The Light and Shadows of Paris / Sava Šumanović and European Realism Between the Two World Wars

Lecture by Tamara Ognjević, MA, with interpretation in sign language, entitled ’The Light and Shadows of Paris’ will be held in the Pavle Beljenski Memorial Collection on 27 October, as an accompanying programme of the ‘Sava Šumanović and European Realism Between the Two World Wars’ exhibition. The lecture is a short chronicle of artistic realities from the Belle Epoque to the ‘roaring twenties’.

In the period after the Great War, Paris becomes an urban centre where the necessary cultural-political-economic preconditions for the transformation of the artist into an independent, modern one will be formed. The French capital will retain its position as an artistic centre where constant creative (r)evolution continues until the beginning of World War II. Tamara Ognjević, MA, will speak about Paris as the meeting place of the most unusual group of people in its long history, with special emphasis on the ‘roaring twenties.’