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Events

Abstraction-Contemporary Realism

Alexandra Obukhova
May 15, Saturday
Lecture17:00

Using examples of Mark Rothko’s work, curator and art historian Alexandra Obukhova will examine the idea of ‘abstract narrative painting’ which was being created in the US in 1940s-1950s. Interestingly, this type of Non-objective painting was first practiced in the US during World War II, seemingly in opposition to the academic figurative painting propagated by the totalitarian regimes of Europe. However, by revealing the way the artist describes his paintings as ‘theatre pieces’ and the forms he created as his ‘actors’ there is perhaps more to be understood from the work of Rothko and his contemporaries - Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newmann.

Lecturer:

Alexandra Obukhova, art historian, curator.


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