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From the birth of a unique voice in the artworld of the sixties, to worldwide consecration in the 90’s and 2000’s… From the “Ecole des Beaux Arts” in Paris to the Grand Prize of Rome, going all the way through Italy’s Villa Medicis and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg… André Brasilier is a self-defined “transfigurative” French painter, seeking harmony between plastic construction and emotion, and drawing his inspiration from life itself. As he is nearing his 100th birthday, this exclusive documentary invites you to step through a retrospective celebrating 70 years of a unique career, which is held at the Hangaram Design Museum of Seoul, South Korea.

Rembrandt: without a doubt the greatest painter in the Netherlands. Admired all over the world, especially for his play with light and dark. He was a Dutch celebrity avant la lettre, the superstar of the Golden Age ... A master of portraying human emotions, especially when it comes to his self-portraits. Technical virtuoso, but also ruthlessly honest. Rembrant painted his first self-portrait when he was 22. A small, but technically very refined work: "Self-portrait at an early age." Is the team able to unravel some of the secrets of Rembrandt's shadow play?

Private Tour takes you to discover the exhibition "Picasso. Blue and Pink" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This is an exceptional event because it is the first exhibition in France dedicated to the artist's blue and pink period. This exhibition brings together about 300 works by the artist from 1900 to 1906, including "Woman with a Fan". During this period of his life, Picasso was between 18 and 25 years old and began to assert his artistic identity.

An emblematic figure in Europe at the turn of the 18th century, this corporal who became Emperor of France unleashed the imagination of artists from whom he commissioned many works. Discover the victorious young “Bonaparte at the Pont d’Arcole” immortalised by the Antoine-Jean Gros in 1796. Observe also the portraits of all the guests present during the “Coronation of Napoleon” and his triumphant gesture as he crowned his wife Josephine in David’s masterpiece displayed in the Louvre Museum. Enjoy your visit!

After the tsunami in Japan in March 2011, a collective of architects led by Toyo Ito launched the "houses for all" project, collective spaces for the inhabitants of devastated towns. Three young architects, Su Fujimoto, Kumiko Inui and Akihisa Hirata, are building one of these houses in Rikuzentakata. Using trees from the destroyed forest, they create an image of a house with a pointed roof, pierced by 19 trunks. Winding around the interior spaces, a promenade alternates between staircases and terraces, facing the landscape: the grid of streets, the only trace of the vanished city.

The National Gallery of London is offering a fresh look at arguably one of the greatest artists of all – Johannes Vermeer, painter of the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring. In an exhibition entitled ‘Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure’, The National Gallery has chosen to focus on Vermeer’s relationship with music. It is one of the most popular themes of Dutch painting and reveals an enormous amount about this most fascinating of artists.

Bosch's hometown in the Netherlands has no paintings by the painter, yet for the major "Visions of Genius" exhibition held on the anniversary of his death in 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum has managed to bring together almost all of Bosch's paintings and drawings. "Visions of Genius" was the most ambitious exhibition ever dedicated to the Dutch painter. This documentary will plunge you into the strange, visionary world of Hieronymus Bosch.

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

The Domaine de Kerguéhennec offers artists the opportunity to take a look at the nature of Morbihan in the heart of Brittany in a residency. In this episode, we will meet two artists who came to take part in the exercise and who will be able to create their works inspired by their impressions in the garden of the domain.

In this episode, we will meet the artist Annette Messager. Her creations have been shaking up the contemporary scene for almost 50 years. She is one of the greatest French artists, awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2005. She uses fabric and everyday objects to represent the intimate. But she also remains a committed artist. Installed in the popular suburbs of Paris, Annette Messager welcomes us in her workshop.

In this episode, we will meet Isabelle Lesuisse, photographer. She is strongly influenced by architecture. Her photography work shows a taste for abstraction and graphics. She also works a lot with color, mainly in overprinting.

In this episode, we will discuss with Philippe Barbosa, reportage and corporate photographer. The term corporate photography means that he works for companies and produces images for them. It can be to make portraits of executives, for events... These are mostly images that serve the communication of the company.

Top presenting pals Nicki Chapman and Jules Hudson escape to the country to find antiques with Natasha Raskin and Phillip Serrell. It becomes girls versus boys, both teams with £400 in their pockets. Kicking off from Wormsley in Herefordshire they Road Trip into Wales and Oxfordshire, before finally finishing in North Finchley, in London for an auction. Along the way the girls meet a clog maker who carves shoes by hand. While the boys head to the Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum to hear about the regiment’s involvement at Gallipoli.

Vocal coaches and husband and wife David and Carrie Grant are swapping singing in harmony for battling it out with antiques. With the help of experts Will Axon and Mark Stacey our competitive celebrity couple uncover some unusual items to sell at auction in rural Norfolk. David also visits a patch of inner-city grass in Cambridge where today children play and dogs are walked but was actually the birthplace of football, while Carrie learns how Letchworth Garden City sparked a revolution in town design.

