FREE Interactive Multimedia Lecture with Art Historian Patricia Briggs … Why did major modernist artists like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gaugin, Paul Cezanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso turn away from naturalism and move toward abstraction? Art Historian Patricia Briggs presents two informal slide lectures that guide audience members through the basics of modernist abstraction during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part Two focuses on Cubism and Pure Abstraction and features artists such as Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. No prior background in art is necessary for this interactive presentation. No prior background in art is necessary for this interactive presentation. Admission is FREE, donations accepted at the door