The radically new ideas and inventions that dramatically changed life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed art as well. We’ll examine the impact of the industrial revolution, new forms of transportation, scientific discoveries, colonial expansion, secularization and new concepts of spirituality on the development of modern art. Works by Manet, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Malevich, Picasso, Mondrian, Carr, O’Keeffe and others reflect the revolutionary changes that ushered in modernity.
This course is presented at the JCC, Bloor and Spadina in Toronto, as part of The Speakers Annex series of lectures. Registration is available here and the course syllabus is available here.
