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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...
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...
Profiles British painter John Constable and describes how painters such as Thomas Gainsborough, Claude Lorrain and Peter Paul Rubens influenced his depiction of landscapes. Traces the development of...
Shows some of the basic processes used in cleaning and restoring oil paintings on canvas. About the methods of Harry Woolford, who recently retired from the post of chief restorer to the National Galleries...
Renaissance artists made portraits for many of the same reasons that we do today: to mark important moments in individual lives, in memory of those who are no longer with us, or to promote a public...
BFI synopsis: The film shows the new approaches to teaching in primary and secondary schools. Opening shot of a small girl conducting her classmates in singing, marching and percussion. At a nursery school,...
Series examining how ppinters paint. Contemporary artists share their secrets and skills and reveal how they were influenced by the masters. Each programme follows a work from start to finish. 1: London...
NoS synopsis: Animation by Joe Noble. L/S of the animator standing at an easel painting a cartoon. He holds his head as if looking for inspiration. Sausage (a dog) says to Sammy in a speech bubble: "The...
A compilation of films by American animator Caroline Leaf. 1: (1974, 8 min). Based on an Inuit story, illustrates the folly of marrying a creature who is not of one’s own kind. Leaf worked with Inuit crew...
A compilation of short British avant-garde films from the 1930s - a decade marked by both the birth of British realism, and a surrealist influence from Europe.
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