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John and Abigail Adams Miniseries: Film History Livestream - Part 1 of 5
·OnlineOnlineJohn and Abigail Adams Miniseries: Film History Livestream - Part 1 of 5 - Hosted by Robert Kelleman
We invite you to join us for a special film history program commemorating the lives of President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams.
Our five-part John & Abigail Adams Film History Livestream program will occur at 7:00 PM et / 6:00 PM ct on consecutive Thursday nights in April (April 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30).
We'll be watching the entire 2008 epic television miniseries “John Adams”, starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams.Each nightly program will have two parts. The first part, approximately 15-20 minutes, will be an analysis and review of that night’s film episode, including: historical context, plot summary, things to look for, accuracy, etc. The second part, approximately 100 minutes, will be a full screening of the Adams miniseries (501 minutes spread over 5 nights).
During and after the programs you are invited to discuss John and Abigail Adams and the film with your fellow history lovers via Zoom.Please note that the programs are only available for viewing with us on the dates above, they will not be recorded, but they may be repeated someday.
However, you are also able to watch any of the segments on your own via various media outlets such as YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, etc. ($$$ probably required) or your local library.Adams Miniseries Trailer
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John Adams (October 30, 1735[a] - July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who was the second president of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, served as a diplomat in Europe, was twice elected vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Adams was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with many important figures in early American history, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams as well as his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson.
A lawyer and political activist prior to the Revolution, Adams successfully defended British soldiers against murder charges arising from the Boston Massacre. Adams was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress and became a leader of the revolution. He assisted Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776. As a diplomat in Europe, he helped negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain and secured vital governmental loans.
Adams was elected to two terms as vice president under President George Washington and was elected as the United States' second president in 1796. During his single term, Adams encountered fierce criticism from the Jeffersonian Republicans and from some in his own Federalist Party, led by his rival Alexander Hamilton. During his term, he became the first president to reside in the executive mansion now known as the White House.
John Adams died on July 4, 1826 - the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence - hours after Jefferson's death. Adams and his son are the only presidents of the first twelve that did not own slaves in their lives. Surveys of historians and scholars have favorably ranked his administration.Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 - October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the second first lady of the United States, although this title was not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women to have been married to one U.S. president and the mother of another.
Adams's life is one of the most documented of the First Ladies: she is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses. John frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics. Her letters also serve as eyewitness accounts of the American Revolutionary War home front.John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the 2001 book John Adams. by David McCullough. The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first 50 years of the United States was broadcast in seven parts by HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008. John Adams received widespread critical acclaim and many prestigious awards. The show won four Golden Globe awards and 13 Emmy awards, more than any other miniseries in history.
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Experience the history and culture of New York City - and the world!YouTube Previously Recorded Programs:
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John and Abigail Adams Miniseries: Film History Livestream - Part 2 of 5
·OnlineOnlineJohn and Abigail Adams Miniseries: Film History Livestream - Part 2 of 5 - Hosted by Robert Kelleman
We invite you to join us for a special film history program commemorating the lives of President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams.
Our five-part John & Abigail Adams Film History Livestream program will occur at 7:00 PM et / 6:00 PM ct on consecutive Thursday nights in April (April 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30).
We'll be watching the entire 2008 epic television miniseries “John Adams”, starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams.Each nightly program will have two parts. The first part, approximately 15-20 minutes, will be an analysis and review of that night’s film episode, including: historical context, plot summary, things to look for, accuracy, etc. The second part, approximately 100 minutes, will be a full screening of the Adams miniseries (501 minutes spread over 5 nights).
During and after the programs you are invited to discuss John and Abigail Adams and the film with your fellow history lovers via Zoom.Please note that the programs are only available for viewing with us on the dates above, they will not be recorded, but they may be repeated someday.
However, you are also able to watch any of the segments on your own via various media outlets such as YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, etc. ($$$ probably required) or your local library.Adams Miniseries Trailer
YouTube Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtajI8Tmsw***
John Adams (October 30, 1735[a] - July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who was the second president of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, served as a diplomat in Europe, was twice elected vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Adams was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with many important figures in early American history, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams as well as his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson.
A lawyer and political activist prior to the Revolution, Adams successfully defended British soldiers against murder charges arising from the Boston Massacre. Adams was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress and became a leader of the revolution. He assisted Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776. As a diplomat in Europe, he helped negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain and secured vital governmental loans.
