BBC - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (2006)
BBC - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (2006)
DVDRip | 624 x 352 | .AVI/XviD @ 1452 Kbps | 2x~49mn | English MP3 132 Kbps, 2 channels | 1.09 GB
Genre: Documentary, History, Arts
DVDRip | 624 x 352 | .AVI/XviD @ 1452 Kbps | 2x~49mn | English MP3 132 Kbps, 2 channels | 1.09 GB
Genre: Documentary, History, Arts
This extraordinary crucifiction scene - inspired by a weird mix of Spanish mysticism and nuclear physics - is often called the 20th century's greatest religious painting. Yet the artist was a notorious blasphemer whose work had provoked outrage in the Catholic Church.Part 1: Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross excited controversy from the moment it appeared. The artist has been denounced as a tasteless joker, and many artists and critics continue to despise a painting they call 'vulgar' and 'kitsch'.
This documentary describes how Dali set about creating a synthesis of Catholic mysticism and nuclear physics, and how he suspended a Hollywood actor from the ceiling as a model and employed a quantity surveyor to work out the perspective. ' What's so good about the picture,' says Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, 'is that "in every way" it is impossible.' And whether you admire the painting or not, here is an accomplished documentary about it.
Part 2: The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca
A masterpiece of composition, Francesca's widely admired painting depicts the risen Christ - wearing the expression of "a study steveadore", as one art critic put it - while beneath him the guards slumber.
The last of this superb series focuses on Piero della Francesca's The Resurrection, described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the supreme works of painting' and by Aldous Huxley as 'the greatest picture in the world'. (A child being taught in an art class is filmed asking innocently if Huxley had seen all the pictures in the world.) The figure of Christ stares out with mesmerising eyes while the guards sleep beneath, creating an extraordinary sense of quiet and stillness. Yet this masterpiece so fell out of favour in the 18th century that it was plastered over, and again was nearly destroyed in the Second World War before a British officer remembered Huxley's quote and stopped the bombardment of Sansepolcro. In describing the technique, drama and significance of paintings in an informed and entertaining way, this Private Lives series cannot be bettered.
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BBC - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (2006)
BBC - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (2006)
BBC - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (2006)
BBC - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (2006)
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