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Paris (1918-1938): Innovation and Determination

Presented by Victoria Martino

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

6:30 PM


Although he returned to Paris at the end of the war, Mondrian continued his close collaboration with the artists of De Stijl. The 1920 publication of his booklet, Le Néo-plasticisme, served to disseminate his new theories throughout Europe. In the course of the years that followed, Mondrian’s artistic innovation led to the development of a unique pictorial language. Ever pursuing pure abstraction, he became affiliated with the international art associations, Cercle et Carré and Abstraction-Création.

About Victoria Martino:

Victoria Martino is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and the University of California. A specialist in European modernism, she has written and lectured extensively on artists of the early 20th century, including (among others) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and the German avant-garde periodical PAN. She has curated numerous museum exhibitions in Europe and the United States and has published over 60 catalogue essays and scholarly articles. Ms. Martino has been a guest professor at universities in Australia and the United States, and she has participated in international scholarly symposia. A professional art critic, she has published exhibition reviews in THE Magazine, New York Arts, The Berkshire Review for the Arts, The Huffington Post, and many European journals.

The lectures will be livestreamed via Zoom webinar. Ticket holders will receive a link before the lecture. Following each lecture, ticket holders will have 48-hour access to a recording. An email will be sent at 10 AM the day after the lecture with the link to the recording.

Earlier Event: February 28
Peter Sprague Trio
Later Event: March 2
Children's Storytime