Exhibition on Screen is offering access to the world’s greatest institutions and leading international art experts, each film is a cinematic journey into the personal and creative lives of history’s best-loved artists.
This series of Exhibition on Screen is presented in partnership with McConnell Arts Center, Gateway Film Center, and Columbus Museum of Art. We are excited to present art documentaries at each location with this partnership.
McConnell Arts Center, Gateway Film Center, and the Museum will be presenting 6 films total with an exclusive preview of one film at each location.
Tickets are $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers at the Museum.
Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman
Directed by Ali Ray, running time: 93 minutes
March 9, 7:00–9:00 PM
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted.
She printed, sketched, and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet she never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the language of art.
The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.
Other Showings:
Gateway Film Center
McConnell Arts Center: March 10, 7:00 PM
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
Gateway Film Center
April 8, 1:00 PM