Hopper’s work is the most recognisable art in America – popular, praised, and mysterious. Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by his art – but who was he, and how did a struggling illustrator create such a bounty of notable work? This new film takes a deep look into Hopper’s art, his life, and his relationships. From his early career as an illustrator; his wife giving up her own promising art career to be his manager; his critical and commercial acclaim; and in his own words – this film explores the enigmatic personality behind the brush…

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly rich art, from Hokusai’s prints to Pop Art posters, via contemporary photography, manga, cinema and street art. The exhibition was a huge success and attracted a significantly younger and more diverse audience than usual. The film draws on the exhibition to take us to Tokyo and explore the city’s art and artistic figures in greater depth. A superbly illustrated and richly detailed documentary, which traces the journey of a metropolis marked by ceaseless cycles of destruction and rebirth throughout its 400-year history, to become one of the most dynamic and fascinating cities in the world today.

Lachlan Goudie follows Jesus’s last days on earth the Holy Week events that see him travel from the north of what is now Israel to Jerusalem, and the crucifixion. It’s a pilgrimage that millions undertake, and a story of love and suffering that has inspired some of the world’s most remarkable masterpieces.

No artist captured the essence and charm of Venice better than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. This remarkable collection of over 200 paintings, drawings and etchings allows us to discover Canaletto's artistic talent, his contemporaries and the city he reproduced with genius. The film also opens the doors of two official royal residences, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, to reveal more about the artist and Joseph Smith, the man who introduced Canaletto to Britain.

They are the world’s most popular artists. The works of Cézanne, Monet, Degas and their compatriots fetch tens of millions of dollars. But just who were they really? Why and how did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal? To help answer these questions, this programme secured unique access to a major exhibition focussing on the 19th century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel, the outspoken champion of Impressionism. This eagerly anticipated exhibition is perhaps the most comprehensive ever held about the Impressionists.

John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.

Discover or rediscover the masterpieces of the Dutch national museum Rijksmuseum with artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (1525-1569) is one of the most renowned Flemish painters of the Renaissance. Although influenced by Italian art, his paintings maintained a typically Flemish tradition. A “peasant” painter, he depicted the lives of his country’s common folk as in the “Peasant Wedding”. In “Netherlandish Proverbs”, he wittily transcribes dozens of popular sayings. Admire also his incomplete “Tower of Babel”, a theme which Bruegel made into his own speciality. Enjoy your visit!

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

Pop Icon and actress Claire Grogan is reunited with fellow Glaswegian, Taggart actor Alex Norton as they battle it out in the search for profitable antiques. Anita Manning and Paul Laidlaw are on hand to lend their expertise. Anita and Alex find themselves on an Antiques ‘Boat’ Trip as they reminisce about childhood trips down the Clyde. While Claire and Paul see firsthand what Stirling castle would’ve looked like in the 16th century. The result of the auction in Ayr all rests on a naked lady.

Two photographers compete on a given theme. Agnès Grégoire, editor-in-chief of PHOTO magazine, will then have to decide between them and choose the best of the two. Today, the Phocaean city is at the heart of the competition: the two competitors must capture the most aesthetic and unusual aspects of it.

In this episode we go to Brussels to meet the artist Marcin Dudek. Like other artists, he has settled in an old abandoned church and uses it as a studio. In 15 years of artistic practice, this 37 year old Polish artist has crossed multiple forms of creation, from painting to installation, through performance art.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. You will discover his labour with Psyche showing her sisters her gifts from cupid, The storm, Night scene or the Beggar’s dream.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Edouard Manet. You will discover his labour with Lola de valence, Olympia, Eel and red mullet.

After a two-year touring exhibition, in 2015 Girl with a Pearl Earring returned to the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague. At 350 years old, the eternal Girl has always retained her aura of mystery and charm. The proof is in the number of curious onlookers (1.2 million) who flocked to catch a glimpse of her during her stay in Japan. The documentary seeks to uncover the many enigmas surrounding this extraordinary painting and its mysterious creator - Vermeer. Who was this girl? Why and how did Vermeer paint this picture? Come and travel back in time to discover Johannes Vermeer, visit the charming museum in The Hague and answer all these questions.

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is a German Romantic painter who concentrated mainly on landscape art, which he rendered in minute detail. He was rediscovered at the end of the 19th century. A melancholy character, he peopled his canvases with human figures seen from behind, contemplating the enormity of nature, for example in his famous “The Wanderer above the Mists” in Hamburg or the “Chalk Cliffs on Rügen”. Notice his superb landscapes with their twilight tones. Enjoy your visit!

