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Exhibition on screen. Season 3, episode 1, Goya : visions of flesh and blood / filmed and directed by David Bickerstaff ; produced by Phil Grabsky ; Arts Alliance with Seventh Art Productions

Additional Titles
Goya
Published
District of Columbia : MagellanTV, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (53 minutes)
Additional Creators
Bickerstaff, David, Grabsky, Phil, Seventh Art Productions, Arts Alliance (Great Britain), and MagellanTV
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In English.
Summary
Heir to Velázquez, hero to Picasso. Discover Spain's celebrated artist with this cinematic tour de force based on the National Gallery's must-see exhibition Goya: The Portraits. Francisco Goya is Spain's most celebrated artist and considered the father of modern art. Not only a brilliant observer of everyday life and Spain's troubled past, he is a gifted portrait painter and social commentator par excellence. Goya takes the genre of portraiture to new heights and his genius is reappraised in a much-anticipated landmark exhibition at The National Gallery, London. The film uses this exhibition to look in depth at Goya's eventful life. Through extensive location footage, Goya's revealing letters and a unique exhibition of masterpieces from great collections across the world, this film builds a fascinating portrait of the painter and the colourful world he painted. Influenced by Rembrandt and Velázquez, Goya explored a new realism where he did not flatter and was not afraid to reveal what he saw physically and psychologically. Yet this did not stop him securing major commissions from powerful individuals seeking the prestige of being painted by the best artist of the day. Royalty, aristocrats, politicians and close friends were subjected to his highly modern approach that captured rapid changes of expression, gesture and emotion. Goya's powerful vision and technical brilliance makes him one of the most admired and revered artists in the world today and indeed among the greatest painters to have lived.
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["00:52:40"]
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Title from title screen (viewed October 05, 2023).
Participant/Performer Note
Francisco de Goya, Hugh Sacks ; readings by Carlos Riera ; narrator, Leda Hodgson.
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