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Art Films In partnership with the Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the CRRL is proud to offer short films exploring artists and the creative process. Join us in the Headquarters Library Theater each month at 7:00 pm. All film viewings are FREE to the public. Films and notes courtesy of The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. | |
| THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 | |
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art:21 - Art in the 21st Century Season 1: Place, Spirituality, Identity, and Consumption For the past 4 seasons, this highly praised PBS series has taken viewers behind the scenes to provide an intimate portrait of some of today's most in-demand artists: their words, lives, works, sources of inspiration, and creative processes. Divided into four thematic parts, Season 1 is hosted by Steve Martin, Laurie Anderson, S. Epatha Merkerson, and John McEnroe. Artists: Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Michael Ray Charles, Mel Chin, John Feodorov, Ann Hamilton, Margaret Kilgallen, Beryl Korot, Barbara Kruger, Maya Lin, Sally Mann, Kerry James Marshall, Barry McGee, Bruce Nauman, Pepon Osario, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, James Turrell, William Wegman, and Andrea Zittel. Tonight’s screening offers a taste; check out the library's DVD to view the entire series. College through adult (60 min / 2001 / DVD ) |
| THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 | |
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Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz This video is narrated by Wynton Marsalis who masterfully draws parallels between jazz music and the art of Romare Bearden who aimed to do nothing less than "redefine the image of man" in terms of the African-American experience. The video also treats viewers to rare footage of Bearden at work in his studio while he explains, in his own words, what he is doing as he creates. High school through adult (28 min / 1999 / VHS) Jasper Johns: Take an Object Archive footage, comments from curator Mark Rosenthal, extracts from Johns' writing read by John Cage and readings from Samuel Beckett's 'Fizzles' are included in this portrait for one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century. College through adult (30 min / 1990 / VHS) |
| THURSDAY, MARCH 20 | |
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The Eighteenth-Century Woman Marie Antoinette, Madame du Pompadour, and Dolley Madison are a few of the women who, from heights of power, helped to shape the Age of Enlightenment. In this program, which corresponds to an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the roles of women in the 18th century are revealed through period diaries and writings, clothing, accessories, paintings, and music. High school through adult (55 min / 1982/ VHS) |
| THURSDAY, APRIL 24 | |
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art:21 - Art in the 21st Century Season 2: Stories, Loss and Desire, Time, and Humor This highly praised PBS series takes viewers behind the scenes to provide an intimate portrait of some of today's most in-demand artists: their words, lives, works, sources of inspiration, and creative processes. Divided into four thematic parts, Season 2 is hosted by John Waters, Jane Alexander, Merce Cunningham, and Margaret Cho. Artists: Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni, Charles Atlas, Vija Celmins, Walton Ford, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tim Hawkinson, Elizabeth Murray, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Martin Puryear, Callier Schorr, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, and Kara Walker. Tonight’s screening offers a taste; check out the library’s DVD to view the entire series. College through adult (60 min / 2003 / DVD ) |
| THURSDAY, MAY 15 | |
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Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life A quintessential American painter of the 19th and 20th centuries, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was fascinated by a rapidly changing world and captured it in his paintings and photographs. His exquisite studies of the human body at rest and motion reflect a perfect blend of scientific approach and poetic touch. This DVD follows his steps as a young art student in Paris, as a teacher in Philadelphia and his controversial insistence in using nude models, to his later life in North Dakota. College through adult (56 min / 2002 / DVD) |
| THURSDAY, JUNE 19 | |
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Furniture of Eastern Virginia This program, based on the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Furniture of Eastern Virginia: The Product of Mind and Hand, examines pieces of early furniture from Norfolk, Richmond, Fredericksburg, and the Eastern Shore. The theme of the styles reflects the Colonial craftsmen’s reliance on English design and the importance of function and available materials. College through adult (30 min / 1980 / VHS) Preserving the Past This program, one of the Innovation television productions, focuses on the conservation of murals, paintings, and other works on paper, as well as the preservation of historic buildings. Conservators at Winterthur Museum and Princeton University explain their projects, and we see a century-old court-house whose stone, wood, and marble are being restored. A portion of the restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper is viewed, and the effect of air pollution on sculpture and architecture is discussed. Middle school through adult (26 min / 1993 / VHS) |
