CAMERA THREE PRESENTS: RUFINO TAMAYO: THE SOURCES OF HIS ART (TV)
Summary
One in this series of programs on the performing and visual arts. Host James MacAndrew presents a film by Gary Conklin which profiles Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. The film consists of an interview with Tamayo; poetry and commentary written by Octavio Paz, which is read by John Huston; and scenes of Tamayo in his studio. In addition, scenes of open-air markets, plazas, deserts, and residential areas in Mexico are interspersed throughout the program. Tamayo refers to art as an international language in which ethnic accents can be found, and as he works on one of his paintings, he comments on the colors he uses in his artworks. The colors that Tamayo commonly sees in Mexico's scenery are reflected in his work. Tamayo also claims that pre-Colombian art has a particularly strong influence on the shapes and proportions found in his paintings, and images of pre-Hispanic ruins and sculptures are shown. Then poetry and commentary written by Paz follow, accompanied by scenes of Mexico's landscape. No commercials.
(This series also aired locally on WCBS-TV in New York from 1953 to 1956 and on PBS from 1979 to 1980.)
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 9, 1973 11:00 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:07
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T84:0089
- GENRE: Arts documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Art, Mexican
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1956-1979
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- For "Camera Three":
- Merrill Brockway … Producer, Director
- Stephan Chodorov … Writer
- James MacAndrew … Host
- For "Rufino Tamayo: The Sources of His Art":
- Gary Conklin … Film by
- Octavio Paz … Poem by, Guest
- Carlos Chavez … Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach … Composer
- John Huston … Narrator
- Rufino Tamayo … Guest