10 Jun Film on American artist George Caleb Bingham – July 5
This summer, the Rossmoor Art Association (RAA) screens two films on noted artists, George Caleb Bingham and Andy Goldsworth. The films will be shown on the first Wednesday of July and August in Peacock Hall at 1:00 pm. This will be the first year RAA has held meetings in July and August.
The film on July 5 is The American Artist, a biographical docu-drama about the life and times of George Caleb Bingham. The film follows his early life along the banks of the Missouri River through the 1860s, when he reached the height of his career.
His painting are shown as a force that shaped the American identity by documenting the optimism of pre-war America, the turmoil in Missouri during the war, and the reemergency of democracy during Reconstruction.
A self-taught painter, Bingham began as a portrait artist and continued painting portraits throughout his career. But his most significnt pieces, painted between 1845 and 1860, are graphic narratives of social and political life on the frontier.
Although art was his passion and chosen profession, Bingham also had stong, and sometims combative, political views. These were often portrayed in his paintings, and they lead him into a parallel life as a politician.
After his death in 1879, Bingham was all but forgotten. H only started to be rediscovered in the 1930s, when the Metropolitan Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum began to exhibit his work. Bingham is now considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century and is in the collections of many great American art museums.
The American Artist was produced by Kansas City-based Wide Awake films and shot in Missouri where Bingham lived and worked. It features music by Yo-Yo Ma and others and is narrated by Keith David. Running time is approximately 60 minutes.
The film on July 5 is The American Artist, a biographical docu-drama about the life and times of George Caleb Bingham. The film follows his early life along the banks of the Missouri River through the 1860s, when he reached the height of his career.
His painting are shown as a force that shaped the American identity by documenting the optimism of pre-war America, the turmoil in Missouri during the war, and the reemergency of democracy during Reconstruction.
A self-taught painter, Bingham began as a portrait artist and continued painting portraits throughout his career. But his most significnt pieces, painted between 1845 and 1860, are graphic narratives of social and political life on the frontier.
Although art was his passion and chosen profession, Bingham also had stong, and sometims combative, political views. These were often portrayed in his paintings, and they lead him into a parallel life as a politician.
After his death in 1879, Bingham was all but forgotten. H only started to be rediscovered in the 1930s, when the Metropolitan Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum began to exhibit his work. Bingham is now considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century and is in the collections of many great American art museums.
The American Artist was produced by Kansas City-based Wide Awake films and shot in Missouri where Bingham lived and worked. It features music by Yo-Yo Ma and others and is narrated by Keith David. Running time is approximately 60 minutes.
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