Maestro Francesco Santoro, art history scholar and world-renowned visual artist, will present the first of four free public lectures and discussions (in Italian with simultaneous English translation) on the masters of modern art: Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and De Chirico.
Santoro will focus on the life and work of these artists who broke with traditions in response to changes in the world around them. Santoro in his lectures highlights, through space-time connections and documentary evidence, that what they tried after the breakup with traditional painting, was to make art survive through the research of a new language. They were infected by “the willingness to remake the world.” They wanted to analyze systematically the phenomenon of “perception,” creating a Science of Art. They wanted to show that what matters in the artwork is knowledge; they wanted to communicate that the project of an artwork is already a work of art.
Their willingness to engage in cultural debate and look at the world in a new and different way had an extraordinary impact on the relationship between life and art, so far as to influence the art movements of the 1960’s and 70’s.
“At the beginning of the 20th Century the question arose, as it has again today: Is art dead? Today we ask has the excess of materialism killed any energy that might fuel a new art movement? Where do we start today to form a new language of art? As the modern artists did in their times, do we look to knowledge to fuel a new beginning? Will debate, questioning and learning be the answer?”
Santoro hopes to share his passion for art and to inspire an open and honest cultural discussion on these themes.
Free
Mulberry Street Library
10 Jersey St.
New York, NY, 10012
212-966-3424
When: Sat., Jul. 16, 2016 at 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Maestro Francesco Santoro, art history scholar and world-renowned visual artist, will present the first of four free public lectures and discussions (in Italian with simultaneous English translation) on the masters of modern art: Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and De Chirico.
Santoro will focus on the life and work of these artists who broke with traditions in response to changes in the world around them. Santoro in his lectures highlights, through space-time connections and documentary evidence, that what they tried after the breakup with traditional painting, was to make art survive through the research of a new language. They were infected by “the willingness to remake the world.” They wanted to analyze systematically the phenomenon of “perception,” creating a Science of Art. They wanted to show that what matters in the artwork is knowledge; they wanted to communicate that the project of an artwork is already a work of art.
Their willingness to engage in cultural debate and look at the world in a new and different way had an extraordinary impact on the relationship between life and art, so far as to influence the art movements of the 1960’s and 70’s.
“At the beginning of the 20th Century the question arose, as it has again today: Is art dead? Today we ask has the excess of materialism killed any energy that might fuel a new art movement? Where do we start today to form a new language of art? As the modern artists did in their times, do we look to knowledge to fuel a new beginning? Will debate, questioning and learning be the answer?”
Santoro hopes to share his passion for art and to inspire an open and honest cultural discussion on these themes.
Free
Mulberry Street Library
10 Jersey St.
New York, NY, 10012
212-966-3424
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