Fauvism, Cubism, and Simultanism

4 Novembro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

The Fauvist movement: the precursors of Cubism. Importance of color as means of expression of the artist's subjectivity (Matisse and La Plage rouge). Cubism and the representation of the female figure (Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Braque's Grand nu). The influence of Paul Cézanne and the geometric reduction of reality (landscape and still life). Simultanism / Orphism and the Delaunays.

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Apollinaire and Cubism

30 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Reading and commentary of Apollinaire's text on Cubist painters: the different forms of Cubism, avant-garde anti-realism and the idea of conceptual art, the centrality of the artist's vision, the relationship with the past (the imagery of fire as the exemplification of the negative / destructive element of the avant-garde mindset).

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Marinetti and the Futurist Avant-Garde

28 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Reading and commentary of Futurist manifestos, i.e., "The Futurist Manifesto", "Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto", "The Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture". Analysis of visual materials, namely Boccioni, La città che sale; Carrà, Il cavaliere rosso; Severini, Cannoni in azione; sculptures by Medardo Rosso and Umberto Boccioni.

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M. Călinescu / Futurism

23 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

End of discussion of Calinescu's text. Introduction to futurism: history of the movement, its progressive opening to the visual arts, the futurist serata, Russolo's futurist music, presentation of the founding Manifesto of Futurism by Marinetti and its core elements. 

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M. Călinescu and the avant-gardes

21 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Introduction and discussion of Calinescu's text on the idea of the avant-garde: modernity and the avant-garde; the history of a military metaphor: its use in political discourse (utopian socialism) and then its critical reassessment in the field of aesthetics (e.g., Baudelaire's mistrust); the primacy of the aesthetic connotation of the avant-garde in early 20th-century discourse and the subordination of the political impact of the trope. The main features of avant-garde culture: revolutionary ethos, negative element, temporality and vision of history, leadership, vision of tradition as oppressive, anti-conformism, its internal contradictions and the crisis of the avant-garde (1960s, postmodernism).

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