Creating Illusions: Geometric Abstraction & Op Art

You are invited to view the individual lectures of the course "A brief history of art in Latin America in the XX century". 

If you are interested in the whole course and decide to purchase it after your class, the price of this class will be discounted from the full price of the course. You will receive access to the recordings of the previous classes. 

About this Lecture: 

In Latin America, geometric abstraction arose as an apolitical expression that allowed artists to understand art as a form of knowledge to comprehend the world through reason and order. Although their investigations and aesthetic results were vastly different from one another, each movement arose in a particular moment of their country's history characterised by economic development, short political stability and a thrive for industrial modernisation. This lecture will study the consequences of these investigations and how they diverted from the European interpretation…