Sat September 7, 2013
The Stein Family: The Making of Modern Art
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A screening of filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard‘s acclaimed documentary of the Stein family, produced in conjunction with the Paris leg of the recent traveling exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, which was on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2011.
This is the first film to relate the history of that unconventional family. The Steins were among the first collectors to buy works of art by Matisse and Picasso. They opened up their homes to the artistic avant-garde movements of their time and built up an incomparable modern art collection. The documentary highlights the Steins’ contribution to modern art, covering Leo’s perspective on the sources of modernity, Gertrude’s friendship with Picasso, Sarah and Michael’s links to Matisse, and the projects Gertrude launched in the 1920s and 30s with artists such as Picasso, Gris, Masson and Picabia.
Based in Paris, France, artist and filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard grew up partially in the San Francisco Bay area and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown her photographs and films widely in museums and galleries, both here and abroad, including at Dinter Fine Art in New York and the Marie Victoire Poliakoff Gallery in Paris.
No stranger to The Emerald Tablet, several early films by Lennard were included in the December 2012 screening of Bohemian Nights 3: Beat Attitude, a program of artists films developed by Ingrid Dinter.
Co-produced by Artline films and the Rmn-GP and Arte. Lennard will be present for the screening.
Running time: 54 minutes
THE STEIN FAMILY: the making of modern art
Delicious complimentary snacks. Drinks by donation.
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This is the first film to relate the history of that unconventional family. The Steins were among the first collectors to buy works of art by Matisse and Picasso. They opened up their homes to the artistic avant-garde movements of their time and built up an incomparable modern art collection. The documentary highlights the Steins’ contribution to modern art, covering Leo’s perspective on the sources of modernity, Gertrude’s friendship with Picasso, Sarah and Michael’s links to Matisse, and the projects Gertrude launched in the 1920s and 30s with artists such as Picasso, Gris, Masson and Picabia.
Based in Paris, France, artist and filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard grew up partially in the San Francisco Bay area and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown her photographs and films widely in museums and galleries, both here and abroad, including at Dinter Fine Art in New York and the Marie Victoire Poliakoff Gallery in Paris.
No stranger to The Emerald Tablet, several early films by Lennard were included in the December 2012 screening of Bohemian Nights 3: Beat Attitude, a program of artists films developed by Ingrid Dinter.
Co-produced by Artline films and the Rmn-GP and Arte. Lennard will be present for the screening.
Running time: 54 minutes
THE STEIN FAMILY: the making of modern art
Delicious complimentary snacks. Drinks by donation.
A screening of filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard‘s acclaimed documentary of the Stein family, produced in conjunction with the Paris leg of the recent traveling exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, which was on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2011.
This is the first film to relate the history of that unconventional family. The Steins were among the first collectors to buy works of art by Matisse and Picasso. They opened up their homes to the artistic avant-garde movements of their time and built up an incomparable modern art collection. The documentary highlights the Steins’ contribution to modern art, covering Leo’s perspective on the sources of modernity, Gertrude’s friendship with Picasso, Sarah and Michael’s links to Matisse, and the projects Gertrude launched in the 1920s and 30s with artists such as Picasso, Gris, Masson and Picabia.
Based in Paris, France, artist and filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard grew up partially in the San Francisco Bay area and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown her photographs and films widely in museums and galleries, both here and abroad, including at Dinter Fine Art in New York and the Marie Victoire Poliakoff Gallery in Paris.
No stranger to The Emerald Tablet, several early films by Lennard were included in the December 2012 screening of Bohemian Nights 3: Beat Attitude, a program of artists films developed by Ingrid Dinter.
Co-produced by Artline films and the Rmn-GP and Arte. Lennard will be present for the screening.
Running time: 54 minutes
THE STEIN FAMILY: the making of modern art
Delicious complimentary snacks. Drinks by donation.
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This is the first film to relate the history of that unconventional family. The Steins were among the first collectors to buy works of art by Matisse and Picasso. They opened up their homes to the artistic avant-garde movements of their time and built up an incomparable modern art collection. The documentary highlights the Steins’ contribution to modern art, covering Leo’s perspective on the sources of modernity, Gertrude’s friendship with Picasso, Sarah and Michael’s links to Matisse, and the projects Gertrude launched in the 1920s and 30s with artists such as Picasso, Gris, Masson and Picabia.
Based in Paris, France, artist and filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard grew up partially in the San Francisco Bay area and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown her photographs and films widely in museums and galleries, both here and abroad, including at Dinter Fine Art in New York and the Marie Victoire Poliakoff Gallery in Paris.
No stranger to The Emerald Tablet, several early films by Lennard were included in the December 2012 screening of Bohemian Nights 3: Beat Attitude, a program of artists films developed by Ingrid Dinter.
Co-produced by Artline films and the Rmn-GP and Arte. Lennard will be present for the screening.
Running time: 54 minutes
THE STEIN FAMILY: the making of modern art
Delicious complimentary snacks. Drinks by donation.
show less
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