On Pictures and Paintings

Synopsis: Charles Harrison at the Tate Gallery explores the theme of ‘pictures and paintings’, discussing different ways of thinking about how works of art represent and, in that sense, have meaning. We tend to approach paintings in the expectation of their being pictures even though this is not always justified (Kandinski). Some works represent without being pictures at all (abstracts - Poliakoff). What is it about a painting that makes it ‘modern’? Starts with Cezanne and moves through Braque, Grosz, Dali, Miro, Jack Smith and Leger, showing how the illusionistic devices of painting become uncoupled from those kinds of rational compositional themes within which they had previously been controlled.
Series: Modern Art: Practices and Debates, Course A316
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1993
Availability: Off-air recording license
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Subjects: Art
Keywords: art - modern art; paintings

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