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Painters and their Masterpieces
Documentaries exploring the lives and works of great painters and artists.
One of Scotland’s finest landscape artists, eyesight failing, attempts one last painting.
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30 Mar 2021
Artist Maggi Hambling tells her story while working on a mysterious black canvas.
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24 Oct 2020
The definitive story of international art sensation Keith Haring, told in his own words.
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04 Jul 2020
A unique insight into the life of celebrated painter Paula Rego, directed by her son.
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25 Mar 2017
Visual artist Rita Duffy tells how she has reflected NI society and politics in her work.
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21 Jan 2021
A look at the affinities between the art of Edvard Munch and Tracey Emin.
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11 Dec 2020
A look at Titian's greatest masterpieces, currently in quarantine at the National Gallery.
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04 Apr 2020
Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri investigate two paintings of characters from the Gospels.
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01 Feb 2021
Celebrated artist Bridget Riley talks to Kirsty Wark.
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05 Jun 2021
Andrew Graham-Dixon considers the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (2003)
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How American painter Bob Ross became a pop culture icon.
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21 Jul 2020
A film study of Francis Bacon's paintings, which have been called sick and corrupt. (1966)
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18 Sep 1966
A playful journey into the unconscious to discover the deep roots of surrealism.
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04 Apr 2017
Richard E Grant follows in the footsteps of artists who have painted on the Cote d'Azur.
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How John Constable was painting in a way that was considered groundbreaking at the time.
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07 Sep 2014
A day with pop artist Peter Blake in his studio following the process of his latest work.
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26 Aug 2015
An irreverent trip into the world of influential avant-garde art movement Dada.
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Ken Russell's 1962 film on the young British artists of the pop art movement.
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Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalene's myth on art and artists.
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06 Apr 2017
A year in the life of Sean Scully, one of the world’s richest painters.
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06 Apr 2019
Aubrey Beardsley's drawings still retain their power to amuse and to shock. (1982)
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The story of the last decade of Picasso's life, through the words of family and friends.
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24 Mar 2018
Kirsty Wark and Brenda Emmanus go behind the scenes at the Royal Academy summer exhibition
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15 Jun 2019
Fiona Bruce uncovers the story of Leonardo da Vinci.
