{"id":6873,"date":"2020-01-16T03:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T03:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2020-01-16T04:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:04:16","slug":"an-armenian-odyssey-national-gallery-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=6873","title":{"rendered":"An Armenian Odyssey: The Color of Pomegranates preceded by Kiev Frescoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In collaboration with the Freer Gallery of Art, Post-Classical  Ensemble, the Embassy of Armenia, and the National Cinema Center of  Armenia, this cycle of short and feature-length films is presented as  part of a celebration of Armenian music, art, and history occurring  simultaneously at several Washington institutions. Special thanks to the  Embassy of Armenia and Post-Classical Ensemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/content\/ngaweb\/calendar\/film-programs\/armenian-odyssey\/color-pomegranates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">The Color of Pomegranates preceded by Kiev Frescoes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February 29, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.<br> Freer Gallery of Art<br>National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preceding the feature is the American premiere of a restored short film by Parajanov, <em>Kiev Frescoes<\/em>, composed of outtakes from an uncompleted film project. (Sergei Parajanov, 1966, 13 minutes)<br> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Color of Pomegranates<\/em> is Sergei Parajanov\u2019s masterpiece, a  dreamlike kinetic pictograph based on the life and writings of the  eighteenth-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat Nova. Mingling  tableaux, ritual, metaphor, music, and poetry, the film attempts to  recount the poet\u2019s inner life while following his story from childhood  through death, incorporating a tradition of Armenian miniature painting  in the telling. The powerful imagery and expressive music aroused  controversy when the film was first released in the USSR. (Sergei  Parajanov, 1969, subtitles, 75 minutes)<em> Commentary by Levon Abrahamyan, Joseph Horowitz, Peter Rollberg, and Daniel Bird.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/\ufeffhttps:\/\/www.nga.gov\/calendar\/film-programs\/armenian-odyssey.html \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/calendar\/film-programs\/armenian-odyssey.html  (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/calendar\/film-programs\/armenian-odyssey.html <\/a><\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the Freer Gallery of Art, Post-Classical Ensemble, the Embassy of Armenia, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6886,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}