Who is on the spot is more a what: a new modern art movement in Montréal and those behind it. Narrator
Bruce Ruddick visits the Place des Arts, a new artists cooperative studio that was set-up in an abandoned building by one in the movement,
Robert Roussell. It is meant to assist any artist who needs a space to create or in some cases live, the primary main floor studio dedicated primarily to wood sculpting. He then visits with artist
Jean-Paul Mousseau in his east end home. While it not the most lavish by socioeconomic standards, they talk among other things it being a space that is designed more to be one that allows him to create. And he then moves to l'Échouerie, a café that is an artists' hangout, he wanting to speak to the artists in attendance for this day's art showing in the café basement, which centers on automatism, about art in general and the feeling behind creating abstract art, most specifically that in the automatism movement. As an epilogue, host
Robert Anderson speaks to Dr.
Robert Hubbard, the chief curator at the National Gallery of Canada about what and who he expects to emerge from this modern art movement.
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