Picasso and Dalí

Lecture Series March 2011

Modern Spanish Masters : Picasso and Dalí

with Dr Frank I Heckes

Travels Through Time Cultural Studies and Tours Contact Details Melbourne : (03) 9017 0897 email : [email protected] web: www.travelsthroughtime.com Modern Spanish Masters : Picasso and Dalí This lecture series will explore the development and significance of paintings, drawings and prints by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, two of the most important Spanish artists of the twentieth century. The focus will be on Picasso’s life and art from 1900 to 1945 and Dalí’s life and art from 1919 to 1952. Detailed analysis will be given to major works from Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods, his Cubist innovations, and masterpieces, such as Guernica and his Weeping Women compositions of the period 1935–1945 during his intense relationship with the Surrealist artist Dora Maar. Dalí’s love of the Catalan landscape will receive special emphasis, and there will be critical examination of key works that demonstrate the evolution of his art and his many stylistic changes from Impressionism and Cubism to Surrealism and Nuclear Mysticism. Lecture Series Details This lecture series will consist of 3 x 1.5 hour illustrated lectures. Each session will allow time for coffee and discussion. Dates Time Wednesdays : March 16, 23, 30 10:30 – 12:00 noon Cost Venue The cost for the 3 sessions is $130 (incl GST) Alloarmo – 5 Grattan Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Session Overview Session 1 – March 16 Picasso’s Art : From the Blue Period through Cubism Picasso’s life and artistic development from 1900 to 1921 will be studied during this session. Detailed analysis will be given to major works of Picasso’s Blue Period, such as Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas)(1901) and La Vie (1903); of the Rose Period, such as The Family of Saltimbanques (1905); his radically innovative Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907); and such Cubist works asThe Reservoir, Horta de Ebro (1909), “Ma Jolie” (Woman with a Zither or Guitar) (1911–12), Still Life with Chair Caning (1912), Harlequin (1915), and Three Musicians(1921). Session 2 – March 23 Picasso and Dora Maar : Love and War 1935–1945 This session will focus on Picasso’s intense relationship with the photographer and Surrealist artist Dora Maar during the turbulent period of world history between 1935 and 1945. There will be detailed study of Maar’s photomontage 29 rue d’Astorg, Picasso’s drawings, prints and paintings in which he mythologised their relationship by depicting Harpys and Minotaurs, Picasso’s masterpieceGuernica and Dora’s photographic documentation of its creation, his Weeping Women compositions, for which Dora served as catalyst and model, and his still life paintings created after the bleak years of World War II in 1945, the year that he and Dora separated because of his love affair with Françoise Gilot. Session 3 – March 30 Dalí’s Art : From Catalan Landscapes to Surrealist Masterpieces This session will analyse Salvador Dalí’s life and his artistic development from his early landscapes of Cadaqués to such Surrealist creations as heT Great Masturbator (1929), The Persistence of Memory (1931), Memory of the Child Woman (1932), Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936), The Enigma of Hitler(1938) and The Angel of Portlligat (1952).