Anna Misyun / Paris School: painting on a gold background

In any tourist avenue, Paris will now be presented as the capital of fashion and art! But it wasn’t always so ... Once, it would seem, all of a sudden, a fundamentally new art was purposefully born in this city. It is here, in numerous cafes, “squats” for artists left after world expos, in the squares and parks of Montmartre and Montparnasse in the early twentieth century. strange young people from around the world began to appear, whose life purpose was Life in art and the creation of this newest Art.              The world-famous names of geniuses - Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani ... - would never have sounded so convincing if not for that extremely bright background, against which their talent shone. This truly Golden background, later called by the researchers "Paris School", deserves a special discussion. Georges Braque, one of the “co-authors” of Cubism, Joan Miro, Chaim Soutine, Giorgio de Chirico and almost all surrealists, Maurice de Vlaminck and the Fauvists, Roger Bissières and non-figurative art, avant-garde artists of pre-revolutionary Odessa led by Amshey Nurenberg and Vladimir Izdebsky, Pierre Bonnard is the leader of the Nabis ... Beyond this atmosphere of creativity, wine, controversy and struggle, sometimes not only artistic, sacrificial readiness to give life to art, and without this amazing bohemian skill, Living Paris would not have become the Mecca of modern art.Every summer “we are going to Paris again”, but this is not always possible in real life. So, to Paris ... About the salons and painting studios, the passions of artists and the prices of auctions for their works, about friendship and betrayal, about detective discoveries and inappreciation in the world of painting - in a new lecture by Anna Misun, associate professor of the Department of Cultural Studies, Art History and Philosophy of Culture of ONPU from the cycle "Of all the arts, the most important thing for us ...: Painting in the space of culture."              Knowledge - 70 hryvnias (delicious coffee is already included in the price).       If you register, we will definitely save a place for you: https://goo.gl/forms/VkuvJ7TtpjMGTH3Q2