Art á la Carte | Free Video Series
Join us every Wednesday at 12:15p for a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch or pick up something from The Palette Café.
The Art of The 19th Century
Wednesday, July 6
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This film's vast span ranges from Goya's "pinturas negras" to the light-flooded pictures of the Impressionists.Selected masterpieces of Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Historicism and Impressionism illustrate the manifold and diverse phenomena of this most extensive epoch in architecture, sculpture and painting. 50 min.
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Edouard Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
Wednesday, July 13
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Edouard Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe. The full story of the painting that many believe is the beginning of modern art is revealed in this program. 60 min.
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Renoir: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
Wednesday, July 20
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Renoir: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette. This painting was once described as the most beautiful of all the artworks of the 19th century. Certainly, it seems the happiest. But beneath Renoir's joyful portrayal of working class Parisians at leisure is another, darker story. 6...
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Degas: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
Wednesday, July 27
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Degas: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. This program reveals the story of the real woman who Degas used as a model and includes revelations about how the statue as actually made. 60 min.
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Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch
Wednesday, August 3
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch. Why should a painting of a group of part-time Amsterdam militiamen, dressed up for an occasion that wasn’t serious anyway, have become the most revered painting in Holland? 50 min.
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Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting
Wednesday, August 10
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting. Of all Vermeer’s paintings, it was probably this picture that he held in greatest esteem. 50 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p...
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Diego Velazquez: The Rokeby Venus
Wednesday, August 17
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Velazquez's portrait of a young woman lying naked on a couch gazing at her reflection in a mirror held by Cupid has an extraordinary story. 50 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants...
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Francisco Goya: The Third of May 1808
Wednesday, August 24
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This masterpiece by Goya is arguably the most powerful painting about war ever achieved. 50 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch or pick up something from The...
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Eugene Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Wednesday, August 31
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The great revolutionary masterpiece was painted by a man who soon complained that revolutions got in the way of dinner parties. 50 min.
Art à la Carte is a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. It is offered free of charge on Wednesdays at 12:15p. Participants are encouraged to bring...
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FIA Closed – Labor Day
Monday, September 5
12:00am
The FIA is closed in observance of Labor Day.
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