Entertainment US Collection - Phillips Collection reopens with Impressionist masterpieces
NAME: US COLLECT 20060418I
TAPE: EF06/0333
IN_TIME: 10:08:03:14
DURATION: 00:02:26:05
SOURCES: AP TELEVISION
DATELINE: Washington DC - 17 April 2006
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SHOTLIST:
1. Exterior of Phillips Collection art gallery
2. Close up of sign at entrance
3. Wide of gallery interior with impressionist paintings
4. Wide of Pierre Bonnard paintings
5. Mid view of Bonnard''s "The Palm"
6. Zoom in from hall to Pierre-Auguste Renoir''s "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
7. Various close ups of "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator, Phillips Collection:
"It''s a picture of joy and life''s pleasure, but it also is, of course, an impressionist painting which means it''s full of light and it is enormously colourful and it''s painted with a tremendously lively brush-stroke that Renoir was such a master of."
9. Wide of gallery with Renoir''s "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
10. Close up of Vincent Van Gogh''s "Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles, 1888"
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator, Phillips Collection:
"After he (Van Gogh) had been introduced to impressionism in Paris, he had the very vibrant palette that he adopted from the impressionists, and yet, when he came to the south of France, be began to develop a style uniquely his own."
12. Vincent Van Gogh''s "Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles, 1888"
13. Pan from Henri Matisse''s "Interior with Egyptian Curtain, 1948" to gallery interior
14. Various of Georges Braque''s "The Round Table, 1929"
15. Close up of Braque''s "The Round Table, 1929"
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator, Phillips Collection:
"That is one of the things that''s so special about the Phillips Collection is this setting where you feel very at home, you feel very welcomed, it''s an enormously inviting atmosphere in which to look at really great works of art."
17. Mid of Daumier''s Gallery
18. Pablo Picasso''s "Bullfight, 1934"
19. Close up of Picasso''s "Bullfight, 1934"
20. Wide pan of gallery with impressionist paintings
STORYLINE:
After a four year, 27 (m) million US dollar renovation and addition project, a collection of impressionist and modern works of art went back on display in a new home in Washington DC on Monday.
Nearly 100 paintings returned home to the Phillips Collection where the new galleries re-opened their doors to the public.
The Phillips Collection started out as the private collection of Duncan Phillips, an American industrialist who opened his house to visitors so they could see the new European impressionist works.
"That is one of the things that''s so special about the Phillips Collection is this setting where you feel very at home, you feel very welcomed, it''s an enormously inviting atmosphere in which to look at really great works of art", Chief Curator for the Collection, Eliza Rathbone said.
One of the first works he selected for his new collection was Renoir''s "Luncheon of the Boating Party," a celebration of an afternoon of friendship and sport along the banks of the Seine in Paris.
Phillips bought the painting in 1923 with an eye to making it the centrepiece of his impressionist collection.
"It''s a picture of joy and life''s pleasure, but it also is of course an impressionist painting which means it''s full of light and it is enormously colourful and it''s painted with a tremendously lively brush-stroke that Renoir was such a master of", Rathbone said of the work.
Another painting in a new environment is Vincent Van Gogh''s "Entrance to the Public Garden at Arles".
Rathbone said in Arles, Van Gogh developed his vibrant, thick impasto style that became the signature of an artist who sold one painting during his lifetime.
For four years, the collection''s major works, including the highly popular "Luncheon of the Boating Party," were on an international tour with stops in Japan, Paris, Switzerland as well as numerous American cities.
The works were seen by over two (m) million people on three continents.
The Phillips Collection is noted for its broad representation of both impressionist and modern paintings, with works by European masters such as Bonnard, Cezanne, Degas and Matisse.
During his lifetime, Phillips had the courage to acquire paintings by many artists who were not yet fully recognised, including Georgia O''Keefe, Arthur Dove, and Milton Avery.
The new gallery exhibition continues until July 21.
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