Invitation to Art; Women and Beauty

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Title:
Invitation to Art; Women and Beauty
Description:
Direct from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This series explores man and the world around him through the eyes of artists, past and present, and aims to develop an understanding of art as a direct expression of universal emotions. As the host, Dr. Brian O'Doherty, young Irish poet, painter and art critic, brings a fresh, witty and warmly human point of view to the visual arts. Dr. Brian O'Doherty, a native of Ireland, was a Fellow for Research in Education at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Formerly, he was art critic, reviewer for the Dublin Magazine and lecturer at the National Gallery of Ireland. In this episode, O'Doherty showcases art housed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that focuses on women and beauty. Some art featured includes Egyptian sculpture, Greek sculpture, Iranian sculpture and Buddhist sculpture. O'Doherty also discusses the Mona Lisa and shows a piece by English artist Thomas Rowlandson. The multiple varieties of beauty which artist have created, and to which they have subscribed, are explored through many great epochs of art to the present day. The violence of primitive African art is contrasted with the highly subtle and sophisticated art of ancient Greece. The smile is considered in its subtle variations. And the satiric impulse of the artist when confronted with feminine vanity finds entertaining expression in prints and drawings. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) This series explores man and the world around him through the eyes of artists, past and present, and aims to develop an understanding of art as a direct expression of universal emotions. As the host, Dr. Brian O'Doherty, young Irish poet, painter, and art critic, brings a fresh, witty and warmly human point of view to the visual arts. In the first season (episodes 1 - 15), O'Doherty follows, through these arts, the cycle of man from childhood to old age and explores the society in which man lives in all its aspects - tragic, comic, and mundane. Dr. O'Doherty uses works of art now on display in the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, to illustrate the episodes. Patricia Barnard of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts supervises production. Her assistant is Thalia Kennedy of the Museum staff. In the second season (episodes 16 - 30), each episode either examines in detail the work and thought of one of the great artists of the past, or consists of skillful and sympathetic interviews by Dr. O'Doherty of distinguished living artists who have had a powerful influence upon the art of today. In the third season (episode 31 - 34), Dr. O'Doherty interviews a distinguished American artist who have had a powerful influence upon the art of today. In the fourth season (episodes 35 - 41), a pattern of ideas evolves, revealing the various roles of the artist. This series was originally record in black and white on kinescope. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Director:
Lyford, Carot
Author:
O'Doherty, Brian
Author:
Vento, Frank
Author:
Kennedy, Thalia
Date:
1960
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive > Invitation to Art
Subjects:
Education
Fine Arts
Beauty
O'Doherty, Brian
Sculpture
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Art & Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Caricature
Painting
Extent:
00:28:56
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-td9n29pg2q
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the WGBH Educational Foundation
Notes:
Episode Number: 3