The Mexican Muralist movement is the artistic child of post-revolutionary Mexico. Octavio Paz clearly distinguishes the polit...

Futurism was the art of the avant-garde in Italy from 1909 to 1944. Its development, its artistic stimuli, its creative influ...

The fine detail of early Netherlandish paintings has continued for over five centuries to delight all who see them. Lifelike ...

Christopher Wood presents a very personal view of paintings from the reign of Queen Victoria. In this first program of the se...

This spectacular collage of music and images charts one period of great and momentous change at the end of the nineteenth cen...

Layers of dirt are lifted from a small picture largely ignored for centuries - and a masterpiece by Raphael is revealed. X-ra...

Tom Phillips works as a painter and graphic artist, and musical composer. He was born in London in 1937 and studied at St Cat...

From the 1930s onward, a kind of cultural nationalism grew up and strengthened in New Zealand: a desire to cut the umbilical ...

'When you start drawing, you are going to lose control. Someone said to me, my drawings don't lie.' An art therapist explains...

This film was made in order to preserve an important aspect of contemporary art - the Parisian studio of the Surrealist artis...