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The films and discussions will be held the third Wednesday of each month from 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm at the Rehoboth Beach Public Library. Registration is requested as space is limited. Click here to register for each monthly discussion group.
Monthly Film and Discussion Schedule
June 19 – Theme: From Impressionism To Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection. ISBN:dv214
A shrewd businessman, Chester Dale started out as a Wall Street messenger in the early years of the twentieth century. By the mid-1920s, he had earned the fortune that enabled him and his wife Maud to assemble one of the finest art collections in America. Chester Dale's gifts to the nation, numbering more than three hundred works of art, transformed the collections of the National Gallery of Art. (16 mins., with subtitles)
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Theme: Gauguin: Maker of Myth: ISBN:dv178
More than one hundred works by Paul Gauguin---including many of his most sumptuous, appealing colorful images---appear in "Gauguin: Maker of Myth," the first major exhibition of his work in the United States in twenty years. Organized around themes of the artist/creator, earthly paradise, the noble savage, and exotic Eve, it examines Gauguin's use of religious and mythological motifs to tell stories, as well as his reinvention and appropriation of myths drawn from his European cultural heritage and Polynesian legend. Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this thirty-minute film explores Gauguin's struggle to forge a new way of painting by creating myths---about both himself and the subjects he painted in Brittany, Martinique, and Polynesia. (This screening will take place at the Rehoboth Art League.)
July 17 – Theme: Art:21, Art in the 21st Century. Place
The experience of viewing art moves from static to dynamic as this PBS series takes its audience into the studios of contemporary American artists to witness their processes, hear their thoughts and see their art outside a gallery setting. With each episode focused on a single theme, viewers are treated to everything from sculptor Jeff Koons on the topic of fantasy to photographer Cindy Sherman on transformation. 58 minutes. . (This screening will take place at the Rehoboth Art League.)
August 21 – Theme: Art: 21, Art in the 21st Century. Spirituality
The experience of viewing art moves from static to dynamic as this PBS series takes its audience into the studios of contemporary American artists to witness their processes, hear their thoughts and see their art outside a gallery setting. With each episode focused on a single theme, viewers are treated to everything from sculptor Jeff Koons on the topic of fantasy to photographer Cindy Sherman on transformation. 54 minutes. (This screening will take place at the Rehoboth Art League.)
