Bosch's hometown in the Netherlands has no paintings by the painter, yet for the major "Visions of Genius" exhibition held on the anniversary of his death in 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum has managed to bring together almost all of Bosch's paintings and drawings. "Visions of Genius" was the most ambitious exhibition ever dedicated to the Dutch painter. This documentary will plunge you into the strange, visionary world of Hieronymus Bosch.
This gallery was built in the 16th century as the seat for Florence’s new administrative offices (uffizi), and opened to the public as the Uffizi Gallery in the 18th century. Today it still offers the world’s most beautiful collection of Italian Renaissance art. How could anyone remain insensitive to the sensual beauty of “The Birth of Venus” by Botticelli, “The Venus of Urbino” by Titian, or Correggio’s “Danae”? Enjoy your visit!
Find a selection of commented works by the artist Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824). We find numerous works of the artist with many precise details.
Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques
In 64 episodes, fun and educational, you will know how to draw an airplane, a fireman, a haunted mansion, a soccer player, a sunset, a lion, the Eiffel Tower, seashells, a fairy... Our master draftsman Gia-Haï Phan will show you the basics of a successful drawing: proportions, perspectives, values, contrasts, volumes, blending, everything is covered.
"All is but impression. The abundance of impressions that gush forth from lyric drama must still be supplemented by the impression of abundance that gushes forth from architecture." C. Garnier The edifice designed by Charles Garnier is considered one of the jewels of 19th-century architecture. The variety and richness of the materials used earned it unprecedented enthusiasm from the moment it was inaugurated.
Start by gathering several fascinating facts about Van Gogh’s life, which will then lead you to ask questions that uncover mysteries: What aspects of his life influenced his unique body of work—which is now worth hundreds of millions on the art market—and what ultimately drove him to commit an act of desperation? Discover Vincent van Gogh’s early years. From learning French and English to his very first art class, Brabant and its landscapes left an indelible mark on the young Vincent. Discover how Van Gogh made a sudden shift in his path, moving from the ministry and missionary work to a life devoted to art, aided in this by two influential men in his family. You’ll also begin to understand how his difficulties with his parents and scandals involving women would affect him. What is it about the modest Protestant community in Nuenen that inspired Van Gogh to find his artistic voice, and why did he leave behind his extensive body of work when he moved away? This lecture explores how the
In many ways, it is in Antwerp that Vincent begins the remarkable evolution that will ultimately make him one of the most important painters in modern art. Explore his journey at the Antwerp Academy, where he slowly sheds the darkness of Hague and begins to play with light and color. Did you know how much the Impressionist movement in Paris depended on Vincent’s brother, Theo? Find out the truth behind Theo’s enormous influence in promoting and establishing the movement and bringing together the Impressionist artists of the day, with scenes from Jean-Pierre Isbouts’ television drama Manet in Love. What would you do if a difficult relative dropped in without warning and announced they would be living with you from now on? Learn how Theo manages the situation when Vincent arrives in Paris, and revel in the way that Vincent inhales the wonderful new movements of Montmartre. By the 1880s, the Impressionists have slowly begun to drift apart after the deaths of Frédéric Bazille and Édouard
Perhaps the most well-known fact about Vincent’s troubled life is that he cut his ear. Dive into the horrifying story of what it is that inspires him to do something so drastic, and how the people around him respond to the crisis—culminating in the loss of his beloved Yellow House. Confined to an asylum, Van Goh enters a dark period of illness—yet it is out of this place that he draws inspiration to create his best-known masterpiece, The Starry Night. Listen as Professor Isbouts describes his research on what diagnoses were likely behind Vincent’s “insanity.” While Vincent is sequestered away at the asylum at Saint-Remy, the art world is moving on. Amazingly, Vincent is gaining growing recognition among art critics, with works shown at an annual exhibition in Brussels. But is Paris ready for him when he returns to meet Theo and Johanna’s newborn baby? In this lovely village along the Oise River, Vincent creates what is arguably his most developed and integrated work, including two por
William Blake (1757-1827) developed his own complex and personal mythology. He was a pre-romantic British painter, engraver and poet.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres is best known as the painter of the odalisques. Obsessed with the ideal of beauty, he glorified the female form, with its porcelain whiteness and its curves… Ingres struck a path between Classicism and the influence of the Orient. You will see the famous women bathers in “The Turkish Bath” and also some of his historic paintings such as “Oedipus and the Sphinx” and, of course, his portraits, with the famous “Monsieur Bertin”. Enjoy your visit!
Born in 1866 in Moscow, Wassily Kandinsky is considered as one of the most important 20th century artists. He was notably the founder of abstract art. Having left Russia for Germany where he started teaching at the Bauhaus in 1922, he then settled in France in 1933 and left behind him a particularly abundant work. You will rediscover here his most emblematic creations, essentially drawn from the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Enjoy your visit!
My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!
In the second half of the 19th century, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) showed great originality in his painting of historic scenes and portraiture of well-known figures, such as the novelist Zola and the poet Mallarmé. Even if we cannot call him the first Impressionist, his leading role in the history of modern art must be emphasised. The scandals in 1863 caused by “The Luncheon on the Grass” or “Olympia” both exposed at the Orsay Museum effectively mark the beginning of modern painting. Enjoy your visit!
