Exhibition on Screen: Manet From the Royal Academy
[ Seventh Art / DVD - released 15/Sep/2015 ] Manet's portraits are rarely afforded such close attention as they are given in this exquisitely crafted and insightful film presented by art expert Tim Marlow. Manet's portraiture comprised about half his work, giving life on canvas to family,... |
Exhibition On Screen - Matisse from MOMA and Tate Modern
[ Seventh Art Productions / DVD - released 30/Oct/2015 ] MoMA & Tate Modern's record-breaking show 'The Cut-Outs' explores the final chapter of Matisse's career when he began 'carving into colour,' creating his signature cutouts. Audiences are invited to enjoy an intimate, behind-the-scenes documentary... |
Munch from the Munch Museum and National Gallery, Oslo
[ Seventh Art Exhibition On Screen DVD / DVD - released 31/Jul/2015 ] In 2013 Norway celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944), one of the towering figures of modern art. |
The Nude In Art with Tim Marlow
[ Seventh Art / DVD - released 15/Sep/2015 ] Art expert Tim Marlow presents a four-part series exploring the nude in art. This comprehensive and illuminating series charts the portrayal of the naked body throughout history from Classical times through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to... |
Exhibition On Screen: Painting the Modern Garden Monet to Matisse
[ Seventh Art / DVD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] For many great artists the garden has long been considered an desirable subject for the expression of colour, light and atmosphere. Claude Monet is perhaps the most well-known painter of gardens but other greats such as Van Gogh, Pissarro, Matisse... |
From the National Gallery, London
Exhibition on Screen: Vermeer and music - the Art of Love and Leisure [ Seventh Art Productions DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Johannes Vermeer is a fascinating painter whose life and works are explored here in amazing detail. Filmed in London's National Gallery, New York's Met and other galleries in the USA and the Netherlands, this stunning film delves into a breath-taking... |
Tim Marlow (narrator)
Great Artists Two: Constable (1776-1837) [ Seventh Art Productions DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] There have been few more powerful painters of landscape than John Constable. He brought a scale, ambition and impact to a subject long considered amongst the lowest forms of art. Constable is often celebrated as a nostalgic painter of a lost England... |
Art Deco Icons: The Complete Series
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 5/Feb/2013 ] Art Deco Icons - The Complete TV Series presented on DVD. A fascinating look at the glamorous art deco design movement through four of its finest examples. |
Botticelli, Florence And The Medici
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/Oct/2021 ] "Beauty, creativity, genius: the Renaissance Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici was a powerhouse of art and culture. Among countless shops and government buildings, there was endless beauty coexisting with the dark side of the city, made up of power... |
Dior And I
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2015 ] DIOR AND I is a tantalising 'behind-the-seams' glimpse at the making of Raf Simons' first haute couture collection for Christian Dior in 2012. Established in the fashion world as a minimalist designer, Simons has both his reputation and the legacy... |
Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 18/Mar/2021 ] Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost will take us on the trail of a story that has become myth. Through Tahiti and Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, we will experience the landscapes that inspired Gauguin, in the places where he built houses with... |
Grand Designs - Series Two
[ FME / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] G :- Presented by design expert Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs charts the in-depth process of ambitious design projects, from the initial intricacies of blueprints to the long and often arduous task of turning those designs into a practical living... |
Grand Designs - Series Three
[ FME / 2 DVD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] PG - Contains low level offensive language. Following the in-depth process of an ambitious design project, from the initial intricacies of blueprints to the long and often arduous task of turning designs into a practical living space. |
Grand Designs - Series Twelve
[ Fremantle Media / 3 DVD - released 12/Aug/2015 ] Presented by design expert Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs charts the in-depth process of ambitious design projects, from the initial intricacies of blueprints to the long and often arduous task of turning those designs into a practical living... |
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD ] Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials - from Anna Wintour to Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling to Isabella Rossillini - finally gave their own... |
Hermitage: The Power of Art
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 27/Aug/2020 ] The film treats The Hermitage as a living being. It tells the story of the daily life of the museum today continuously leaving the 'here and now' to retrace two and a half centuries A wonderful complex of buildings with the largest collection of... |
Hitler Versus Picasso
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2022 ] In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize "Degenerate Art" (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify "Classic Art". This immersive documentary reveals the... |
Klimt and Schiele: Eros and Psyche
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 11/Feb/2021 ] 1918. As the roar of the First World War cannons is dying out, in Vienna, the heart of Central Europe, a golden age comes to an end. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is beginning to disintegrate. Since the dawn of the century, Gustav Klimt and Egon... |
Mapplethorpe
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] Robert Mapplethorpe's portraits, images of calla lilies, and chronicles of New York City's underground BDSM scene remain touchstones of 20th-century photography even now, nearly three decades after his death from complications of HIV/AIDS in 1989.... |
Marina Abramovic In Brazil: The Space In Between
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Nov/2018 ] Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil in search of the spiritual forces of nature that are embedded in the culture of native Brazilians. Through communing with locals, partaking in local traditions, and venturing out into caves and forests, she... |