At the top of a sloping garden, a mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade: the House of the French Communist Party, built between 1965 and 1980 by Oscar Niemeyer. A fine example of Jean Prouvé's curtain wall façade, the extraordinary Central Committee room under the dome is one of the finest Parisian buildings of the period.

In 64 episodes, fun and educational, you will know how to draw an airplane, a fireman, a haunted mansion, a soccer player, a sunset, a lion, the Eiffel Tower, seashells, a fairy... Our master draftsman Gia-Haï Phan will show you the basics of a successful drawing: proportions, perspectives, values, contrasts, volumes, blending, everything is covered.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

Two stars of the seventies, cool crooner Tony Christie and pop royalty Jimmy Osmond are accompanied by experts Catherine Southon and Margie Cooper. Blasting off from the Leicestershire town of Loughborough they’ll head for an auction in the Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent. Tony squeezes in a visit to Coalbrookdale, the place where ground breaking techniques were developed that kick-started the industrial revolution. And petrol-head Jimmy gets to whizz round the historical race circuit at Donington. The big auction finale includes a sing-a-long like no other. But which musical maestro will clinch victory?

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly rich art, from Hokusai’s prints to Pop Art posters, via contemporary photography, manga, cinema and street art. The exhibition was a huge success and attracted a significantly younger and more diverse audience than usual. The film draws on the exhibition to take us to Tokyo and explore the city’s art and artistic figures in greater depth. A superbly illustrated and richly detailed documentary, which traces the journey of a metropolis marked by ceaseless cycles of destruction and rebirth throughout its 400-year history, to become one of the most dynamic and fascinating cities in the world today.

Lachlan Goudie follows Jesus’s last days on earth the Holy Week events that see him travel from the north of what is now Israel to Jerusalem, and the crucifixion. It’s a pilgrimage that millions undertake, and a story of love and suffering that has inspired some of the world’s most remarkable masterpieces.

Karel Appel’s father forced him to take over the hairdressing business, but Karel only wanted one thing: to become a painter. And he did: A great master ahead of his time, a world famous painter even. In 1949, when he was still unknown and penniless, he made "Child, Church, Animal". Actually nothing is known about the construction of this painting. Not more than you can discover at first sight. To find out more, we have to take a closer look at the work using a microscope. It seems as if the work consists of several layers.

Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition "Cubism" at the Centre Pompidou. This exhibition gathers more than 300 works and focuses on the history of this founding movement of the 20th century. We will start from the sources of cubism, by presenting what the artists saw and looked at to free themselves from all the academic conventions of this time. We will also see that music had a very important place in the works of this movement as in the work "Musical Instruments" by Georges Braque.

Simultaneously painter and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640) was an essential personality in Europe’s 17th century artistic scene. He painted vast compositions for princely families of the time like the Marie de Medici cycle now housed in the Louvre Museum. He also personified the baroque vein in Northern Europe, developing a style of perpetual movement with luminous coloured strokes as in the “Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus” exhibited in Munich. Enjoy your visit!

At the top of a sloping garden, a mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade: the House of the French Communist Party, built between 1965 and 1980 by Oscar Niemeyer. A fine example of Jean Prouvé's curtain wall façade, the extraordinary Central Committee room under the dome is one of the finest Parisian buildings of the period.

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most adored artists. Numerous films and documentary series have focused on his uncommon genius, but without paying attention to what speaks for itself: his art. Leonardo da Vinci's incomparable paintings and drawings will be the focus of our film, and Exhibition on Screen will present all the paintings attributed to him.

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

It is in the center of Buenos Aires that Eduardo Stupia decided to install his studio entirely dedicated to creation. In a 20th century house, wedged between two modern buildings, he occupies a large space in which he can indulge in his favorite art, drawing. His works, which he describes himself as abstract landscapes, are drawn with pencil, charcoal or Indian ink. In his heterogeneous compositions, where the graphic language and the precision of the gesture hold a central place, Eduardo Stupia explores the semantics of the drawing and opens the fields of the imagination.

In this episode, we will talk about the artist Antoine Bourdelle. Son of a carpenter who moved to the capital, Antoine Bourdelle became the most important official sculptor at the beginning of the 20th century. This pupil of Rodin took on numerous commissions in France and abroad. But he also kept some of his sculptures still present today in his workshop in the Montparnasse district, a magical place, which has remained frozen in the past.

In this episode, we will meet Pierre Morel, a photojournalist. He started this job very young and considers it a way of commitment and activism. What interests him is to have the point of view of several photographers on the society and he tries to give his own point of view in his turn.

Two stars of the seventies, cool crooner Tony Christie and pop royalty Jimmy Osmond are accompanied by experts Catherine Southon and Margie Cooper. Blasting off from the Leicestershire town of Loughborough they’ll head for an auction in the Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent. Tony squeezes in a visit to Coalbrookdale, the place where ground breaking techniques were developed that kick-started the industrial revolution. And petrol-head Jimmy gets to whizz round the historical race circuit at Donington. The big auction finale includes a sing-a-long like no other. But which musical maestro will clinch victory?

