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Jean Siméon Chardin – Painter
Artists series
The "Artists" series is an introduction to the lives and works of great masters of painting. Each film presents a particular painter, and takes an enjoyable and instructive look at the sources of modernity in art.
Director(s): Michaël Gaumnitz
Genre
Documentary
Copyright
1999
Length
26 minutes
Producer(s)
Esther Hoffenberg, Lapsus Production
Co-producer(s)
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, La Cinquième, Musée du Louvre, Arion Média, avec le soutien du Ministère de l’Education Nationale
Selections / Awards
Selected for the 18th International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal, 2000
This film is the portrait of a painter whom Diderot, his contemporary, described as a "magician": Jean Siméon Chardin. This "painter of silences" worked wonders with the reality of everyday life, within the confines of the house or even of the kitchen.
Available for sale on the publisher's website.