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Sept.
29
Vladimir
Kandinsky
(1866-1944)
The
creator of Abstract
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Oct.
6
Joan
Miro
(1893-1983)
Spanish
Surrealist
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Oct.
13
Kasimir
Malevitch
(1878-1935)
Suprematism
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Oct.
20
Alexander
Calder
(1898-1966)
Abstract
sculpture
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Oct.
27
Constantin
Brancusi
(1876-1957)
Abstract
sculpture
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Nov. 3
The
Kids
Art
Exhibit
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As an
artist and a theorist he played a primordial role in the development
of abstract art.
He began
working on paintings that came to be considered the first totally
abstract works in modern art; they made no reference to objects
of the physical world and derived their inspiration and titles
from music.
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Whether
his work was purely abstract or whether it retained figurative
suggestions, Miro remained true to the basic Surrealistic principle
of releasing the creative forces of the unconscious mind from
control by logic and reason, rejecting traditional devices of
pictorial representation and composition, and fusing the spontaneous
expressions of a logical fantasy with the reality of experience
into pictorial creation. He was the greatest of all Surrealist
abstract artists.
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At the International Children Festival
(Palmer Auditorium)
Malevitch
worked in a reductivist style, culminating in the paintings and
drawings of simple squares.
His work,
because of its simplicity, was supposed to be accessible to the
'masses'. It was an attempt at proletarian art. The work led,
eventually, to the work of the Minimalists.
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Calder
was an artist of great originality who defined volume without
mass and incorporated movement and time in art.
His
inventions redefined certain basic principles of sculpture and
have established him as the most innovative sculptor of the
twentieth century.
Calder
envisioned putting paintings into motion. He developed constructions
of abstract shapes that can shift and change the composition
as the elements respond to air currents. These sculptures of
wire and sheet metal (or other materials) are called "mobiles."
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Romanian
sculptor Brancusi was a central figure of the modern movement
and a pioneer of abstraction.
His sculpture
is noted for its visual elegance and sensitive use of materials,
combining the directness of peasant carving with the sophistication
of the Parisian avant-garde.
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the children
will show their work through this session.
We'll
share art and drinks and laughts and cookies!
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