Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol

Dennis Nothdruft looks back at one of the museum’s most popular exhibitions, Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol, originally staged in 2014.

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Join Head of Exhibitions Dennis Nothdruft as he looks back at one of the museum’s most popular exhibitions, Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol, originally exhibited in 2014.

The exhibition traced the history of 20th-century art in textiles, demonstrating how ordinary people were able to engage with modern art in a personal and intimate way through their clothing and home furnishings. Dennis will discuss some of the key pieces featured as part of the display and their relationship to European and American art movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Constructivism, Abstraction, Surrealism and Pop Art.

Highlights included work by Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Sonia Delaunay, Raoul Dufy, Barbara Hepworth, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Ben Nicholson and Andy Warhol.

Dennis will also speak about his favourite pieces from the over 200 rare examples included in the show, many of which had not been on public display before. Along with these key works, Dennis will reflect on the experience of putting Artist Textiles together with guest curators Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain and how the exhibition has toured around the world.

This is a recording of the online event, Artist Textiles​​​​​​, which originally took place on 19th February 2021 via Microsoft Teams.

About the speaker

Dennis Nothdruft is Head of Exhibitions at the Fashion and Textile Museum. He has led the exhibitions team at the Museum since it was founded by Zandra Rhodes in 2003 and previously spent many years working as a design assistant in Zandra Rhodes studios in both San Diego and London. He has lectured widely on many aspects of fashion and textiles and has authored several books including Zandra Rhodes: 50 Fabulous Years in Fashion, How to Draw Like a Fashion Designer, How to Draw Vintage Fashion and Kaffe Fassett: the Artist’s Eye.

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