Collection search - William Congdon : Expo Art

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

1986-0810

Film

1969-05-04

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director/producer, Leo Rampen (first item); director, Maggy Watchman (second item); executive producer, Leo Rampen

TV documentary on the art work displayed at the International Fine Arts Exhibit at Expo'67. Seen is footage of the displays of paintings and sculptures from every culture and historical period. Narrator Paul Soles reads a dramatic commentary on the theme, "Man and His World". There is also a documentary on William Congdon. Congdon, one of the world's foremost abstract expressionist painters, is interviewed at Assisi, Italy, on the subject of religious art. He gives his views on: church art today; the notion of sacred art in general; the religious quality of the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh; his understanding of Christ and baptism; and the sacred meaning of Cézanne's apples as compared with the Madonnas of Raphael. <54mn>

English

Open

GAD 0FD547

~Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

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