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Venue: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion

Address: 500 E. Peabody Drive , Champaign

Venue Details: Located in the Krannert Art Museum auditorium.

Cost: Free

Entry Age: 18

posted 1:59 pm Oct 27
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"West to East: Reconsidering the Exchange of Postwar Abstraction between San Francisco and New York," a talk by Marcelle Polednik, chief curator, Monterey Museum of Art

This talk will focus on the highly dynamic decade of 1946-1956 by examining its four-part evolution. This critical period encompasses the first definition of the abstract expressionist movement (1946); the emerging, formative period (1947-49); the codification into an identifiable set of artistic concerns and practices (1950); maturation and, ultimately, subtle transformation into a figurative aesthetic (1951-56). The discussion will posit several key artists as the disseminators and mediators between the two coasts.