The art that came out of World War 1 was both ahead of its time and unhappily of its time—like Otto Dix’ harrowing Shock Troops Advance Under Gas, or Max Ernst’s prescient 1937 painting L’Ange du Foyer, in which a monster thrashes across the fields of Europe yet again. And to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the war—and in conjunction with their landmark exploration of avant-garde art—OCMA presents a lecture series exploring the ways that the Great War was linked to the creation of great art. Expect to examine early 20th century masters like Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky and Duchamp in a new context, and to see exactly what happens visually when the artists start depicting the shape of things to come.
Mon., Oct. 13, 1:30 p.m., 2014
