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The Art Mysteries episode 4

Art / 3 minutes of reading / December 20, 2021 / By HDclump

The Art Mysteries episode 4: The Card Players is one of Cezanne’s best-known pictures, but it is also one of his most mysterious. Why did the so-called father of modern art paint two old men hunched over a game of cards? What is the picture trying to tell us? By exploring Cezanne’s puzzling religious beliefs and his passion for Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of Provence, Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the surprising secrets of a haunting masterpiece. The Art Mysteries episode 4 Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the […]

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The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak episode 3

The Art Mysteries episode 3

Art / 3 minutes of reading / December 19, 2021 / By HDclump

The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak episode 3: The Vision After the Sermon is a painting full of symbolism and mystery. But what does Gauguin’s famous work have to do with a 17-year-old girl called Madeleine, with Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, and with sumo wrestlers? Waldemar Januszczak reveals all as he investigates Gauguin’s epic religious painting about good and evil, temptation and desire. Documentary series in which Waldemar Januszczak sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak episode 3

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The Art Mysteries episode 2

Art / 3 minutes of reading / December 16, 2021 / By HDclump

The Art Mysteries episode 2: Hanging in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Seurat’s Les Poseuses is probably his least-known painting. It is also a picture brimming with codes and hidden meanings. It shows three nudes in the artist’s studio, but included in the background is Seurat’s famous masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Why is it there? What is it trying to say? Why two pictures at once? Waldemar Januszczak investigates. The Art Mysteries episode 2 Georges Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for

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The Art Mysteries episode 1

Art / 3 minutes of reading / December 14, 2021 / By HDclump

The Art Mysteries episode 1: Painted soon after he cut off his ear with a razor, Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is one of his most celebrated works. But how much do we really know about it? In a far-ranging investigation, Waldemar Januszczak delves into the clues hidden in the painting. The result is a tale of geishas, brothels, bullfights, love affairs, suffering and a fiery relationship with Gauguin. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear has a powerful secret message, if you know what to look for. The Art Mysteries episode 1 Vincent Willem van Gogh was

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The Lost Genius of British Art – William Dobson

Art / 3 minutes of reading / June 9, 2020 / By HDclump

The Lost Genius of British Art – William Dobson: In this documentary, Januszczak argues that the little known 17th-century portrait painter William Dobson was the first English painter of genius. Has one of Britain’s greatest artists been unfairly forgotten? Waldemar Januszczak thinks so. Alternative video sever Dobson’s life and times are embedded in one of the most turbulent and significant epochs of British history – the English Civil War. As official court painter to Charles I, the tragic British king later beheaded by Parliament, Dobson had a ringside seat to an period of intense drama and

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Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 3

Art / 3 minutes of reading / April 10, 2020 / By HDclump

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 3: This episode looks at America’s most controversial cultural territory – the interstitial America of small towns and trailer parks. As his road trip takes him from Iowa to Tennessee, Waldemar Januszczak discovers how this much maligned territory had an immensely beneficial impact on American art. From the small town brilliance of Grant Wood, to the small town alienation of Edward Hopper, to the spooky Dust Bowl symbolism of Alexandre Hogue, interstitial America inspired much that was great. The film culminates in the brilliant assemblages of David

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Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 2

Art / 3 minutes of reading / April 9, 2020 / By HDclump

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 2: This episode is set in the American metropolis – the soaring new cities of the East Coast with their futuristic skylines and lofty skyscrapers. But instead of looking up at the futuristic towers, Waldemar Januszczak explores the squalid boxing rings painted by George Bellows, Reginald Mash’s decadent awaydays on Coney Island and the crazy escape into theosophy and abstraction mounted by Thomas Wilfred. The film culminates in the harsh immigrant experience of Ellis Island and the profound impact that rootlessness had on the art of Mark

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