| In March 2010 in St. Petersburg the international conference “Russia and the Global Cézanne Effect, 1900-1950″ brought together major Cézanne scholars from across the globe. The conference theme is highly relevant today, reflecting a recent interest in the global reaches of modernist practice and art history’s continued fascination with Paul Cézanne’s life and art. | ||
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The Speakers
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Denis Coutagne: The movements influenced by Cézanne would be called in the future: Cubism, Fauvism, and Abstraction. All artists of the first half of the 20th century would declare him as the father («our father of all»). Nowadays there are many influential interpretations of how Cézanne’s creative activity found continuation in the works of Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, and influenced the development of Modernism in Europe and the USA. I have no doubt that Cézanne’s creative activity is the one of Truth, whose stamp can be seen throughout the 20th century… | |
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The Venue
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The conference was held in Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The library’s status, spaciousness and state-of-the-art resources facilitated a true 21st-century event. The Presidential Library is found as the electronic library. Located in the historical building of Synod the new library represents the new era in development of library science in Russia… | ||
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