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New Releases: World of Masters
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower, the central cathedral of Florence, was constructed over eight centuries. Under the supervision and funding of the Wool Merchants' Guild, generations of Florentine artists and architects dedicated their lives to the project, setting in stone changes in the aesthetic ideals of the time and advances in engineering. The biography of Filippo Brunelleschi, the brilliant self-taught master who introduced the technique of one-point perspective, designed the cathedral's dome as well as machinery necessary for its construction is intertwined with the story of the cathedral and the city itself, his career, which was full of professional rivalry and inspiration to future artists and engineers. Restoration workshops still follow the traditional techniques of the master sculptors who adorned the cathedral's interior and facade.
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After the Fall of the Roman Empire, an Eastern Roman province of Venetia survived the conquest by the Franks. It gradually grew to become a crucial trade center between the Byzantine Empire and Europe. Saint Mark's Basilica was built in place of an older church and from the very start, became a symbol of the economic and political power of Venice. The design, a mix of Eastern and Western basilica, its ornaments¡Xan imposing display of Byzantine mosaics and altar pieces, Gothic sculptures and lavish treasures stripped off the buildings of the old empire. The famous bronze Horses taken from Constantinople's Hippodrome stood for centuries as symbols of Venice's unruly defiance, and a legend of empires falling whenever they were moved, grew around the monumental sculptures. The Most Serene Republic of Venice fell to Napoleon's conquest, and the Basilica has had to face the challenges of age, negligence and tourism.
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Worlds of the Masters traces major developments in artistic traditions of Northern and Italian Renaissance.
Shifts in the content, technique and aesthetics mirrored the changes in society's religious, political and economic climate leading up to the rise of individualism and the Age of Exploration. Now, the latest technology allows art historians to extract a wealth of information from a canvas, settling long debates over authorship attribution.
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What happened in Europe at the time of the renaissance and how has it influenced modern man? This historical documentary takes us back to one of history's most intriguing and crucial chapters of Europe's history when doors opened to whole new worlds; when man explored the stars, and traveled to the ends of the earth. The geniuses of the renaissance created a completely new understanding of the world and of mankind. This film tells the story of how it unfolds, and how the ideas came to affect the lives of Europeans. The Renaissance began in Italy during the 14th & 15th centuries where the perceived belief that all things great and small are controlled by God, was challenged. The thirst for knowledge prevailed and everything between heaven and earth was questioned. The next 200 years, this spread across Europe, leaving deep tracks in the fields of art, politics and ideas. However during this period, humanism and its ideals concerning the individual's rights and reciprocal respect and tolerance between people existed side by side with widespread persecution and intolerance. Until a few years ago the period has been presented as a pronounced break with the Middle Ages' gloomy church autonomy and narrow-mindedness. Today, we know there are many more sides and that the true story of this unique chapter in history has to be made up of the light and the dark.
The program takes us on a journey through the renaissance; from Florence in the South, to London and Amsterdam to Scandinavia in the North. It discusses the influences of great thinkers such as from Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Luther.
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This documentary explores non-conformist Russian art and features several Russian artists whose works are considered great masterpieces and classic examples of world conceptual art. Among interviewed artists are V. Komar, A. Kosolapov, O. Vasiliev, V. Bahkchinian, L. Sokov and others. The film also includes interviews with American and Russian art critics and contains works of more than 60 non-conformist artists from The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University and private collections. It also tells the story of art collector Norton Dodge whose efforts have resulted in the largest collection of Russian-Soviet non-conformist art in the world located in the US.
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) is the first and last great Impressionist: the man whose painting gave birth to the term Impressionism and who outlived them all, who was a pioneer of a radical style of painting executed in the open air which sought almost to halt time, to capture the fleeting sensations of light and movement and make them seem more permanent. He was an artist who did for haystacks and lily-ponds in painting what Rembrandt had done for self portraiture or Leonardo for enigmatically smiling women, creating paintings that are seductive, profound and boundary breaking and which have captured public imagination way beyond the narrow confines of the art world.
