Art

Last night  the Sky Arts series featured Cezanne and his portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Cezanne is renowned for his landscapes and still life and in art history – the bridge between nineteenth century Paysage together with Impressionism and the modernists. He is less [...]

SKY ARTS continued their excellent series on exhibitions last night with this one at the Royal Academy. Gardens, like pictures of them, are intensely visual. So they work well in translation to television. The programme highlighted Monet and his garden at Giverny. A few years ago in Paris I made [...]

Sky Arts have been running a weekly series on exhibitions by great artists and last Monday it featured the Norwegian colossus Edvard Munch. Tim Marlow interviews curators of the museum and there’s a visual treat of the pictures to view. Previous painters have been Heironymus Bosch, Edourd Manet [...]

Whilst I enjoyed the second part of this programme broadcast yesterday it was with certain  reservations. The main problem was that, by being a travel history of the Riviera from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day and a review of the artists that painted there, the scope was too [...]

Since lockdown it’s been meltdown for the travel industry and not the most upbeat of times for me. I was heartened therefore to watch a programme on the history of the art of the Riviera last week  which brought many memories of Rust trips there. The first part, narrated by Richard E Grant, [...]