Description

PMA Lecture Series

Thursday afternoons: 4 sessions, April 7, 14, 21, and 28, 1:30–2:30 p.m.

OR Saturdays: 2 sessions, April 16 and 30, 10:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

$100 ($80 members); ticket required

Offered in conjunction with the Marc Chagall exhibition, this course investigates the life and career of the Russian-born artist (1887–1985). The first two lectures highlight his early career, from his formidable presence among the Parisian avant-garde to his relationship with Russian modernist art at the time of the October Revolution in 1917. The course continues with an examination of Chagall in the context of the Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937, and a survey of his work after World War II.

Lecture 1: Prismatic Color: Chagall in Paris

Lecture 2: Chagall and Early Russian Modernism

Lecture 3: Purim in Munich: Chagall and the Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibition

Lecture 4: Forty Years of Peace: Chagall after World War II

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

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