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Focuses on the period 1796-1828, but begins by taking a brief look back on Goya’s earlier career before exploring his drawings and their context. Examines technique, style and subject matter.
Chinese silk-stringed zithers and folk dances, including a performance of a Peking Opera. Also shows village life, the Chinese type of Buddhist prayers, and temple architecture, painting and calligraphy.
Describes the restoration of a large rock painting in Central Australia, with associated acts and dances. The ritual features the phallic ‘act’ of a legendary sexual hero.
Animated film showing how ‘progress’ comes to rural England. Constable’s painting of Willie Lot’s cottage is gradually turned into a super-motorway.
American figurative painter John Currin presents his views on figurative painting, representation and masculine identity.
Places in context the portraits of the Emperor Augustus that have survived on coins and as busts. Discusses the development of portraiture from the idealised representations of Alexander the Great through to...
Follows two unorthodox Russian artists, from their first meeting in a Mosecow morgue to the painting of their early materpiece, ‘Biography of Our Contemporary’, to their arrival in New York.
Documentary filmed in the National Gallery in London. The sequences of the film show the public in various galleries; the education programmes, and the scholars, scientists and curators, studying, restoring...
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...
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