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Bauhaus 100

Art / 2 minutes of reading / August 26, 2019 / By HDclump

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, and the teachers and students he gathered to form this influential school. Traumatised by his experiences during the Great War, and determined that technology should never again be used for destruction, Gropius decided to reinvent the way art and design were taught. At the Bauhaus, all the disciplines would come together to create the […]

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Civilisation episode 8 – The Light of Experience

Art, History / 2 minutes of reading / August 21, 2019 / By HDclump

Civilisation episode 8 – The Light of Experience: Kenneth Clark’s story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy. Civilisation episode 8 – The Light of Experience Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most

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Civilisation episode 7 – Grandeur and Obedience

Art, History / 2 minutes of reading / August 20, 2019 / By HDclump

Civilisation episode 7 – Grandeur and Obedience: Sir Kenneth Clark presents one of the classic episodes of his history of the civilised culture of the western world. He examines the Catholic world in the 16th Century, especially the city of Rome which blossomed architecturally and sculpturally during the Counter Reformation under the hands of the baroque artist Bernini. This programme features the celebrated and stunning tracking shot through Raphael’s Loggia. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy. Civilisation episode 7 – Grandeur and Obedience The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic

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Civilisation episode 5 – The Hero as Artist

Art, History / 2 minutes of reading / August 18, 2019 / By HDclump

Civilisation episode 5 – The Hero as Artist: Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Papal Rome in the early 16th Century. Three great artists, Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci are the chief protagonists in Clark’s ‘Individuals of Genius’ theme. It takes him through the gardens and courtyards of the Vatican to the rooms decorated for the Pope by Raphael, and to the Sistine Chapel. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy. Civilisation episode 5 – The Hero as Artist The history of the

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Civilisation episode 4 – Man – The Measure of all Things

Art, History / 2 minutes of reading / August 17, 2019 / By HDclump

Civilisation episode 4 – Man – The Measure of all Things: Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man. Clark visits Florence, where the resurrection of a classical past first gave a new impetus to European thought, and then journeys to the palaces of Urbino and Mantua, where the Renaissance manifested itself in glorious architecture. He talks of Humanism and of perspective, of Donatello, Botticelli and Van Eyck. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy. Civilisation episode 4 – Man – The Measure of all

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Civilisation episode 3 – Romance and Reality

Art, History / 2 minutes of reading / August 16, 2019 / By HDclump

Civilisation episode 3 – Romance and Reality: Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to the cathedral at Pisa. He explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy, looking at the work of Giotto and Dante among other artists. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy. Civilisation episode 3 – Romance and Reality Giotto di Bondone known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto’s contemporary, the banker

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Civilisation episode 2 – The Great Thaw

Art, History / 2 minutes of reading / August 15, 2019 / By HDclump

Civilisation episode 2 – The Great Thaw: Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th Century from its first manifestations in the Cluny Abbey, to the Basilica of St Denis and finally to its high point, the building of Chartres Cathedral. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy. Civilisation episode 2 – The Great Thaw Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France, about 80 km southwest of Paris and is the seat of the Diocese

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Civilisation episode 1 – The Skin of Our Teeth

History, Art / 2 minutes of reading / August 14, 2019 / By HDclump

Civilisation episode 1 – The Skin of Our Teeth: Sir Kenneth Clark begins his classic 1969 series on the history of civilisation with the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe, in the tenth century after the fall of Rome to barbarism. He travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides examining aqueducts, cathedrals, the lives of the Vikings and of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy. Civilisation episode 1 – The Skin of Our Teeth Charlemagne or Charles the Great (2 April 742 –

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Renaissance Revolution episode 3 – Piero Della Francesca – Baptism of Christ

Art / 2 minutes of reading / July 25, 2019 / By HDclump

Renaissance Revolution episode 3 – Piero Della Francesca – Baptism of Christ: Matthew Collings concludes the series by looking at the invention of Renaissance painting. The Baptism of Christ by Italian master Piero Della Francesca showed the household names of the High Renaissance how to use the big new trick of Renaissance painting – illusionism and perspective. Without him their achievements would have been impossible, but change came so rapidly in the Renaissance that the qualities that made Piero famous in his own time quickly went out of fashion. The Baptism was bought for the National Gallery in

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Renaissance Revolution episode 2 – Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights

Art / 2 minutes of reading / July 24, 2019 / By HDclump

In Renaissance Revolution episode 2, artist and writer Matthew Collings steps into the mysterious invented world of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, painted c.1505. This imposing work, full of strange and fantastical details, contains one of the most famous images in all of art: a man with a tree for a body, who gazes out at us from the section of the painting representing hell. The tree-man’s face is generally thought to be the artist’s self-portrait but, like almost everything else about Hieronymus Bosch – including the meaning of this, his most famous painting –

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Renaissance Revolution episode 1 – The Madonna of the Meadow

Art / 3 minutes of reading / July 22, 2019 / By HDclump

Renaissance Revolution episode 1: the new series on Renaissance painting, written and presented by Matthew Collings, begins with an artistic investigation into one of the most radiant and beautiful images in all of art history, The Madonna of the Meadow, painted in 1505 by Raphael. Renaissance art has become part of the 21st-century heritage industry but when Raphael was alive, it was a startling new form of visual expression, and Raphael’s vibrant ‘realism’ was striking and fresh. It became the model for western art for the next 400 years, right up until the birth of Modernism. Renaissance

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The Art on Your Wall

Art / 2 minutes of reading / July 10, 2019 / By HDclump

The Art on Your Wall: Sue Perkins charts the changes in British taste towards domestic art by delving into the stories of contemporary bestsellers, charting the history of post-war prints and aiming to see first hand what the average British person displays above their mantelpiece. Half of British living rooms have art on their wall bought from high street stores, and many of the British artists who created them are among the country’s most successful – but we’ve never heard of them. Sue also tracks down the creators of recent history’s most popular prints to discover their opinions

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