Art on the BBC

Monet - The French Revolutionary (2x3)

Fecha de emisión: Ene 17, 2022

Art Historian Katy Hessel examines six decades of BBC archive to create a television history of Claude Monet. Monet is known as the father of impressionism, the movement that arguably kick-started modern western art. But his work has become so commercialised – used on everything from chocolate boxes to wastepaper bins – that most of us have little sense of how radical an artist he really was. Now, by delving deep in the BBC archives, Katy will rediscover Monet as an artist driven by a burning ambition to relentlessly reinvent his technique and reshape art again and again. Katy learns how Monet set impressionism alight, a movement that shocked and confused the public and critics alike, created his series paintings in an extraordinarily ambitious attempt to capture the nature of time, and would go on to influence America’s mid-century artistic revolutionaries such as Jackson Pollock. The subject of Monet has fascinated many of the BBC’s greatest programme-making talents. We meet Monet