| THURSDAY, JULY 17 | |
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Degenerate Art In the 1920s, Berlin was the art capital of the world, and German Expressionist art, with its passionate distortions, psychological insights, and personal glimpses of inner reality, flourished. This environment changed when the Nazi party came to power in 1933. Adolf Hitler viewed modern art as a symbol of all that was wrong in society, and this hatred generated the infamous art exhibition of 1937 entitled Entartete Kunst, or degenerate art. Six hundred fifty works by 112 artists, among them Ernst Kirchner, Oscar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Emile Nolde, and Max Beckmann, were displayed. Archival footage of the original show and interviews with artists’ relatives, art critics, and cultural historians complete this picture of government control and artistic censorship. High school through adult (55 min / 1993 / VHS) |
| THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 | |
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Sculptors at Storm King: Shaping American Art Imagine 400 acres of green, rolling landscape offered up to be an outdoor museum of some of the most significant monumental post-1945 sculpture. Through interviews, archival film of artists in action, and views of the awe-inspiring marvel in New York's Hudson River Valley, the story of Storm King Park is vividly captured in all due splendor. Sculptors on view at the park include David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, Kenneth Snelson, Mark di Suvero, and Richard Serra. High school through adult (47 min / 2000 / VHS) |
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 | |
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art:21 - Art in the 21st Century Season 3: Power, Memory, Structures, Play This highly praised PBS series takes viewers behind the scenes to provide an intimate portrait of some of today's most in-demand artists: their words, lives, works, sources of inspiration, and creative processes. Divided into four thematic parts, Season 3 is hosted by David Alan Grier, Isabella Rossellini, Sam Waterston, Grant Hill. Artists: Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Ellen Gallagher, Cai Guo-Qiang, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Josiah McElheny, Matthew Ritchie, Susan Rothenberg, Jessica Stockholder, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Krzyztof Wodiczko. Tonight’s screening offers a taste; check out the library’s DVD to view the entire series. College through adult (60 min / 2005 / DVD) |
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 | |
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Albrecht Durer: Image of a Master Albrecht Dürer, arguably the greatest artist of the northern Renaissance, was the primary conduit through whom Italian Renaissance forms and ideas were introduced into a Germany still dominated by the Gothic tradition. This timeless program examines the life and work of the peerless painter and printmaker, focusing on some of his most important pieces and influences. High school through adult (21 min / 2004 / VHS) Vermeer: The Magical Light Beginning with a brief overview of Dutch painting in the 1600s, this video proceeds to discuss in detail many of the 35 existing canvasses from Jan Vermeer's oeuvre. Vermeer's particular genius for capturing light and mood become evident under the lofty tutelage of French art critic Pierre Descargues. As well, the mysteries and deep complexities of the seemingly simple domestic scenes are addressed. College through adult, (45 min / 1999 / VHS) |
| THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 | |
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Horace Pippin: There Will Be Peace African-American folk artist, Horace Pippin (1888-1946), painted scenes from his life, his concerns, and dreams of peace for all people. His inspiring works ring with poetry and refreshing sincerity. Some of his most indelible images are of World War I after he was wounded in combat and honorably discharged. He developed his own style of wood burning technique combined with painting. The great actor Brock Peters narrates Pippin's actual words. Middle school through adult, (28 min / 1998 / VHS) Pablo Picasso's Guernica This video deciphers many of the mysteries of what is one of the best-known modernist paintings in history. The monumental work was made by Picasso driven by his revulsion to the infamous German bombing of a Spanish village under the watch of Fascist dictator Francisco Franco in the 1930s civil war. High school through adult (35 min / 1998 / VHS) |
| THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 | |
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art:21 - Art in the 21st Century Season 4: Romance, Protest, Ecology, and Paradox This highly praised PBS series takes viewers behind the scenes to provide an intimate portrait of some of today's most in-demand artists: their words, lives, works, sources of inspiration, and creative processes. Artists profiled include Robert Adams, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Mark Bradford, Mark Dion, Jenny Holzer, Pierre Huyghe, Alfredo Jaar, An-My Lê, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittman, Robert Ryman, Laurie Simmons, Nancy Spero, Catherine Sullivan, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. Tonight’s screening offers a taste; check out the library’s DVD to view the entire series. College through adult (60 min / 2007 / DVD ) |