May 7 Art Film

The Story of Women and Art

Episode 2:  Through the Age of Reason

Art Film for May 2018

At the Vineyard Center on May 8th at 7:00 P.M. we will revisit The Story of Women and Art produced by Matchlight Limited (2013) and narrated by Amanda Vickery. This time in Episode 2 we follow the story of women artists through the Age of Enlightenment.

The opening of  The Royal Academy of Arts in London, founded to uphold professionalism, offer training  and display contemporary art while open to women held sanctions against most of the women crafts despite the fact that 2 of ITS 32 founding members were women; floral artist Mary Moser and painter Angelica Kauffman. This was the point in time where the hierarchy of “Art”over “craft” got established and remains debated in the art world today.

Nonetheless, it gives historical perspective to our name “The Villages Arts and Crafts Association”.

The film introduces women artists who broke out into many new areas changing the textile industry, the center of  the fashion world, possibilities for women in sculpture, architecture, historical painting as well as creating new financial markets for art. But for me, the most remarkable stories evolve around the ill fated Arts Patron Marie Antionette and her two protégées, the beautiful portrait painter Louise-Elizabeth Vigée le Brun and fashion designer Rose Bertin. I will not give away the ending.

Join us on May 8th in the Vineyard Center at 7:00 P.M.

Presented by the Villages Arts and Crafts Association

                                                                                                    by Pam Oliver Lyons