Join us for
a free screening of this documentary related to the visual arts.
Produced by
the National Gallery of Canada, this stimulating documentary takes the viewer
on a fast ride through the 1950’s, carting the different manifestations of
abstract painting that appeared in that dramatic decade. The film features such
important Québecois artists as the Automatists Paul-Émile Borduas, Jean-Paul
Riopelle, and Marcelle Ferron, as well as members of a younger generation of
abstractionists, Cluade Tousignant and Guido Molinari. Painters from English
Canada – Jack Bush, William Ronald, Jack Shadbolt and Ron Bloore – convey the
motivations that drove painters to seek new expression in Toronto, Regina and
the West Coast. Newsreel footage and references to popular culture of the
1950’s, interspersed with the interviews, help to capture the context and
flavor of a turbulent era.
Public
Programs Officer Pat Sullivan will introduce the film and give a short tour of
Keywork exhibition Borduas: Figure With
Birds after the screening.
