THE RISE OF CUBISM: PICASSO AND BRAQUE, 1907 - 1914
Modern art has always presented the onlooker with thoughts about how did the artist conceive the images they are looking at. To address the contributions made by two well known artists – Picasso and Braque - the Center for Lifelong Learning will present Alexandra Michaels on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 10 a.m. in the Potomac Room in Clubhouse 1.
Residents interested in attending the program should register to attend with the Lifestyle Department in Clubhouse 2 or by calling 301-598-1320. Registration begins on the Tuesday following the Friday publication in the Leisure World newspaper. For more details about the class, contact the Center’s website at https://www.cllmd.com.
Alexandra Michaels has been artist-in-residence at the Stone Tower at Glen Echo Park and exhibited at Artomatic, Artery 717, Magical Montgomery, JCC in Rockville and many other venues. Her mixed media watercolor in was featured in the exhibit “Earth and Fire” at the Del Ray Artisans Gallery in Alexandria, VA. Ms. Michaels also had a solo show at Artists and Makers Studios in Rockville, featuring her “Dress as Icon” Series. She exhibits regularly at the Yellow Barn Art Studio at Glen Echo Park and in Leisure World.
For 27 years, Ms. Michaels taught art — including advanced placement studio art— in Montgomery County Public Schools. Ms. Michaels is now retired and pursues drawing and painting in her home studio. She completed 30 Graduate credits in the Directed Studies Program at the UMD art program. She has experience in all types of media including drawing, watercolor, acrylic painting, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics and black & white photography. The Maryland Art Education Association honored her with the Educator of the Year award both in 1994 and in 2013.
Ms. Michaels is the author/illustrator of The Kids’ Multicultural Art Book, 1993, Williamson Publishing Co., Vermont also published in Czechoslovakia in 1995. The Kids’ Multicultural Art Book has been currently re-released in full color by Worthy Publishing. She also is the Illustrator for Jazzy Jewelry, by Diane Baker, 2002, Williamson Publishing Co She has been an instructor at the Yellow Barn Art Studio and Gallery, Glen Echo Park. She currently is an art instructor for the Rossmoor Art Guild at Leisure World and works both at a studio space at Clubhouse I and in her home studio.
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism (Wikipedia). Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France (Wikipedia). One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.