(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Degas: Passion for Perfection will kick off the new season of the popular Exhibition on Film series at Asbury Park’s independent movie theater, The ShowRoom Cinema. It will screen twice, once on Sunday, April 14th at 12:30pm and again on Monday, April 15th at 7:30pm. Exhibition on Screen is a pioneering series of films about exhibitions, galleries and artists, and has brought many an art appreciator into the downtown for these exquisitely produced studies of the artist and his work.

Directed by David Bickerstaff, the film journeys from a superb exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, where the UK’s most extensive Degas collection is held, to Paris and Italy, where Degas spent his formative years and taught himself to paint.

Degas: Passion for Perfection offers a unique insight into Degas’ personal and creative life, looking at his relationship with the impressionist movement, fascination with dance, and struggle with his eyesight, which in time would prevent him making art altogether. The film uncovers the fascinating story of his obsessive pursuit for perfection both through experimentation with new techniques and the study of past masters, including Italian Renaissance artists and near-contemporaries such as Ingres and Delacroix. French historian Daniel Halévy describes the artist as: “Always working, searching, almost always dissatisfied, he kept the greater part his art hidden in boxes out of which he scarcely ever took anything...except what he was forced to sell to enable him to live.”

Upcoming films in this series include Young Picasso, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh and Japan.

The ShowRoom Cinema is located at 707 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, New Jersey.