There seems to be at least thirty different tones of green here. ibid.
This modest quiet backwater tucked in just behind his father’s mill inspired one of the most popular and iconic pictures in all of English painting: The Hay Wain. ibid.
Eugène Delacroix is one of the great romantic painters. An artist who wrestled with the revolutionary politics of nineteenth-century France. Who added an exotic, oriental dimension to European art. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s2e8: Delacroix
Delacroix becomes one of the great colourists in Western art. ibid.
In 1828 Delacroix was back in the salon to produce what turns out to be the third of the great three early works ... The Death of Sardanapalus. ibid.
Whistler is one of the pioneers of modern art ... He was the first great international American artist. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s2e9: James McNeill Whistler
At the Piano is a family portrait ... A painting which suggests memory and mourning. A lament for a lost father. ibid.
Whistler becomes associated with the avant-garde ... Whistler has pushed himself to the forefront of the art scene in Paris and in London. ibid.
Whistler v Ruskin: Aside from the drama and notoriety of the event various issues were at stake. Not least Whistler’s belief that Art could and should exist for its own sake ... Whistler won the case but was humiliated by damages of a farthing. ibid.
He was perhaps the man most responsible for the development of modern art in England. Particularly abstract painting. ibid.
Auguste Rodin redefined the idea of sculpture in European art. Without losing any of its power and grandeur he liberated it from the constraints of classicism and created three-dimensional forms which pulsated with life and energy ... He became one of the fathers of modern art. Artists with Tim Marlow s2e10: Auguste Rodin
Rodin’s big break came in 1880 when he was commissioned to produce two vast bronze doors as to an entrance to a proposed new museum of decorative arts ... And produced The Gates of Hell. ibid.
Mary Cassatt is only one of a handful of women artists up to the beginning of the twentieth century who have managed to forge strong reputations in the male-dominated saga of art history. She was an American by birth but lived in France for sixty years who helped to develop the first great movement in modern art: Impressionism. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s2e11: Mary Cassatt
The Boating Party and pays distant but direct homage to a work produced by Manet. ibid.
Perhaps in homage to her own mother Cassatt explored more intently than ever the subject of mother and child. ibid.
She is a very important early great American artist, helping to build up a cultural momentum whose impact is still evident today ... She is a pioneering woman figure, one of a handful of woman artists before the twentieth century whose reputations were strong. ibid.
The Kiss ... One of the most erotic works of art. ibid.
Because of the First World War there was no state funeral. None the less, politicians and dignitaries from all over the world came to the ceremony to pay homage to the man who passionately and thoughtfully had put sculpture right back in the mainstream of modern art. ibid.
Egon Schiele has become one of the most celebrated artists of the last hundred years. A controversial figure in his own short lifetime who was jailed on an obscenity charge. His work is starkly honest and provocative. Intensely powerful images where the human figure is stripped down to base essentials both sexually and psychologically. He’s one of the great draughtsmen in art history. And perhaps the most obsessive painter of the Self ever, whose influence has struck a neurotic as well as erotic chord throughout the twentieth century. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s2e12: Schiele
Egon Schiele only lived for twenty-eight years and he worked for barely ten of those. But his life and his art were dominated by the cultural centre that was Vienna. ibid.
Encouraged by his art teacher at school Schiele applied to the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and was accepted. A few months earlier the Academy had refused entry to another young hopeful – Adolf Hitler. ibid.
The Vienna Secession was an art movement set up in the 1890s and broke away from the official academies which were regarded as too traditional. Within a few years of its founding the Succession built its own eye-catching headquarters in the heart of Vienna. An independent forum for artists, designers and architects. In 1907 Schiele met Gustav Klimt. ibid.
With Schiele it was always his self-obsession, his narcissism, that manifests itself in these nude self-portraits. ibid.
The second area that Schiele made his own and which also generated a substantial income for him and which also led to the production of confident almost brash erotic masterpieces like this later in his career was of course the female nude. ibid.
When Schiele actually got out of prison it’s widely believed that this was the work that he produced. A double portrait of him and Wally in an embrace and in a way paying a distant homage to an iconic Viennese painting produced by Gustav Klimt called The Kiss. ibid.
It’s called Death and the Maiden and undoubtedly is one of Schiele’s great masterpieces. ibid.
The Family, where father, mother and child are presented in a composition that is like an inverted pyramid. ibid.
The 2017 exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery Buckingham Palace London … an unrivalled number of Canalettos … a remarkable artist living at a remarkable time in a remarkable city. Tim Marlow, Great Art s1e1: Canaletto & The Art of Venice, ITV 2018
Smith: sold his entire collection to George III in 1762. ibid.
A wonderful exhibition that came to London’s National Gallery in 2015. Tim Marlow, Great Art s1e2: The Impressionists and the Man Who Made Them
Were it not for one man their success and enduring popularity might never have happened: that man was a Parisian art dealer called Paul Durand-Ruel. ibid.
‘Conventional art lovers were horrified with the Impressionists.’ ibid.
‘Turner is really the father of Impressionism in many ways.’ ibid.
‘So that’s a measure of how quickly the Americans latched on to Impressionism and understood it.’ ibid.
Michelangelo: painter, poet, sculptor and architect. Polls have consistently put him or one of his works, notably the Sistine Chapel walls and ceiling, at the top above all others. Tim Marlow, Great Art s1e3: Michelangelo: Love and Death
Genuinely a once in a lifetime show entitled Rembrandt: The Late Works … Rembrandt is unquestionably one of the greatest artists ever to have wielded a brush. Tim Marlow, Great Art s1e4: Rembrandt
Rembrandt’s dream of becoming a history painter was being realised … Rembrandt was proving he could turn his hand to anything. ibid.
In 2014 one of the most beautiful galleries in Europe the Mauritshaus in the Hague reopened after years of renovation. It contains a staggering collection of Dutch art, perhaps above all by the seventeenth century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Tim Marlow, Great Art s1e5: Girl with a Pearl Earring & Other Treasures
Girl with a Pearl Earring: ‘But what is it about this seventeenth-century picture, this mysterious Dutch girl painted by Johannes Vermeer, that had projected her to such iconic status?’ ibid.
‘Vermeer’s model has never been identified.’ ibid.
When one thinks of the Impressionists, one thinks of Paris or northern France. Not the gardens and landscapes of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. But there is a story to be told of American artists learning from a movement in Europe but making it very much their own, and very much reflective of America that at the end of the nineteenth century was undergoing enormous change. Tim Marlow: Great Art s2e5: The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, Gillian Anderson, ITV 2018
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement was an exhibition that originated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and then travelled to here: the Connecticut Florence Griswold Museum. ibid.
What brings them together is their interests in gardens and painting outdoors. ibid. Anna O Marley, curator Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
In the autumn of 1907 a young Spanish artist showed his Parisian friends a new painting. So horrified were they that he rolled it up and hid it away for a decade, and yet it’s a painting that changed the course of art history. The artist was Pablo Picasso. Tim Marlow, Great Art s3e1: Young Picasso, ITV 2019
‘Picasso indeed thought of himself as a Spanish exile in Paris.’ ibid. art historian