Dear List-Friends:
Greetings all around. A hugely popular exhibition is available for Thanksgiving - Christmas - New Year this year. It's a family-grabbing show that's great for general museums, art museums, children's museums, history museums and more:
"THE ART OF WARNER BROS. CARTOONS”
Originally mounted by The Museum of Modern Art, "The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons" is a comprehensive overview of a legendary Hollywood animation studio, the rambunctious birthplace of characters who have become part of American folklore.
As The New York Times noted in its review of the exhibition's catalog: "Life in these United States would be inconceivable without the shared referent of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, The Tasmanian Devil, Tweety, Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew and Yosemite Sam."
Since 1930, the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" of Warner Bros. have delighted audiences young and old with their wit and surprising sophistication. Such Warner phrases as "What's up, Doc?," “That’s All Folks!,” "I Taut I Taw a Putty-Tat," "Sufferin' Succotash!," and "Acme" have become part of the national vocabulary.
Indeed, the pre-eminence of the Warner studio was certified by a People Magazine poll, which named Bugs Bunny as "Best puppet or cartoon character." Just two Warner characters -- Bugs and the Road Runner -- captured 24% of the vote.
This was repeated in a TV Guide survey, which named Bugs “Greatest Cartoon Character of All Time.”
The seven-minute cartoons have earned both critical and popular acclaim as America's funniest and most culturally significant animated shorts - "the greatest sustained burst of American movie comedy," in the words of Time magazine.
Evidence of this came when Warner Bros. became the first cartoon-makers of any kind to be given a full-scale retrospective by New York's Museum of Modern Art.
The four-month exhibition proved extremely popular, generating more press response for MoMA's film department than any other show it had undertaken. Since then, the exhibition has set attendance records in museums across the United States.
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Originally shown in theaters, the Warner shorts developed new audiences with the rise of television in the 1950's. Many people under the age of 50 have seen these cartoons literally hundreds of times. Yet most of these viewers are unfamiliar with the actual artwork from which these films were created.
The educational exhibition "The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons" is a greatly expanded version of the Museum of Modern Art show, and consists of over 160 drawings, paintings, "cels" and related objects used in the making of Warner's classic cartoons, from the 1930's through 1960.
Works by all of the studio's directors -- including Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng and Bob Clampett, considered the giants of American animated filmmakers -- are richly represented.
Vivacious, colorful and highly enjoyable, the exhibition traces the development of all of Warner's cartoon stars. It also gives a step-by-step breakdown of how classic “cel” animation was produced.
Videos of the finished cartoons, plus behind-the-scenes interviews with studio artists, make the presentation vastly lively and fun.
The exhibition’s size is flexible, requiring from 2,000 to 4,000 square feet.
Thank you! For information, please reply this e-mail.
That’s All, Folks!
Don Hall
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