David Dunlop returns with 6 new programs
exploring the lives and work of celebrated artists at beautiful
locations that inspired them. Launched: May 1, 2013,
Funding ends: May 31, 2013
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We’re back! Season 2 of the Emmy® Award winning television
series about art and painting, Landscapes
through Time with David Dunlop, returns with six
new programs featuring six of your favorite artists filmed in beautiful
locations that inspired them. Inspired by David Dunlop’s
infectious enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge, Landscapes
Through Time combines art, history, travel, philosophy,
science and technique to explore the lives and art of these artists.
Your contribution will help us produce our Season Two, and you will
receive a Special Kickstarter Price for the DVD set ($50.00 instead of
$79.95) - as well as other great rewards.
Our New Programs for Season Two of Landscapes
through Time. Host, writer and artist David Dunlop
and producer, director and editor Connie Simmons are teaming up again
to create Season Two, which will available in time for the Holiday
Season. We will visit Venice, the Hudson Valley, New Mexico
and Maine to examine the lives and techniques of art legends Turner,
Guardi, Whistler, O’Keefe, Homer and Bellows. Shot on site
and in the studio, the programs will again feature David Dunlop’s
unique insight into the personal, artistic, and historic context in
which these artists’ worked and he will examine the evolution of their
artistic lives and works.
In Season Two, David places his easel at the same locations where the
artists set theirs and paints the same scenes, demonstrating the
individual style and techniques of each painter while discussing
artistic, technical, optical and perceptual insights, incorporating
recent scholarship in art history and neuroscience. He explains each
step of their painting process - showing how they painted and how they
thought.
Season
Two Programs
Season Two will include six programs from the following list. We have
already produced three programs, and we will shoot the additional
programs this summer, depending upon the funding and the weather:
(a) Winslow Homer's Seas at Prouts Neck, Maine (already
produced);
(b) Mysterious Tide Pools of Winslow Homer’s Prouts
Neck, Maine (already produced);
(c) Intimate Streams of the Hudson River Painters
(already produced);
(d) J.M.W. Turner’s Visions of Venice (Summer production);
(e) Venice, City of Illusion of Francesco Guardi
(Summer production);
(f) James Abbott McNeil Whistler's Venice
(Summer production);
(g) The Venice of John Singer Sargent
(Summer production);
(h) Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico (Summer
production); and
(i) George Bellows in New York
(Summer production).
Funding
Goals and Plans
Since we do not receive funding from public television sources, we
really rely upon the support of viewers like you. Corporate and
government sponsors are difficult to find for television arts
programming, but we continue our efforts because these six programs
cost more than our Kickstarter Goals.
We have set a basic and an additional Kickstarter goal:
$20,000 - We will produce the six
half-hour programs for Season Two and a three-hour DVD (six half-hour
programs) by Winter, 2013.?
$45,000 – We will produce the six
half-hour programs for Season Two and a three-hour DVD by Winter, 2013,
and distribute the Second Season on public television in the Winter,
2013.
What happens if we receive contributions greater than $20,000 but less
than $45,000?
Since the production costs of our six programs are higher than our
Kickstarter Goals, any contributions greater than the goals will be
applied to the production of the Second Season.
When will the Season Two DVDs be
Available?
For our Kickstarter supporters, the Season Two
DVDs of Landscapes through Time will be available as soon as they are
completed in the Fall/Winter, 2013, but not later than November 30,
2013, and after the first broadcast on public television for everyone
else, which we anticipate will occur several months later.
How We Will Spend Your Kickstarter Contributions.
We will use your Kickstarter Contributions to
fund the following: HD camera and equipment rental fees, location fees
in Venice and New Mexico, license fees for the images of the paintings
included in the programs, close captioning and video description
expenses, graphics, music, editing and color correction expenses,
travel and hotel expenses for Connie, David, and our DP, production
fees, costs to manufacture (master and replicate) the DVDs, costs to
distribute the Series on public television, including HD broadcast
mastering and quality verification costs, satellite uplink fees and
station relations campaign and carriage tracking fees.
Viewer Comments
ARTnews wrote that David has the “enthusiasm and breadth of knowledge
of BBC host Jacob Bronowski and the geniality of late Australian
wildlife expert Steve Irwin,” and his engaging and entertaining manner
makes the artists and their paintings come alive. Here are some of our
viewers’ comments: “The best art series I have seen on television!
Brilliant!”; “Informative, inspirational and smart series. When will it
be back on television?”; “Simply fantastic!”; “Beautifully orchestrated
- never had Impressionism fully explained before;” “I love the show -
it combines art history and techniques in different genres and is
filled with insight;” and “We were AMAZED at his ability to present, in
a straightforward, intelligent, and unpretentious fashion, the spirit
of his subject -- and to watch him create at the same time. Incredible
talent.”
Season One of PBS series Landscapes
through Time
The First Season of Landscapes Through Time with 13 half-hour programs
was broadcast on PBS from 2008-2011, and is being broadcast on public
television for another three-year term beginning June, 2013.
Landscapes Through Time received a national Emmy® Award as well as a
second national Emmy® nomination. It was also awarded a CINE Golden
Eagle Award for Excellence in Television Production and seven Telly
Awards. We have also produced several other DVD series about art and
painting, Painting Landscapes with David Dunlop and Elements of
Landscape Painting. (You can view short previews of Season One on our
website here.)
Museum and Educational Outreach Programs
We are currently speaking with several
educational institutions about using our series in their arts education
programs, and with several museums to use our footage as small movies
to support their collections. We'll give you more information
when these programs are farther along.
Thank You for Joining the Adventure!
If you want to learn more about art and painting,
we hope that you will help us create Season Two of Landscapes through
Time. Thank you!
For
More Information:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/308907317/were-back-season-2-of-art-series-landscapes-throug
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