FAC Screening Room

In conjunction with Impressionist and Modern Masters from the New Orleans Museum of Art, the FAC presents a special Saturday afternoon film series, January 19 – March 1, 2008 in the Screening Room.

Shock of the New Robert Hughes’ History of Modern Art from Impressionism to Cubism to Pop This acclaimed BBC series picks up at the threshold of the 20^th Century. It was written and presented by Robert Hughes, art critic and senior writer for Time Magazine. Hughes draws on a wealth of documentary materials from the archives of the BBC, including rare footage and interviews with noted artists. The range of major figures includes Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and Jackson Pollock.
Each episode includes an introduction by FAC museum staff.
Saturday, January 19	1 p.m.	The Landscape at Pleasure “The South of France and the Mediterranean became a generator of color-filled images of well-being that permeated the work of Monet, Cezanne and other Impressionists.”
Saturday, January 26	1 p.m.	The Mechanical Paradise “The period 1870-1914 was one of the hinge point in Western Culture. Its emblem, the Eiffel Tower, symbolized the reign of the engineer, the inventor. This is the era of Picasso and Matisse’s greatest work.”
Saturday, February 2	1 p.m.	The Powers that Be “Dada and Expressionism were set against the collapse of Germany after World War I. The avant garde’s energies were about to be used in service of real political revolutions.”
Saturday, February 9	1 p.m.	The Threshold of Liberty “Surrealism was the last revolutionary art movement of the Twentieth Century, much like a religion. Dali, Mire and Magritte were striving to liberate the unconscious mind through fantasy/reality.”
Saturday, February 16	1 p.m.	The View from the Edge “The course of art was again forever changed by the realities of the Nazi death camps whose horrors surpassed any distortions of the human body an artist could imagine.”
Saturday, February 23	1 p.m.	Culture as Nature “In the mid 20^th-century, symbols of modern culture, reflecting the power of mass media, advertising, radio and television, became subjects for artists. Pop art exploded onto the scene.”
Saturday, March 1	1 p.m.	The Future That Was “We sit at the end of a cycle. The new age of Modernism that began with this century is now the establishment, as are its consequences.”