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Series dealing with the history of European art. 1: The religious Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries featuring Duccio, Sassetta, Pisanello and the Lorenzetti brothers. 2: a) 15th-century artists and...
Peggy Angus is a woman artist who worked early this century and who represents a missing link in art and design history. In 1921 she was awarded a charity scholarship to the Royal College of Art where she...
Discusses Jan Vermeer’s painting ‘The Astronomer’ (1668) in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. Vermeer worked in private houses...
Discusses Claude Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’ in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. In his garden at Giverny, Monet created a gigantic...
David Hockney (b.1937) in an extended interview filmed at his Tate Gallery retrospective in 1988, discusses his career and provides insights into some of his key works and the contemporary art scene.
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...
Profiles French artist Edgar Degas and presents many examples of his work including paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs. Uses excerpts from his writings, letters and sonnets to explore the...
Looks at the group of artists which came to live in the well-to-do suburb of Holland Park in West London during the 19th century. They built themselves fashionable and expensive studio houses in keeping with...
The landscapes of the Australian painter Arthur Boyd (b.1920) have a rough sensuality that is raw and pure as the primeval wilderness he depicts. This film shows the artist at work and reflects on his...
Patrick Heron (b.1920) is among the most famous of the St Ives school of painters. Shot in St Ives, Cornwall, and at his 1985 London retrospective at London’s Barbican Gallery, this film shows the artist...
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