In the late 1800s and early 1900s, artists Auguste Rodin and Pablo Picasso broke with centuries of tradition that insisted on the integrity of the human body in sculpture and the Renaissance conception of painting as a window onto a world.
This talk, led by Dr. Michael J. Anderson, President and CEO of OKCMOA, will consider the ways in which their resistance to single, fixed perspectives and unified forms embodied and challenged the scientific, technological, social, political, and artistic developments of their eras, paying special attention to how newly emergent concepts and experiences of time shaped their revolutionary art.
Prior to the lecture, Friend and Sustainer-level members are invited to join us for a private reception.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Anderson, PhD, has been President & CEO of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art since January 2020. Between 2014 and 2020, he served in various roles at the Museum, including Curator of Film and American Art, Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Interim CEO. Michael received his PhD in History of Art and Film Studies from Yale University in 2013, where he wrote about the early films of Hollywood director Howard Hawks. Michael has published a variety of essays on film topics including Hawks’s films and other classical Hollywood topics, and the cinemas of France, Iran, and Japan, among others. Michael co-curated Kiarostami: Beyond the Frame and served as the Museum’s coordinating curator for Matisse in His Time, Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness, and many more. He has previously lectured at OKCMOA on the art of Henri Matisse and Edgar Degas, holds additional degrees from New York University and Hillsdale College, and is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors.
