The Southern Alberta Art Gallery is exploring some of the word’s greatest artists through the ”Power of Art” — a series of Simon Schama’s BBC films every Tuesday at noon as part of the gallery’s Tuesday’s @noon series. The 50 minute long films focus on the work of eight iconic artists.
The series began Feb. 9 with a feature of Caravagio and continues Feb. 16 with Bernini. This series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages.
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery describes them as A“ combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama’s unique, personal style of storytelling.” They transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic work of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter.
In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.
Tea and coffee are complimentary at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery‘s free weekly film series, which runs annually from September through June to compliment our changing exhibition program and highlight issues of the day. All Tuesdays @ Noon films are screened in the Turcotte Library at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
February 9: Caravagio
February 16: Bernini
February 23: Rembrandt
March 2: David
March 9: Turner
March 16: Van Gogh
March 23: Picasso
March 30: Rothko
— Submitted to L.A, Beat
