Summary: It was in the Bavarian mountains that much of Germany's sense of nationhood and identity was forged. Caspar David Friedrich became the Romantic movement's first great painter, creating perhaps its defining image in Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. More explicitly nationalistic was the Nazarene Brotherhood, a group of young artists, including Johann Friedrich Overbeck and Philipp Veit, who lived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: It's the revenge of power on those that dare to challenge it. So begins this program on Goya's haunting painting of defiance and despair, The Third of May 1808. The video keenly conveys the circumstances of the Spanish uprising against the French, relates Goya's deafness to his darkening artistic vision, examines Goya's painting technique, analyzes The Third of May's symbolism, illustrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Controversial is probably not the first word to come to mind when viewing Whistler's Mother, and yet as a harbinger of modernity and even abstraction in art, it was. To fully tell the story of the painting Whistler called Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, this program provides a broad view of the artist and his times. Topics include Whistler's unconventional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: If the French Revolution had an official painter, it was Jacques-Louis David-although "official propagandist" is a much more accurate term. This program follows David's career from his early ambitions as a Prix de Rome scholar to the actions that defined him, morally and artistically, during the reigns of Robespierre and Napoleon. With The Death of Marat as its centerpiece, the program studies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007