T.J. Clark has written numerous influential books on modern art, including his most recent Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (2013), which emerged from his 2009 lectures for the prestigious A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts series at the National Gallery of Art. In this lecture—the 2014 Lambert Family Lecture at the Wexner Center for the Arts—Clark will focus on two large-scale nudes that lie at the center of Picasso’s production in 1932: Nu au plateau de sculpteur (Nude, green leaves, and bust) and Nu au fauteuil noir (Nude in a Black Armchair), the latter of which is featured in this fall’s exhibition. Clark will guide the audience through the paintings’ differences—in terms of their intimacy and eroticism, the way they position the viewer, and the space they give to the naked subject. He’ll also consider how Picasso’s treatment of the odalisque relates to Henri Matisse’s take on this traditional subject for paintings of female nudes.
The lecture is free to the public, but a ticket is required
