
It’s weird that contemporary art isn’t Modern Art, right? Modernism can be confusing, but host Klaire Lockheart will do her best to guide you through it. She will even improve upon the typical art history narrative because she will include women artists, such as Hilma af Klint and Georgia O’Keeffe!
Artists and Artwork: Jacques-Louis David (Oath of the Horatii), Hilma af Klint (The Ten Largest, number 7 - Adulthood, Paintings for the Temple), Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keeffe (Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1), Willem de Kooning (Interchange), Frida Kahlo, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, and Diego Rivera
Additional Topics: Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness), 1913 Armory Show, Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint, Theosophy, William V. Dunning, Art for Art’s Sake, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Degenerate Art Exhibition, Leon Trotsky Impressionism, Orientalism, Postimpressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Suprematism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Postmodernism
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