Synopsis
The renowned definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by Australian art critic Robert Hughes.
Episodes
Season 11E1The Mechanical ParadiseThe irruption of the machine as a catalyst for the change in the forms and visions of artists in the early twentieth century. Cubism and Futurism as the movement of modern world and embodied in a canvas.60m2E2The Powers That BeAfter the WW1 art is not indifferent to the change that the catastrophe had been. A provocative and ironic art, Dadaism was continued by militant leftist artists in Germany. In Russia, the communist revolution attracted modern artists to the fight, believing that they would change society to a fairer world, but they soon saw their utopia failed.60m3E3The Landscape of PleasureThroughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in the art of the twentieth century.4E4Trouble in UtopiaThe architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.5E5The Threshold of LibertySurrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.6E6The View from the EdgeThe interior of the mind, the obsessions and the forces that dominate life, form the work of modern artists from van Gogh and Munch, to the American abstract expressionists.7E7Culture as NatureIn the mid-twentieth century the symbols of modern culture reflect the power of the media. Advertising, radio and television became the subject of artists. Pop art broke into the scene.8E8The Future That WasThe end of modernity makes Robert Hughes raise the trajectory of art and its surroundings during the twentieth century and doubts about its future and achievements.
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