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Passionate about horticulture, Monet remains the undisputed master of garden painting in the history of art, but he was not alone. Artists such as Van Gogh, Bonnard, Picasso and Matisse used the garden as a strong theme in their work. These great artists, along with many other famous names, are brought together in an innovative exhibition from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Gallery of Arts in London. From the exhibition itself to the beauty of artists' gardens such as Monet's at Giverny, we take a journey to discover how the modern garden was used to explore radical and wondrous new ideas.

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!

Discover or rediscover Chaim Soutine's masterpieces, each one more surprising than the last.

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

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.

In 2006, VITRA asked Herzog & de Meuron to construct a building to showcase furniture from their new HOME collection. The building is to be a museum and showroom. The architects propose a stack of 12 houses with pointed roofs. 12 different houses whose combination and interlocking create surprising spaces, both inside and out. More than an archetype, it's a house made of houses, a stroll through ever-changing architectural landscapes.

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this renaissance genius? Who was this ambitious and passionate man? A virtuoso craftsman, Michelangelo’s artistry is evident in everything he touched. Beautiful and diverse works such as the towering statue of David, the deeply moving Pietà in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter and his tour-de-force, the Sistine Chapel ceiling still leave us breathless today.

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.

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.

In this programme, you will find some of the masterpieces exhibited in this Galleries of Scotland.

Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), born in Caravaggio, is known as a wicked artist who had to flee Rome in 1606 after killing a man. But Caravaggio is above all a painter who changed the face of painting at the very beginning of the 17th century. Notice his use of colour in the people emerging from a dark background, like his “Bacchus” or “David”. One of his masterpieces is the cycle of the “Calling of Saint Matthew” in the chapel of the church of St- Louis-of-the-French in Rome. Enjoy your visit!

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!

A celebrity couple Road Trip – award winning journalists John Stapleton and Lynn Faulds Wood. Joining them on this jolly jaunt are Thomas Plant and Margie Cooper. With £400 in their pockets the teams kick off in Wrightington, Lancashire and head to Stockport for auction. Lynn and Thomas find themselves literally knee deep in antiques while hunting for old biscuit tins while Margie tries to convince John some rare lamps will make a profit. Also John learns how an American revolutionised British public transport and Lynn sees why snakes are milked in Liverpool.

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.

Lachlan Goudie traces the story of Mary through the gospels with a personal question: why is the life of the Mother of God barely described in the Bible, but so well-represented in art? Lachlan looks at her role in the story of the Resurrection and the subsequent events up to Pentecost, fifty days after Easter.

Gregor Hildebrandt has chosen to set up his workshop in the Wedding district of Berlin. The artist creates paintings and installations from pre-recorded magnetic sound tapes. It is a mise en abîme in works where the music becomes inaudible. The canvas preciously keeps in it the sounds and the notes which exist only in the head of the spectator and that of the artist.

In June 2017, a major exhibition opened in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. For the first time, this exhibition brought together all Cézanne's portraits. This was an opportunity to analyze Cézanne's work with the help of international experts and to tour the rooms of the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

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.

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 favourite Blue Peter presenters Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan are in the company of Natasha Raskin and Catherine Southon as they hunt for antiques around Surrey, Hertfordshire and North West London. Peter detours to learn how hockey became a popular sport the world over while keen aviator Sarah sees how the Battle of Britain was won. An incredible haul of antiques, including chimney pots, Pinocchio and a pair of African fertility figures, go under the gavel at an auction in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

In this episode, we will discuss with Eric Bouvet, photo reporter. His interest in photography started at the age of 8 when he saw a live broadcast of the first images of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. He then became interested in different subjects such as geopolitics, history, and finally became a photojournalist.

Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition "Dancing Gross" at LaM in Villeneuve d'Ascq, the museum of modern, contemporary and raw art. This exhibition presents works made by artists, dancers or not, and questions the themes of gesture and movement. It can be a simple photograph immortalizing a movement, a dance, or even reproductions of merry-go-rounds which will remind you the period of childhood.

The team wonders; who was Coorte who, in a time of lavishness, spent hours working on his austere still lifes of just a bunch of asparagus, three peaches or a bowl of strawberries? And how is it possible that eight different colors are needed to approximate the white of Coortes asparagus? And why are they so transparent? The search for the answers takes the team to a small church and an asparagus farmer in the Dutch provinces, which leads to a special discovery in a chemical laboratory.

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.

