Trivium Art History
Sigrid Hjertén —A genius colorist fights schizophrenia1885 — 1948
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1801
Zinaida Serebriakova
Antoine Pevsner
Sigrid Hjertén
Luigi Russolo
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
2000
Widowed mother of four leaves Russia for Paris
"Art must be inspiration controlled by mathematics"
Machines that scream — inventing Futurist music
affirming the metaphysical horror of existence
The artists of Early Modernism
Umberto Boccioni — Why can’t I stop painting my mother?
1882-1916Piet Mondrian — There is no God — only Truth
1872-1944Henri Matisse — 100% artist
1869-1954Marc Chagall — A painter of inner and outer worlds
1887-1985Giorgio Morandi — What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?
1890-1964Hilma af Klint — The world isn't ready
1862-1944Wassily Kandinsky — How to paint music
1866-1944Anne Goldthwaite — Artist turns modernism into equal rights activism
1869-1944Amrita Sher-Gil — A woman brings Indian tradition into modernism
1913-1941Sigrid Hjertén — A genius colorist fights schizophrenia
1885-1948Theo van Doesburg — Ending a friendship over diagonal lines
1883-1931Pablo Picasso — The man who ate the world's art
1881-1973Alice Neel — The unblinking anxiety of modern life
1900-1984John Singer Sargent — Portrait Painter Extraordinaire
Marsden Hartley — Spirituality comes first, cult status second
1877-1943Ibrahim Kodra — Sponsored by a queen
1918-2006