MFAH Film Series – Armchair Travel: Old Master Exhibition on Screen – Goya (Thursday & Sunday)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents an MFAH Film Series – Armchair Travel: Old Master Exhibition on Screen.

This summer, marvel, and delight at the work of six of the greatest painters in the history of art in the comfort of Brown Auditorium Theate r— Rembrandt, Goya, Vermeer, Munch, Matisse, and Renoir.

Produced by London-based Exhibition on Screen, these films feature blockbuster art exhibitions from galleries in Europe and the USA. Each film explores the process of putting the exhibition together, the exhibition’s key works, commentary and interviews with curators and leading art historians, and a revealing biography of the artist.

Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood
Francisco Goya, Spain’s most celebrated artist, is widely considered the father of modern art. Not only a brilliant observer of everyday life and Spain’s troubled past, he was a gifted portrait painter and social commentator par excellence.

His genius was reappraised in the much-anticipated landmark exhibition, Goya: The Portraits, at The National Gallery, London (October 2015-January 2016). The film uses this exhibition to look in depth at Goya’s eventful life. Through extensive location footage, Goya’s revealing letters, and a unique exhibition of masterpieces from great collections across the world, the film builds a fascinating portrait of the painter and the colorful world he painted.

Influenced by Rembrandt and Velázquez, Goya explored a new realism where he did not flatter and was not afraid to reveal what he saw physically and psychologically. Yet this did not stop him securing major commissions from powerful individuals seeking the prestige of being painted by the best artist of the day.

All of Goya’s sitters—royalty, aristocrats, politicians and close friends—were subjected to his highly modern approach that captured rapid changes of expression, gesture and emotion. Goya’s powerful vision and technical brilliance make him one of the most admired and revered artists in the history of Western art.

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