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Modern Art and Artistic Vanguard (English version coming soon)
Introduction to modern art and avant-garde painting from their two key theoretical concepts, respectively, autonomy and self-referentiality.
We talked about artists like Gustave Courbet, the Impressionists, the Fauves, and the Cubists.
By: Marcos Yañez
02
Raphael.
The Athens' School.
Renaissance Manifesto.
(English version coming soon)
Theoretical assessment from the point of view of the history of the Renaissance painting culture and of "The School of Athens" as the work that consummated the ideals and advances of the art of the epoch.
By: Marcos Yañez
03
Impressionist Painting 1.
Baudelaire and the beginnings of the movement. (English version coming soon)
Impressionism. Series 1/4.
We analyze the concept of modernity according to Baudelaire and its application to painting. We locate the key dates of the impressionist movement and the society that gave birth to it.
By: Marcos Yañez
04
Impressionist Painting 2.
The exhibition of 1874.
(English version coming soon)
Impressionism Series 2/4.
We look at where the name "Impressionism" comes from, who created it, and how it's received in Paris.
And we illustrate it with a work by Claude Monet.
By: Marcos Yañez
05
Impressionist Painting 3.
Monet and Renoir.
(English version coming soon)
Impressionism Series 3/4.
We analyze the fundamental characteristics of the pictorial impressionism movement using as examples the works "Boulevard des Capucines" (1873) by Claude Monet and "Baile del Moulin de la Galette" (1876) by P. A. Renoir.
By: Marcos Yañez
06
Impressionist Painting 4.
The end of impressionism. (English version coming soon)
Impressionism Series 4/4.
We look at where the name "Impressionism" comes from, who created it, and how it's received in Paris.
And we illustrate it with a work by Claude Monet.
By: Marcos Yañez
07
The Avant-gard Painting.
(English version coming soon)
Introduction to the concept of pictorial avant-garde from its development in the different movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Abstraction, Dada, Constructivism, Neoplasticism and Surrealism.
By: Marcos Yañez
08
Avant-garde painting 1.
Fauvism. (English version coming soon)
Introduction to the first avant-garde painting movement of the 20th century, Fauvism.
Commentary on the 1905 exhibition with the criticism of Louis Vauxcelles and analysis of the formal characteristics of the movement with the example of the works and texts of Henri Matisse.
By: Marcos Yañez
09
Avant-garde painting 2.
Cubism.
Braque and The Ladies of Avinyó. (English version coming soon)
Analysis of the beginnings of Cubism and its proposals from a theoretical and historical point of view.
Commentary on works by Paul Cézanne, George Braque and Pablo Picasso.
By: Marcos Yañez
10
Avant-garde painting 3.
Cubism.
Development and historical phases. (English version coming soon)
Technical and theoretical analysis of the Cubist painting development in its three phases (Cézannian Cubism, Analytical or Hermetic Cubism and Synthetic Cubism).
Commentary on works by Picasso and George Braque as well as the contributions of other artists such as Metzinger, Gleizes, Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Delaunay or María Blanchard
By: Marcos Yañez
11
Avant-garde painting 4.
The Futurism. (English version coming soon)
We analyze the characteristics, development and legacy of Futurism for Art, cinema and society today.
We start from the reading of the first manifesto of 1909 to talk about its development in music, painting and sculpture.
The main artists we talked about are F.T. Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo, Carlo Carrà and Giacomo Balla.
By: Marcos Yañez
12
Avant-garde painting 5.
Kandinsky and abstract painting. (English version coming soon)
We analyze the trajectory of Vasili Kandinsky and reflect on what pictorial abstraction is based on his works and fragments of his main written work: "Of the spiritual in art"
By: Marcos Yañez
13
Avant-garde painting 6.
Dada, the Dadaists and the ready made. (English version coming soon)
We analyze the consequences of the 1st World War in the intellectual, cultural and artistic world and how this climate leads to the emergence, in cities as far away as Zurich and New York, of the Dada movement. We read manifestos and analyze attitudes and interventions by artists such as Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia or Marcel Duchamp.
By: Marcos Yañez
14
Avant-garde painting 7.
Dadaist.
The ox on the roof and the cacodilated eye.
(English version coming soon)
We approach the atmosphere of Parisian Dadaism in the 1920s by telling the story of how the ballet "Le boeuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof)" by Darius Milhaud arose and its relationship with the painting "The Cacodilated Eye" by Francis Picabia. , which more than his is a collective creation of the whole group.
By: Marcos Yañez
15
Avant-garde painting 8.
Malevich and Suprematism. (English version coming soon)
We analyze the pictorial trajectory of Kazimir Malevich until his arrival at Suprematism, as well as his main works, his writings and the theoretical contents of this avant-garde movement. All in the context of pre-revolutionary Russia.