Christine Poggi: Encounters with Picasso: The Shock of Cubism and the Futurist Response
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Free with tickets to Picasso: Fifty Years Later Advanced tickets required for non-members, Members are free
In partnership with Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, we are pleased to present Christine Poggi (Ph.D.), Director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, to discuss Picasso and her book, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage.
The artist Gino Severini, who resided in Paris, encouraged his fellow Italian Futurists to spend a few weeks in the French capital where they would have the opportunity to visit the studios of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. What the Italians saw proved to be both shocking and a spur to further innovation, leading to subsequent visits to Paris that allowed the Futurists to develop their own distinctive goals and techniques. This talk explores the responses of artists Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, and Luigi Russolo to Cubism, and to the art of Picasso in particular. It also addresses the early polymaterial experiments of Giacomo Balla, who, like Picasso, began to employ a diversity of materials in both pictorial and sculptural works in the years leading to First World War.
Christine Poggi is Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her research has focused on the early 20th-century European avant-gardes, the invention of collage and constructed sculpture, the rise of abstraction, and the relationship of art to emerging forms of labor and technology. Her books include *In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage *(Yale, 1992) and Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism (Princeton, 2008, awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the MLA).
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