Painted in 1911, Pablo Picasso’s "La Coiffeuse" is an iconic work of Cubism. The painting was last seen in 1998, following a loan for an exhibition in Munich. On its return to Paris, it was stored in the Centre Pompidou’s storerooms… until the day it was discovered to be missing, in 2001. Had it been stolen from the storerooms? Sixteen years after the theft, in 2014, a ship docked at the port of Newark, in New Jersey, USA. The artwork was on board…
In 2010, five masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani and Léger went missing. A year into the investigation, the police arrested the burglar, Vrejan Tomic. A repeat offender, with 11 art thefts to his name, he usually works to order. In this case, the client was Jean-Michel Corvez. Wrapped in bin bags, these unsellable works were found at the home of a third man, Yonathan Birn. How? Why?
Painted by the Van Eyck brothers, ‘The Adoration of the Mystical Lamb’ or ‘The Ghent Altarpiece’ is regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of the Flemish Primitives. Installed in St Bavon’s Cathedral in Ghent as early as 1432, it escaped theft and looting on several occasions, However, on the night of 10–11 April 1934, two panels were stolen, one of which – ‘The Just Judges’ – has never been recovered to this day, because the bishop refused to pay the ransom demanded…
On the night of 17–18 October 1984, three criminals broke into the municipal museum in Semur-en-Auxois, which was not fitted with an alarm system. The joint investigation by the French and Japanese police revealed links between the Parisian underworld and the Japanese Yakuza mafia. Indeed, Shinchi Fujikuma, a Japanese gangster, had met two members of the Aubervilliers gang, Philippe-Emile Jamin and Youssef Khimoun, whilst serving time in a French prison. In 1987, the French managed to return from Japan with four of the five stolen paintings. The last one, *The Portrait of Mrs Baudot*, remained with its new owner, in accordance with the principle of ‘good faith’ guaranteed by Japanese law.
On the evening of 13 July 1999, a day of celebrations in France, Rembrandt’s "The Boy with a Soap Bubble" disappeared from the Draguignan Municipal Museum. Patrick Vialaneix recounts how he fell in love with this painting at the age of 13. Thirteen years later, the painting continued to haunt him, and he decided to steal it so that he could always have it close to him and talk to it. He therefore hid in a cupboard in the museum, waiting for nightfall to make off with it. He turned himself in to the police in 2014.
Vandalised, stolen, cut into pieces, melted down and resold for a few thousand euros, even though they are worth millions: sculptures. On the night of 30–31 March 1999, whilst this park in the 6th arrondissement was closed to the public, individuals stole the sculpture of Picasso’s former muse and lover, Dora Maar: ‘Head of a Woman’, an 80-centimetre-tall bronze weighing 80 kilos. Two years later, in a town hall in the Paris suburbs, it stood proudly on the staircase: ‘Do you realise you’ve got a Picasso in your building?’ exclaimed an antique dealer who had come to visit the château. Indeed, the town hall had found a ‘large stone’ buried on a plot of land, had it cleaned, thought it was beautiful and displayed it in their château, unaware that it was a sculpture by Picasso…
Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.
Sisley was a British Impressionist painter, closely associated with Renoir and Monet. On 20 June 1978, at 8.30 pm, a truck was stolen. Inside were around ten masterpieces worth 1.5 billion francs. The transport company responsible for returning the works following a loan had made no security arrangements. On 21 September 1998, ‘The Avenue of Poplars’ was stolen once again. This time, it was the curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice, Jean Fornéris, who staged his own abduction! Finally, on Sunday 5 August 2007, five masked and armed men held up staff at the Nice museum to steal four paintings, including the Sisley. It was not until 2008, with the help of the FBI – which was also searching for works stolen from the Boston Museum – that the thieves were arrested.
Federico Gentili di Giuseppe was a Jewish businessman of Italian origin with a passion for art. On his death in 1940, he bequeathed a collection of 150 paintings to his two children, Marcel and Adriana, who had become naturalised French citizens. In 1941, Maître Moulin auctioned off these paintings under questionable circumstances. This marked the beginning of a legal battle waged by the Gentili di Giuseppe heirs, which was to last nearly 50 years.
Today we turn up the spice with gourmet gastronomes Tony Singh and Cyrus Todiwala. The chefs are joined by David Harper and Natasha Raskin. Setting off from Dundee they snake down the east coast of Scotland to the village of Rosewell in Midlothian for an auction. Cyrus proves to have a flair for negotiating and Tony’s not shy at naming his price. Tony discovers why one Scottish city was home to many millionaires and Cyrus finds his sea legs as he learns why Anstruther was a pivotal fishing port in the 19th century.
Rembrandt van Rijn made the painting "Jeremiah" at the age of 24. It’s an incredibly complex painting in which all his talent comes together: The enchanting effect between sketchy finish and the small detail. But also the expression of all the different materials such as velvet, metal, red coral and rock. Team member Michel van de Laar has restored Rembrandt’s work in the past and discovered that there is something special hidden in the paint: A hair by Rembrandt. Also in the reconstruction, a hair will be put back. And not just any hair: an exciting search leads to a descendant of Rembrandt.
