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OLLI at Duke Fall 2019 Kris Door, lecturer kristinedoor.com North Carolina Museum of Art Lectures: Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30 Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexican Modernism October 2 What is Mexican Modernism?

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OLLI at Duke Fall 2019Kris Door, lecturer kristinedoor.comNorth Carolina Museum of Art Lectures: Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexican ModernismOctober 2 What is Mexican Modernism?

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OLLI at Duke Fall 2019Kris Door, lecturer kristinedoor.comFrida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexican Modernism

North Carolina Museum of Art Lectures: Wednesdays 11:00-12:30North Carolina Museum of Art Gallery Sessions:

section 1 Lecture only, Wed, 11:00-12:30 (October 2, 16, 30, Nov 6)Gallery section 2 Wed. 10:30-11:45 (October 2, 9, 16, 30, Nov 6, 13)Gallery section 3 Wed. 12:00-1:15 (October 2, 9, 16, 30, Nov 6, 13)Gallery section 4 Thur. 10:30-11:45 (October 2, 10,16, 30, Nov 6,14)Gallery section 5 Thur. 12:00-1:15 (October 2, 10,16, 30, Nov 6,14)

SCHEDULEOct 2 (lecture) What is Mexican Modernism?Oct 9 (gallery section 2, 10:30-11:45; gallery section 3, 12:00-1:15) Exploring Modernism

Oct 10 (gallery section 4, 10:30-11:45; gallery section 5, 12:00-1:15) Exploring Modernism

Oct 16 (lecture) Diego RiveraOct 21-25 OLLI FALL BREAKOct 30 (lecture) Frida KahloNov 6 (lecture) Modern Mexican Art

Nov 13 (gallery section 2, 10:30-11:45; gallery section 3, 12:00-1:15) Special ExhibitionNov 14 (gallery section 4, 10:30-11:45; gallery section 5, 12:00-1:15) Special Exhibition

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Georgia O’Keeffe; Woman as Image & Image MakerAmerican Art to 1945

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Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Steiglitz Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

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Fritz HenleFrida in her studio, 1943 Studio of Dieago Rivera

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Anahuacalli Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art Pyramid in the courtyard of the Blue Housedisplaying pre-Hispanic pieces

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Diego Rivera mural in the National Palace, Mexico City Mural of The Jaguar People in Veracruz

Diego Rivera mural in the National Palace, Mexico City Mural of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan

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Colossal head, Olmec, La Venta, Mexico, 1500-300 BCE. Basalt, 8’ high, 21’ in circumference.

Ceremonial Ax, Olmec, from La Venta, Mexico, 1200-400 BCE. Jadeite, about 6” x 12”. British Museum

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Seated Figure, Olmecc. 800–400 BCETerracotta with traces of paintNCMA

Seated Figure, Las Bocas, Mexico, Olmec12th-9th century B.C.E.Ceramic, pigment Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Veracruz, Standing Female Deity or Deity Imposter, c. 600-900, Ceramic with white & black paint, NCMA

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Aerial view of Teotihuacán Valley

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Incense Burner, Guatemalan, c. 300-600Terracotta, NCMA

Incense Burner, Guatemalan, Maya c. 350-550 Terracotta, NCMA

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Ball Player, ceramicMetropolitan Museum

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Ball Court Marker, Maya, 600-900, NCMA

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Cylinder VaseGuatemalan, Mayac. 700-800Ceramic with red, orange and black on cream slip paint

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Picasso Rivera

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Picasso Matisse

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Picasso’s Bulls Kandinsky abstraction

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Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe(Man in the Time Machine), 1934. Fresco,Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City

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Thomas Hart Benton’s mural “America Today,” 1930-31, 10 panels, American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Instruments of Power, panel from “America Today”

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Rolling Power, 1939Oil on canvas, Smith College

Upper Deck, 1929, Oil on canvas, Fogg Museum, Harvard

Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965)

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Tullio Crali, , Arobats in the Sky, 1932Robert Delaunay, Hommage to Blerio, 1914Kunstmuseum, Basel

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Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe (Man in the Time Machine), 1934. Fresco,Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City

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Lyonel Feininger (American) 1871-1956, active in Germany 1887-1937, The Green Bridge, 1916, Oil on canvas, NCMA

Marsden Hartley, American (1877-1943) Indian Fantasy, 1914, Oil on canvas, NCMA

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), Panama Girls, 1911, NCMA

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) Portrait of Emy, 1919 NCMA

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David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) The End of the World, 1936Fogg Museum, Harvard l

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Max Ernst (German) 1891-1976Elephant from Celebes, 1921, Oil on canvas, Tate Gallery, London

Joan Miro (Spanish) 1893-1983 Harlequin Carnival, 1924-25 Oil on Canvas, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

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Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait on the border

between Mexico and the United States of

America, 1932

Frida Kahlo, Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed), 1932

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Josef Albers, Ballcourt at Monte Albán

c. 1936-37, Gelatin silver printThe Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

Josef Albers, Untitled Abstraction, c. 1940, Oil on blotting paperThe Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

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Homage to the Square: "New Planting,” 1956

Josef Albers, Germany, 1888-1976

Study for Homage to the Square: "Veiled,” 1958

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Modern Artists from the first part of the 20th century in the NCMA galleries