Adams was elected to two terms as vice president under President George Washington and was elected as the United States' second president in 1796. During his single term, Adams encountered fierce criticism from the Jeffersonian Republicans and from some in his own Federalist Party, led by his rival Alexander Hamilton. During his term, he became the first president to reside in the executive mansion now known as the White House.
John Adams died on July 4, 1826 - the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence - hours after Jefferson's death. Adams and his son are the only presidents of the first twelve that did not own slaves in their lives. Surveys of historians and scholars have favorably ranked his administration.Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 - October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the second first lady of the United States, although this title was not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women to have been married to one U.S. president and the mother of another.
Adams's life is one of the most documented of the First Ladies: she is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses. John frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics. Her letters also serve as eyewitness accounts of the American Revolutionary War home front.John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the 2001 book John Adams. by David McCullough. The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first 50 years of the United States was broadcast in seven parts by HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008. John Adams received widespread critical acclaim and many prestigious awards. The show won four Golden Globe awards and 13 Emmy awards, more than any other miniseries in history.
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When all else fails please follow the directions.***
Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations New York History & Culture and Texas History & Culture.
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Experience the history and culture of New York City - and the world!YouTube Previously Recorded Programs:
http://www.Youtube.com/c/WashingtonDCHistoryCultureDonations Support Our Non-Profit Community Programs - Thank You!
PayPal: DCHistoryAndCulture@gmail.com
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GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/d29491c0We look forward to seeing you. Thanks!
Robert Kelleman
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Art Institute of Chicago: The American Collection - Part 1 of 2
·OnlineOnlineArt Institute of Chicago: The American Collection - Two-Part Art History Series Hosted by Robert Kelleman
You’re invited to join us for a 2-part livestreamed art history series covering the fabulous American art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of my favorite places.
The American galleries in Chicago feature one of the world’s top collections of American art, with works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and more.
Out art history program will highlight “The American Experience”, including various aspects of Chicago history and culture.
During and after the program you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the art with your fellow participants via Zoom.Part 1 of 2 - Early America, Antebellum & The Civil War America, and the Gilded Age.
Friday, April 10Part 2 of 2 – Early Modern and Modern, including Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks.
Friday, April 17***
Art Institute of Art: The American Collection
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Monet & Impressionism
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Renoir & Impressionism
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The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. It is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present curatorial and scientific research.
As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, one of the nation's largest art history and architecture libraries.
The growth of the collection has warranted several additions to the museum's 1893 building, which was constructed for the World's Columbian Exposition. The most recent expansion, the Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano, opened in 2009 and increased the museum's footprint to nearly one million square feet, making it the second-largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Institute is associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a leading art school, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States.***
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Caravaggio & The Italian Baroque - Art History Livestream
·OnlineOnlineCaravaggio & The Italian Baroque - Art History Livestream Hosted by Robert Kelleman
You are invited to join us for an art history livestream program covering the Italian painter Caravaggio, one of the greatest artists in history, especially noted for his dramatic use of light and shadow, and his influence on the Baroque era.
During and after the program you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the art with your fellow art lovers via Zoom.Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows. Caravaggio vividly expressed crucial moments and scenes, often featuring violent struggles, torture, and death. He worked rapidly with live models, preferring to forgo drawings and work directly onto the canvas. His inspiring effect on the new Baroque style that emerged from Mannerism was profound.
His influence can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Velázquez and Rembrandt.
Caravaggio's innovations inspired Baroque painting, but the latter incorporated the drama of his chiaroscuro without the psychological realism. The 20th-century art historian André Berne-Joffroy stated: "What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting."Baroque Painting encompasses a great range of styles, as most important and major painting during the period beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century, and into the early 18th century is identified today as Baroque painting. In its most typical manifestations, Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep colour, and intense light and dark shadows, but the classicism of French Baroque painters like Poussin and Dutch genre painters such as Vermeer are also covered by the term, at least in English. As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring: Michelangelo, working in the High Renaissance, shows his David composed and still before he battles Goliath; Bernini's Baroque David is caught in the act of hurling the stone at the giant. Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance.
Among the greatest painters of the Baroque period are Velázquez, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, and Vermeer.***
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