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200650 minTerminée

Simon Schama's Power of Art

Chaîne:BBC Two

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S01E08 - "Rothko"

Diffusé le Dec 8, 2006, 9:00 PM

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Description

Scholar and author Simon Schama profiles eight artistic mavericks -- Van Gogh, Picasso, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner and Rothko -- in this limited series that delves into the creative process that produced cutting-edge masterpieces that changed how the world looks at art.

Détails

Statut
Terminée
Langue
English
Durée
50 min
Première diffusion
October 20, 2006
Terminée
December 8, 2006
Programmation
Friday à 21:00

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Épisodes (1 Saison · 8 Épisodes)

Caravaggio

Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight masterpieces. How Caravaggio changed the way artists portrayed religious icons.

Oct 20, 2006

50 min

Bernini

Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight masterpieces. He looks at how Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Ecstasy of St Thereza shows a nun in the state of orgasmic bliss and wonders how it was ever allowed.

Oct 27, 2006

50 min

Rembrandt

Why did one of the world's greatest artists cut up his own masterpiece, The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis? Simon Schama tells the story of the rise and fall of Rembrandt van Rijn in glittering 17th-century Amsterdam.

Nov 3, 2006

50 min

David

Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of drama in the making of eight great works of art. He looks at Jacques Louis David's revolutionary painting Death of Marat.

Nov 10, 2006

50 min

Turner

In this revealing blend of history and art, Simon Schama tells the extraordinary story of how Britain's greatest painter, JMW Turner, created one of his most powerful paintings, The Slave Ship.

Nov 17, 2006

50 min

Van Gogh

In 1890, Vincent van Gogh painted his great masterpiece Wheatfield with Crows, but a few weeks later, he killed himself. Was the painting a cry of anguish that he would never realise his dream of creating an art revolution, or was it a shout of triumph that this kind of painting would be the new art for the people?

Nov 24, 2006

50 min

Picasso

Simon Schama tells the story of Picasso's epic Guernica, looking at both the Nazi bombing massacre that inspired the painting and Picasso's extraordinary artistic response.The film combines Schama's trademark sassy storytelling with dramatisation to ask what art can do in the face of atrocity.

Dec 1, 2006

50 min

Rothko

Mark Rothko believed that tradition was all used up, and that figurative art no longer had what it took to connect us, viscerally, to the human tragedy. Only a completely new visual language of strong feeling could wake us from moral stupor. So he set himself - and New York - a test.

Dec 8, 2006

50 min

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