Actors and friends from Casualty Susan Cookson and Suzannne Packer swap surgery scrubs for a 1965 Sunbeam Tiger as they battle it out on around the North West of England, assisted by James Braxton and David Harper. Susan discovers her inner haggler as Suzanne keeps the purse string very tight as she bids to discover an item with some real age. As the trip winds across Yorkshire there is the chance to meet a very special woman from Sheffield and a look around some incredible gardens with an amazing history.

John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.

In this episode, we will spend a special day with Charlotte Le Percin, cultural mediator at the Cernuschi Museum in Paris. She is the intermediary between the works and the visitors. Her audience ranges from kindergarteners to pensioners. With her, we will discover the life of a guide in a museum.

The City of Architecture and Heritage is a place dedicated to the art of building, its challenges, its eras, its styles, and its great masters. How are the major buildings of our time and of the past designed? Why and for whom were they built? The museum brings together a collection that allows you to navigate through centuries of architecture, to admire masterpieces usually out of sight, and to understand the great evolutions over the ages, from the 12th century to the present day.

David Hockney, generally considered one of Britain's most popular artists, is enjoying worldwide success, with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and elsewhere attracting millions of visitors. Now in his eighties, Hockney shows no sign of letting up or losing his legendary audacity. This film reveals intimate, previously unseen interviews and focuses on two successful exhibitions that took place in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

From the birth of a unique voice in the artworld of the sixties, to worldwide consecration in the 90’s and 2000’s… From the “Ecole des Beaux Arts” in Paris to the Grand Prize of Rome, going all the way through Italy’s Villa Medicis and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg… André Brasilier is a self-defined “transfigurative” French painter, seeking harmony between plastic construction and emotion, and drawing his inspiration from life itself. As he is nearing his 100th birthday, this exclusive documentary invites you to step through a retrospective celebrating 70 years of a unique career, which is held at the Hangaram Design Museum of Seoul, South Korea.

Vincent van Gogh's life remains shrouded in mystery: madness, illness, suicide - all the ingredients to create a myth. With complete and unprecedented access to the treasures of Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, this documentary sheds light on both one of the world's favorite artists and the museum's rich and unique collection. Discover these marvelous masterpieces on the big screen, while guests including world-renowned curators and art historians offer their interpretations and explanations of Van Gogh's work.

200 years after it opened and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery hosted the largest Van Gogh exhibition ever held in the UK (September 14, 2024 to January 19, 2025). The exhibition was a huge success, unanimously praised by the press, and tickets sold out quickly, making this film the only way to see what Forbes called a “once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.” Discover the passion that drove one of the world's most beloved artists to revolutionize art. Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers rewrites history and celebrates Van Gogh's genius without exploiting his suffering, allowing audiences to truly understand this iconic artist in a whole new way...

On this July 14, 1906, day of the French national day, the tricolored flags float in the streets of Le Havre. Discover sumptuous works with landscapes of all kinds.

An emblematic figure in Europe at the turn of the 18th century, this corporal who became Emperor of France unleashed the imagination of artists from whom he commissioned many works. Discover the victorious young “Bonaparte at the Pont d’Arcole” immortalised by the Antoine-Jean Gros in 1796. Observe also the portraits of all the guests present during the “Coronation of Napoleon” and his triumphant gesture as he crowned his wife Josephine in David’s masterpiece displayed in the Louvre Museum. Enjoy your visit!

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

Top presenting pals Nicki Chapman and Jules Hudson escape to the country to find antiques with Natasha Raskin and Phillip Serrell. It becomes girls versus boys, both teams with £400 in their pockets. Kicking off from Wormsley in Herefordshire they Road Trip into Wales and Oxfordshire, before finally finishing in North Finchley, in London for an auction. Along the way the girls meet a clog maker who carves shoes by hand. While the boys head to the Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum to hear about the regiment’s involvement at Gallipoli.

In this episode, the candidates Marine and Nicolas will have one hour to walk the streets of Bordeaux under the rain. The imposed theme is: Bordeaux and its inhabitants. They must exceptionally respect an imposed route and take a photograph of the quays.

In this episode, we go to the center of Berlin. This is where the artist Maria Volokhova has set up her studio. An artist who navigates the border between art and design, Maria Volokhova is fascinated by the interior of the human or animal body. She creates functional porcelain objects for everyday life, but she is dedicated above all to the aesthetics of her art.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Paul Cezanne. You will discover his labour with his still-life, mill on the Couleuvre at Pontoise, Young girl with doll.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Auguste Renoir. You will discover his labour with Girls at the piano, The Bathers, still-life with apples and pears.