The Joy of Painting episode 3 – Mountain by the Sea: American painter Bob Ross takes on one of his greatest challenges as he paints majestic mountains looming over a colourful seascape in only half an hour. American painter Bob Ross offers soothing words of encouragement to viewers and painting hobbyists in an enormously popular series that has […]
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The Joy of Painting episode 2 – Nature’s Paradise: In this programme, Bob creates a fantastic American south western mountain scene, with spectacular red peaks looming over a lazy, tree-lined stream. American painter Bob Ross offers soothing words of encouragement to viewers and painting hobbyists in an enormously popular series that has captivated audiences worldwide since 1982. Ross
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The Joy of Painting episode 1 – Mountain Path: Watch American painter Bob Ross as he creates a beautiful scene of mountains, evergreens, paths and bushes in just half an hour. American painter Bob Ross offers soothing words of encouragement to viewers and painting hobbyists in an enormously popular series that has captivated audiences worldwide since 1982. Ross
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Looking for Rembrandt episode 3: Desperate for money, Rembrandt takes on commissions that even his pupils have passed by, pupils who are now getting the grand offers that once came through Rembrandt’s door. Bankruptcy proceedings hound him for years and, although Rembrandt tries various – sometimes fraudulent – ways to divert some money back into his own pocket,
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Looking for Rembrandt episode 2: As Rembrandt paints his most iconic work, The Night Watch, his wife Saskia lies dying. Her death begins a ten-year decline in Rembrandt’s output as he pours himself into etching instead. Many etchings are erotically charged, perhaps a result of an affair he has begun with his infant son’s nursemaid. However, that relationship
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Looking for Rembrandt episode 1 : Rembrandt’s art is much loved and admired, but his remarkable life is less well-known. 350 years after his death, his surprising story told from an unusual perspective – his own. Rembrandt arrives in Amsterdam ‘like a thunderclap’ and his star rises as he is courted by the city’s wealthy elite. But he
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Art of Scandinavia episode 3 – Democratic by Design: In the final instalment of Andrew Graham-Dixon’s windswept journey through the art of the Norselands. We arrive in Sweden – home of Ikea and a tradition of brilliant furniture design stretching back to the early years of the 20th century. Sweden has made its modern democratic mission one of
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Art of Scandinavia episode 2 – Once Upon a Time in Denmark: In episode two of Andrew Graham-Dixon‘s epic journey through Scandinavian art and landscape. Denmark emerges from modest beginnings to become one of the greatest powers and arbiters of taste in northern Europe – a story of incredible transformation befitting the homeland of the great fairy-tale spinner
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Art of Scandinavia episode 1 – Dark Night of the Soul: Scandinavia – a land of extremes, on the edge of Europe. Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the extraordinary art to come out of the dark Norwegian soul, most famous for producing The Scream by Edvard Munch. Art of Scandinavia episode 1 – Dark Night of the Soul
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Picasso’s Last Stand: documentary revealing the untold story of the last decade of the great artist’s life, through the testimony of family and close friends – many of them the people he allowed into his private world in the 1960s. As his health declined in these final years, Picasso faced damaging criticism of his work and intimate revelations about his
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The Taking of Christ: The extraordinary story of one of world’s great, lost masterpieces: Caravaggio‘s “The Taking of Christ”. This film traces the painting’s journey from its birth in Rome in 1602 to its amazing re-discovery in 1990. “The Taking of Christ” by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio today holds pride of place in the National Gallery of Ireland
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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