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Follows the evolution of the self-portrait artist from being the invisible figure behind the canvas to the actual subject of the painting. Makes unexpected connections between old and new, describes some...
Series examining the influences of colour on our lives.
Van Gogh has arrived at Auvers-sur-Oise to come under the care of Dr. Gachet for his nervous agitation. Soon after the arrival of Vincent’s brother Théo and his wife, plein air portraiture and...
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....
A series of video programmes on the manufacture of components. The material shows actual (not idealised) practice, giving a realistic impression of both the process and industry. The series assumes no prior...
An outstanding portrait painter, the Dutch artist Frans Hals (1581-1666) remains a mysterious personality. This film reconstructs his life and times through attention to the clues in his paintings, which...
Although portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) now seem to embody the 18th-century golden age of the English aristocracy, the highly gifted and ambitious Reynolds aimed far beyond society portraiture....
Shows how to make a strainer/stretcher - how to choose the timber, measure up, cut the mitred joints, how to glue and pin corner joints, how to lap the bracing centre pieces and how to cut the joints....
Describes how the establishment, and the functioning of academies of painting and the exhibitions which they sponsored, influenced developments in style and technique and modified patterns of patronage.
Traces briefly the history of the development of artists’ paints, and the ‘colourmen’ who manufacture them. The role of Windsor & Newton within this tradition is explained, particularly their part in...
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