In this episode, we will spend a special day with Fanny Bouyagui, visual artist and director of the association Art Point M, and who is at the origin of the Braderie de l'Art in Roubaix. Since 1991, this event welcomes dozens of artists with a single motto, create from recycled objects. But before the arrival of the public, Fanny must make sure that certain rules are respected. We will accompany her throughout this very busy day.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the Marmottan Museum was a center of First Empire art. We go there to admire the magnificent collection of Paul Marmottan, and to relive the nostalgia of the great Napoleonic era, its imperial splendor, its past glories. But little by little, the Marmottan Museum is becoming a showcase for another style of art, less classic, more avant-garde: impressionism. In 1993, the museum changed its name: it became the Musée Marmottan-Monet.

Lucian Freud, one of the most famous British painters of our time, is also one of the few twentieth-century artists to have portrayed himself so consistently in self-portraiture. His self-portraits provide a fascinating insight into both his personality and his development as a painter, from his first portrait in 1939 to his last. Through fascinating interviews with former models, friends and leading experts, this intensely captivating documentary reveals the work of a master who represents a compelling study of the dynamics of aging and the process of self-representation.

Multi-award-winning director Phil Grabsky takes a fresh look at arguably the world's most beloved artist, using the words of the painter himself. I, Claude Monet reveals new facets of the man who gave birth to the Impressionist movement with one painting, and who was certainly one of the most influential and renowned painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Shot on location across Europe, I, Claude Monet is an unprecedented, intimate film exploration of some of Western art's most beloved cult settings.

In June 2017, a major exhibition opened in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. For the first time, this exhibition brought together all Cézanne's portraits. This was an opportunity to analyze Cézanne's work with the help of international experts and to tour the rooms of the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

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!

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), find our comments on the works of this founder of the Nabi movement.

During the Renaissance the male body was portrayed less frequently than its female counterpart. With the advent of studies at the French Academy in Rome, the male nude became, on the contrary, the most important exercise for the student painter, to the point where a work portraying a naked man became known as “Academy Study”. Look at the figure in “Charon Ferrying the Shades” by Subleyras or the “Male Nude or Hector” by David. The male nude also represents the heroic nude, for example in Ingres’ painting “Oedipus and the Sphinx”. Enjoy your visit!

Today we’re in the North East of England with top wheelchair paralympians Tanni Grey-Thompson and Jade Jones. Tanni has a record haul of medals and records, while her promising young protégé Jade is just starting out on her athletics career. In the company of experts Phil Serrell and David Harper, the Baroness from County Durham and Middlesbrough’s Jade will be on the lookout for antiques to take to auction in Harrogate. Tanni also tries her hand at traditional glass making and Jade learns about the man who was a design champion of the region.

In this episode, the two candidates, Anouar Hendrixx and Gwenaëlle David, will compete on the imposed theme of the fairground. They will have one hour to make the best possible photograph, then they will have to edit their photos for 30 minutes.

In this episode we will meet the artist Norman Dilworth. His working method is through play and experimentation. He assembles elements in a sequential order, or elements that already have a sequential relationship. Using primitive means and simple systems, he creates structures that express growth in a principle of natural development.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Jean-François Millet. You will discover his labour with Naked woman sleeping, Two bathers or The church at gréville.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Théodore Géricault. You will discover his labour with An Officer of the Imperial horse guards, Heroic landscape with fisherman or The Horse race.

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.

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!

Vauban's "queen of citadels" is the model for the military constructions that dot France. The Lille Citadelle was built between 1668 and 1671 at the request of Louis XIV, to designs by military engineer and architect Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. He conceived his fortress as a response to changes in the art of warfare. Although it has lost its original function, its rigor and formal simplicity have made it a source of inspiration for great contemporary architects.

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!

It’s a journey into antiquity with glamorous historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams. Paired with experts David Harper and Catherine Southon they Road Trip from Bletchley in Buckinghamshire to an auction in London. There’s also opportunity to hear how Mrs Beeton became the first ‘domestic Goddess’ and why Luton played a critical role in the fashion world when hats were de rigueur daily wear. David and Suzannah gamble on a giant ant while Catherine and Kate plump for a very large tea urn.

In this episode, we will spend a special day with Fanny Bouyagui, visual artist and director of the association Art Point M, and who is at the origin of the Braderie de l'Art in Roubaix. Since 1991, this event welcomes dozens of artists with a single motto, create from recycled objects. But before the arrival of the public, Fanny must make sure that certain rules are respected. We will accompany her throughout this very busy day.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the Marmottan Museum was a center of First Empire art. We go there to admire the magnificent collection of Paul Marmottan, and to relive the nostalgia of the great Napoleonic era, its imperial splendor, its past glories. But little by little, the Marmottan Museum is becoming a showcase for another style of art, less classic, more avant-garde: impressionism. In 1993, the museum changed its name: it became the Musée Marmottan-Monet.