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was patrician, aloof and uncompromising, and had a seemingly effortless natural talent which sometimes disguised his obsessive working and reworking of images. As Monet and Renoir were fascinated by color and brushwork, Degas was drawn to draftsmanship and line, and he matched their achievement in certain respects. He exhibited in seven out of the eight Impressionist exhibitions and was a major champion of the core group and all it stood for, but he remained detached from many of the central concerns of Impressionism, notably open-air and landscape painting. He experimented with a greater range of artistic media than any major artist of the late nineteenth century, producing extraordinary work in sculpture, etching, mono-print, pastel, oil and photography, all of which he utilized to explore the human figure.
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Manet (1832-83) was the reluctant role model and artistic godfather of the Impressionists. He never participated in their exhibitions and only in later life did he begin to adopt something of an Impressionist technique, but he above all others helped to liberate French painting from the shackles of academic tradition. Like many great artists, Manet is full of contradictions: the first significant painter of modern life who remained in awe of the old masters, a political radical who despised the monarchy but who remained a frivolous dandy for most of his life; a revolutionary, even subversive, artist whose art shocked both the public and the art establishment but who continued to crave official recognition.
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Small in physical stature but with a virility (both artistic and sexual) which became legendary, the aristocratic Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) became the painter of the darker side of Parisian life at the end of the nineteenth century, an artist who fleetingly captured the facade of gay Paris- its dances and cafe concerts, circuses and cabarets - but who broke through into an underworld of pimps and prostitutes, of promiscuity and pleasure tempered by the ravages of disease and the chronic effects of alcoholism.
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Paul Gauguins life (1848-1903) was as colorful as his painting, a rich and varied melting pot of different styles, ideas and cultures. He was the most restless of all the artists who were nurtured by Impressionism, a man who went to the other side of the world, to the South Seas, to escape from civilization. He wanted to create art that is simple, very simple. To do this / need to renew myself in unspoiled nature, to see nothing but savages, to live as they do to convey, as a child might, what my mind conceives, using primitive means of expression, which are the only right and true ones there are. He became a new primitive in a fast industrializing world and the prototype for a twentieth-century version of the artist as an outsider.
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The work of Pierre August Renoir (1841-1919) is the most sensual and carefree of all the Impressionists, a shameless celebration of pleasure and painting itself . Politically and artistically, Renoir remained a traditionalist in many respects, but throughout a long and consistently successful career his hedonistic creed rarely faltered. I like paintings that make me want to walk in them if they are landscapes, he once said, and to caress them if they are women.
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In many ways Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) has become the most celebrated, and certainly the most mythologized, artist in history- the misunderstood genius unknown and unloved in his lifetime who sold just one painting but whose work now commands record breaking prices.
Hollywood has lionized him, musicians and novelists have been inspired by and paid homage to him, and galleries the world over have huge attendance figures whenever his work is shown. His painting is more personally expressive than that produced by any other artist involved with Impressionism, a means by which his tragically short, intense and suicidally disturbed life can be chronicled while striking a universal chord which still reverberates more than a century later.
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Of all the major Impressionists, Paul C?zanne (1839-1906) is the artists artist. The list of those who bought his work, let alone expressed the deepest admiration for it, reads like a whos who in art over the past hundred years: Monet, Gauguin, Bonnard, Matisse, Picasso, Henry Moore, right up to the American painter Jasper Johns, have all owned works by the man dubbed The Father of Modern Painting. C?zanne is the man who pushed Impressionism towards a totally new way of representing the world and one which shattered the artistic conventions of five centuries and more. He developed a style in which multiple viewpoints merge in the same image, where form is fragmented and made more geometric and where scale is often totally disrupted. He was, said the English critic and artist Clive Bell, the Christopher Columbus of a whole new continent of form.
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