Robert Delaunay, Political Drama, 1914. Oil and collage on cardboard.
Gift of the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc.
Daniel Marcus presents Origins of Contemporary Abstract Painting: Body, Face, Grid. Marcus will discuss how abstraction is rooted in the tropes of modernism by examining the work of Robert and Sonia Delaunay.
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Note: Space is limited
Daniel Marcus is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art at UC Berkeley. He has written on the motif of the face in the art of Jean Dubuffet, Cathy Wilkes, and Josh Smith.