Known for his outspoken, vitriolic views, Rudy Ricciotti is first and foremost a great architect who describes himself as local, mannerist and petit bourgeois. Winner of the Grand Prix National d'Architecture in 2006, his fame exploded with the creation of the Mucem (Musée des Civilisations Européennes et de la Méditerranée), inaugurated in 2013. Structured around the construction of one of his last buildings: the 19 M or Manufacture de la mode, for Chanel, the film traces his gradual rise, his sources of inspiration and his architectural commitments, which are not devoid of political orientation.

In 1840 Turner painted the masterpiece "Clouds and Water". Charlotte tries to fathom his loose style, with thick blobs. Englishman and cellist Dominic Seldis comes by to blare his cello with praise for this "British Rembrandt". Michel discovers that the painting has undergone precarious treatment, but wonders how. In search of the answers the team visits the Tate Britain and gather on a windy English cliff. An episode in which an iron, a chalk rock at Margate and a jar of beeswax play a leading role.

Private Tour takes you to discover the second exhibition of "Japanese art brut " at the Halle Saint Pierre. With this exhibition, we try to question and understand what makes the success and originality of art brut. Among the works on display you will be able to discover works by the iconic Japanese artist Sawada who participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013.

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472-1553) is a major artist of the German Renaissance, working in Wittenberg in the first half of the 16th century. Official painter to Frederic the Wise, the Prince Regent of Saxony, he was close to the reformer Martin Luther. As well as biblical themes, he was above all interested in portrayal of the female nude, as in the “Adam and Eve” of Besancon or the famous “Three Graces”, recently acquired by the Louvre after a fund raising appeal. Enjoy your visit!

Vauban's "queen of citadels" is the model for the military constructions that dot France. The Lille Citadelle was built between 1668 and 1671 at the request of Louis XIV, to designs by military engineer and architect Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. He conceived his fortress as a response to changes in the art of warfare. Although it has lost its original function, its rigor and formal simplicity have made it a source of inspiration for great contemporary architects.

Francisco Goya, considered the founder of modern art, is Spain's most acclaimed artist. As well as a gifted observer of Spanish life and its turbulent past, he is a gifted portraitist and social commentator. With Goya, the art of portraiture reached new heights. This major exhibition at London's National Gallery brings his genius back into the spotlight. Through a formidable collection of unique works and letters by Goya, we analyze the man himself and the world he painted.

Exhibition on Screen takes us through the streets of Paris and then to the heart of a superb exhibition at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, whose impressive collection of Degas works is the most representative in Britain. Having benefited from exclusive access to a wide variety of rare works, the film tells the story of Degas' quest for perfection through experimentation.

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!

In this episode, we will focus on the gardens of Giverny. Marcel Proust was so fond of the gardens of Giverny, created by Claude Monet, not far from Paris. However, the author of the novel "Du côté de chez Swann", never saw the gardens. This shows the imagination that these gardens unfold, even though they were skilfully designed for more than 40 years by the master of the place, Claude Monet.

In this episode, we will meet the artist Erik Desmazières. He is one of the most famous printmakers in France, and is exhibited around the world. He has brought to this discipline, a little outdated, a form of modernity, thanks to his fantastic landscapes soaked in science-fiction, immediately noticed by the collectors. Member of the French Academy of Fine Arts since 2008, Erik Desmazières has turned in recent years to realistic landscapes.

In this episode, we will meet Bernard Bakalian, a photo reporter. He will confide in us about his beginnings in Formula 1, about his friendship with the car driver Alain Prost, but also about his different reports, from tennis to the Pope's visits.

In this episode, we will meet Julien Pitinome, photo reporter and co-founder of the Œil collective. The members of this collective consider that they have a social vision of photography and that they must be able to give a voice to those who no longer have it or who do not have it.

It’s a journey into antiquity with glamorous historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams. Paired with experts David Harper and Catherine Southon they Road Trip from Bletchley in Buckinghamshire to an auction in London. There’s also opportunity to hear how Mrs Beeton became the first ‘domestic Goddess’ and why Luton played a critical role in the fashion world when hats were de rigueur daily wear. David and Suzannah gamble on a giant ant while Catherine and Kate plump for a very large tea urn.

