The Art Discussion Group will discuss In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe (Penguin, $29.95). In Montmartre relates the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic talent ever assembled. It begins in October 1900, as a teenage Pablo Picasso first makes his way up the hillside of Paris’s famous district. Over the next decade, the young Spaniard is joined Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi, Gertrude Stein, and many more. Roe writes a remarkable group portrait of the men and women who profoundly changed the arts of painting, sculpture, dance, music, literature, and fashion. She describes the origins of movements like Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism, and reconstructs the stories behind immortal paintings by Picasso and Matisse and illuminates the excitement of the moment when these bold experiments in artistic representation and performance began to take shape.
Art Discussion Group
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 1:00pm