The Power or Art. Another BBC Series knocking it out of the park!

Captain Beefheart · 02-07-2008, 09:30 PM

This is an old documentary but still fresh. If anyone here's down with art, or painting, I'm sure you'll be into this. The Picasso one flipped my wig so I figured i'd share:

http://tv-links.cc/documentary/The-Power-of-Art.htm

**Jocasta** · 02-08-2008, 05:15 AM

Great series, the Caravaggio and Bernini ones are the ones that stick with me most.
I'm a fan of Simon Schama, (did you see A History of Britain?) him and Richard Holmes (War Walks) the man really can get across his love and knowledge of the subject.

Captain Beefheart · 02-08-2008, 02:02 PM

Caravaggio wasn't only a dope painter, he was a ****in' psychopathic murderin' Gangster.

Schama is the man. He has a weird swaying action when he's stood upright that gets me.

**Jocasta** · 02-08-2008, 06:19 PM

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Caravaggio wasn't only a dope painter, he was a ****in' psychopathic murderin' Gangster.

It doesn't get much better than that.

I have you seen Mr Holmes?

Captain Beefheart · 02-08-2008, 06:45 PM

Haven't seen War Walks yet. I'll search it and see if I can come up with anything.

I could also tell you Caravaggio pioneered the light/dark style Rembrandt perfected but nobody cares about that. While I understand there's a need for a criteria to value all of them(best grasp of realism? use of light? or control over paint? trueness to the medium? etc etc), i'm more interested in their character, personality traits that led to the work of art.

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Jocasta Joshtopian Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Shaftesbury Avenue Posts: 17,791 My Profile	Great series, the Caravaggio and Bernini ones are the ones that stick with me most. I'm a fan of Simon Schama, (did you see A History of Britain?) him and Richard Holmes (War Walks) the man really can get across his love and knowledge of the subject.

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Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 3,672 My Profile	Haven't seen War Walks yet. I'll search it and see if I can come up with anything. I could also tell you Caravaggio pioneered the light/dark style Rembrandt perfected but nobody cares about that. While I understand there's a need for a criteria to value all of them(best grasp of realism? use of light? or control over paint? trueness to the medium? etc etc), i'm more interested in their character, personality traits that led to the work of art.

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