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Shows techniques involved in the production of tempera paintings on panel and oil paintings on canvas. Includes examples of tempera and oil paintings from the collections of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow,...
The landscape painter David Graham discusses his attitude to nature, the spontaneous use of oil paint, and the development and procedure of a picture. Shows his exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London,...
Six half-hour programmes in which National Gallery director Neil MacGregor explores the relationship between painters and their materials: 1) Pictures as Things: Change and Decay: how paintings were made and...
The early drawings and oil paintings of Georges Seurat (1859-1891) explored the qualities of materials and light. From his studies of colour and perception he developed his theory of divisionism and the...
Sir Lawrence Gowing explores the works of three great painters (in three separate programmes), discussing the historical and social backgrounds against which the artists worked and concentrating on a small...
About the work of the exiled Guatemalan artist, whose miniaturised oil paintings are influenced by the events and characters of his country.
This film looks at the career of artist Gillian Ayres covering her abstract paintings of the 1950s, and her involvement in the ‘Situation’ exhibitions of the 60s, which showed large works combining oil...
Critic John Berger explores the ways in which we look at pictures, with emphasis on the way traditional European oil painting has looked at women and possessions. He shows that aspects of this tradition are...
Shows Royal Academician Fred Cuming at work sketching and painting in Rye harbour and on Camber Sands along the south coast of Englan. Then, working from this material, he produces several oil paintings in...
Four half-hour programmes in which National Gallery director Neil MacGregor takes a particular painting and through it explores the ideas and beliefs shared by Europeans at the period in which it was made....
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