Comedy legend Jennifer Saunders and best pal, top actress Patricia Potter take to the road on a humdinger of a trip. Joined by veteran antiquers Phillip Serrell and Mark Stacey they shop in Berkshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire before heading for an auction in Greenwich, London. Jennifer and Phil detour to hear about Fred Karno, the man credited with inventing slapstick comedy. While Patricia and Mark learn how a surgeon from Reading used his incredible sense of smell to successfully treat soldiers injured in World War One. And, Phil gets custard pied – what’s not to love?

Narrated by Gillian Anderson, this episode of Exhibition on Screen follows the footsteps of French artists such as Renoir and Monet, the American Impressionist movement forged its own path. Painted over a period of 40 years, these paintings reveal the United States both as a nation and as a creative breeding ground. The history of this movement is closely linked to the love of gardens and the desire to preserve nature in a country undergoing rapid urbanization. This enchanting journey through workshops, gardens and famous sites in the USA, UK and France is a feast for the eyes.

During the 20th century, the fame of the ‘Mona Lisa’ spread, establishing itself as the most iconic and recognisable painting of all time. It has been exploited in every sphere of culture and advertising, to the extent that its status as a pop icon has almost overshadowed its artistic value and historical significance. But if we consider Leonardo’s achievements as a pioneering craftsman and the unprecedented qualities of this work, the ‘Mona Lisa’ truly marked a turning point in portraiture. A masterpiece that set new standards in its day and which, five hundred years later, has become the very symbol of art.

In this programme, you will find some of the masterpieces exhibited in this Galleries of Scotland.

Lachlan Goudie traces the story of Mary through the gospels with a personal question: why is the life of the Mother of God barely described in the Bible, but so well-represented in art? Lachlan looks at her role in the story of the Resurrection and the subsequent events up to Pentecost, fifty days after Easter.

To mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, a major exhibition has opened in Rome. Exhibition on Screen had exclusive access to this event, which brings together over 200 major works by this Renaissance master. The film explores the exhibition and sheds new light on the work of this often misunderstood or, on the contrary, idealized artist.

Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition " Split air – Bamboo art in Japan " at the Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Museum. Bamboo art in Japan appeared quite late but continues today thanks to contemporary artists. Throughout this exhibition we will be able to observe works from different periods of this movement.

Discover the work of Matisse through the exhibitions at Tate Modern in London and MoMA in New York (2014) and enjoy the original performance of Royal Ballet star dancer Zenaida Yanowsky, who interprets the colors and dynamism of Matisse's painting to the jazz music of Courtney Pine. Punctuated by interviews with experts and rare archival footage of Matisse at work, this documentary will provide a special insight into the last chapter of the painter's career.

William Blake (1757-1827) developed his own complex and personal mythology. He was a pre-romantic British painter, engraver and poet.

Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), born in Caravaggio, is known as a wicked artist who had to flee Rome in 1606 after killing a man. But Caravaggio is above all a painter who changed the face of painting at the very beginning of the 17th century. Notice his use of colour in the people emerging from a dark background, like his “Bacchus” or “David”. One of his masterpieces is the cycle of the “Calling of Saint Matthew” in the chapel of the church of St- Louis-of-the-French in Rome. 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!

A celebrity couple Road Trip – award winning journalists John Stapleton and Lynn Faulds Wood. Joining them on this jolly jaunt are Thomas Plant and Margie Cooper. With £400 in their pockets the teams kick off in Wrightington, Lancashire and head to Stockport for auction. Lynn and Thomas find themselves literally knee deep in antiques while hunting for old biscuit tins while Margie tries to convince John some rare lamps will make a profit. Also John learns how an American revolutionised British public transport and Lynn sees why snakes are milked in Liverpool.

In each episode of Photo Contest, two contestants compete on an imposed theme such as rock'n roll, Japan or architecture. They have one hour to take the best possible photographs before editing them for 30 minutes in a studio. The photographs they have selected are then presented to Agnès Grégoire, editor-in-chief of PHOTO magazine, who will have to choose the best photographer.

In this episode, we will focus on the artist Ossip Zakdine. He is considered one of the masters of Cubist sculpture. His artistic output spans half a century and includes over 400 sculptures, thousands of drawings, watercolors and gouaches, engravings, book illustrations and tapestry cartoons.

Take an hour break to discover the work of an Italian painter, Amedeo Modigliani. You will discover his labour with Caryatid, Lolotte or others portraits.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Pierre Bonnard. You will discover his labour with Woman dozing on a bed, Summer in Normandy or The beach in low tide.