Modern Masterpieces: How Art Works Rise to Greatness with Elizabeth Perrotte

Sonia Delaunay, Prose of the Transiberian Railway 1913

Jackson Pollock, Summertime, 1949 (Tate, London)

These two radically abstract works, created in different times and places, broke with easel painting traditions through bold colors and gestural forms on scroll-like surfaces. Though their paths to recognition and ideas of artistic ‘genius’ differ, both challenged conventions.

This talk offers ways to engage with abstract art—whether you love it or struggle with it—revealing how and why these paintings achieved lasting acclaim.

In the series:
Nov. 11: Cezanne/Van Gogh
Nov. 25: Dali/Miro
Dec. 2: Delaunay/Pollock