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LOCAL>> Online Class: Art History with Kerrin Meis - Matisse and Picasso: Masters of Modernism

Presented by Book Passage at Streaming Arts

May 08 - 15 2021
LOCAL>> Online Class: Art History with Kerrin Meis - Matisse and Picasso: Masters of Modernism

Online art history class exploring the history and legacy of Matisse and Picasso

Two Saturdays: May 8 and 15

Hosted via Zoom • Live • 1:00-3:00pm PT • $85

Often seen as opposing influences in a new direction for art in the Western World, these two artists, both rebels, used highly disparate but equally important means to forge a new way of seeing and representing their worlds.

Matisse, a serene Frenchman, happily married, and Picasso, a flamboyant Spaniard and womanizer, need to be studied side by side and with attention to their childhoods, their early works, their early collectors, their dealers, their critics, and their legacy.

We will study their contemporaries as well and note how their experiments with Fauvism (Matisse) and Cubism (Picasso) spawned developments in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and the USA.

Of special interest are their late works involving not painting but in the case of Picasso, creating pottery vessels and in the case of Matisse, cutting up pieces of colored paper!

We will meet collectors like the Steins of San Francisco, Shchukin in Russia, dealers Ambrose Vollard and Daniel Kahnweiler, and some obstreperous Americans.

Kerrin Meis taught art history at SFSU for ten years and has led study tours in Europe. Her Book Passage classes have been favorites for years.

ADMISSION INFO

$85

Additional time info:

Saturdays, 1:00 - 3:00 pm PT

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