ocma: a little art history

ocma
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the museum is providing various art history lectures in their education center the last thurs of each month through june. i found out about it while looking up the helvetica screening (which was a disaster because of the damaged dvd that went berserk about 30 min into the movie). i decided to check out this evening's lecture on the european avant-garde art movements.

on a rare occasion, i arrived early, and was getting in some knitting, when i suddenly found myself surrounded by a group of 20+ college (barely) female students, engulfing me in bubble gum, overwhelmingly fruity shampoo and hot pink plastic. wow. to be young and pink.

art history prof karen kleinfelder's energetic presentation and intimate knowledge of the work made the concerns and influences of the european avant-garde relevant to today. marcel du champ is one of my heros, and i've heard of many of the other artists discussed from the period, but the lecture really brought the different movements together and put it in the context of the time and place.

bleary-eyed by the end by the account of guernica the city and guernica the painting by picasso, i contemplated the effect of war on art and vice versa. i am disappointed already that i will be missing the next lecture, which will be on american modernism.