Willy Pierre-Joseph is a professional dancer. He also organizes "training parties" at the Centquatre with his association Wynkl, where improvisation and exchange between dancers are privileged moments. The artist Noël Rasendrason likes to capture these moments that feed his imagination of movement and music. In this report, we will alternate between Willy's training party and Noël's drawing workshop.
The time of the summer, in a village named La Gacilly, the gardens, the walls of house are transformed to a photo gallery dedicated to the art. Discover the experience of La Gacilly.
In this documentary, we take you on a tour of the world's first custom motorcycle exhibit. In the new and prestigious Peterson Museum in Los Angeles, the charismatic Paul d'Orleans, motorcycle historian, consultant for Bonham's and Sotheby's, gives us a private tour of the exhibition he curated. It is an exhibition where each motorcycle is unique and considered a work of art.
Digital arts have been evolving very quickly since the 60’s. Immersive, generative, participatory, 3D, augmented reality... digital arts embrace multiple forms. This documentary will try to define its contours to answer the question : Digital arts, an evolution or a revolution ? Digital art has no boundaries and intends to play with our perception of reality. From Biennale Nemo to the School of fine arts, from galleries to museum, we have traveled the roads of reality to explore its borders. Meet the experts to discover an up-and-coming art where humans interact with technological performances. Who are these new artists? How is this art welcomed in our societies? And how does it revolutionize our approach and our perception of art?
Narrated by Gillian Anderson, this episode of Exhibition on Screen follows the footsteps of French artists such as Renoir and Monet, the American Impressionist movement forged its own path. Painted over a period of 40 years, these paintings reveal the United States both as a nation and as a creative breeding ground. The history of this movement is closely linked to the love of gardens and the desire to preserve nature in a country undergoing rapid urbanization. This enchanting journey through workshops, gardens and famous sites in the USA, UK and France is a feast for the eyes.
This famous art gallery in Berlin holds one of the world’s leading collections of European works by Old Masters. Here you can find “The Fountain of Youth” by Cranach the Elder, or the earthy “Netherlandish Proverbs” illustrated by Bruegel. Allow yourself to be tempted by the sensuality of Correggio (“Leda and the Swan”) or of Titian (“Venus with Organist”), by the poetry of “The Glass of Wine”, a genre painting by Vermeer, or by the gracious “Iris or the Dance” by Watteau. Enjoy your visit!
The Pre-Raphaelites were an artistic movement that began in England in 1848. This movement saw the paintings of 15th-century Italian artists, predecessors of Raphael, as models to be imitated.
In the aftermath of the First World War, the parish priest of Raincy decided to build a new church. But the country was ruined and the clergy's coffers were empty. One man rose to the double challenge of urgency and budget: architect Auguste Perret. At the time, building quickly and cheaply meant using reinforced concrete. An unloved and shameful material, reserved for industrial works. It took only 13 months to build this "Sainte chapelle du béton", a magnificent demonstration of the plastic and constructive qualities of this material, and a great lesson from a once-forgotten architect who revolutionized architectural language.
He is French, born in the suburbs of Paris to Beninese parents. But it is in Japan that King Houndekpinkou had a revelation and turned to an artistic career. He became a ceramist. The young artist evokes the earth within him with the magic of his hands and composes sculptural creations awakened by a vital spirit.
Römer and Römer, a couple of painters, have decided to settle in Berlin. They share their passion for the world around them and for the perpetual staging of social life. Römer and Römer, enchanters of reality, transmit the singularity of their view on the moments of encounters and celebrations of our lives.
Two luvvies from the world of stage and TV, Ruth Madoc and Su Pollard, best known for their appearances in sitcom Hi-De-Hi, are antique hunting with Phil Serrell and Raj Bisram. Setting off from the Welsh border town of Monmouth they head for auction in Congleton, Cheshire. Ruth also gets to find out about the incredible 19th century nurse – and it’s not Florence Nightingale – whilst Su visits ancient Roman town Caerleon and finds time for an amphitheatre showdown with Phil. And Su attempts to resolve an age old mystery...does Phil wear a wig?
In this episode, the two candidates of the day, Thibaud Poirier and Antoine Guillou, will have one hour to realize their photo session. They will have to take the best possible photos on the imposed theme of architecture in the 12th district of Paris, and then they will have 30 minutes to edit their photos.
François Boucq draws from morning to night in his studio, alone, as if he wanted to be more closely involved with his characters, moving from the savagery of the American West to the diplomacy of the Vatican, from the urban jungle to the news of the daily press. He has been drawing for 40 years with realism, with a precise and detailed line, a graphic finesse that makes him one of the undisputed masters of today's comics.
Take an hour break to discover the work of a Netherlands painter, Rembrandt. You will discover his labour with The night round, the return of the prodigal son, Danaé.
Take an hour break to discover the work of a British painter, William Turner. You will discover his labour with London from greenwich park, child hairdo’s pilgrimage, Snow storm.
