Great Art Explained (2020) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Great Art Explained online in HD.
Great Art Explained — Storyline
Great Art Explained is a video series that focuses on one piece of art per episode, breaking it down, using clear and concise language free of 'art-speak'.
Cast & Crew
Great Art Explained — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2020-05-29 |
| Seasons | 5 |
| Episodes | 39 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Network | YouTube |
| Status | Returning Series |
Great Art Explained — Episode Guide
2020
- E1: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version) (2020-05-29) — The Mona Lisa is without doubt the most famous painting in the world, yet perhaps we are over familiar with her. Here I explain why I think it is not only a great painting but also
- E2: Picasso’s Guernica (2020-06-26) — Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small vil
- E3: Michelangelo's David (2020-07-02) — Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter, an architect, a poet and an engineer. An outsider touched by genius. His statue of David, the most famou
- E4: The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault — This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man
- E5: Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas" (2020-08-02) — Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty in art, and instead chose to paint raw and honest experiences.
- E6: The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck (2020-08-30) — The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was painted in 1434. It has been dissected and analysed, maybe more than any other painting in histo
- E7: Artemisia Gentileschi (2020-09-03) — Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost e
- E8: Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych (2020-10-08) — Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immort
- E9: Monet's Water Lilies (2020-11-06) — Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvious, or worse, a chocolate box artist. His last works, the enormous water lily canvasses are among the mos
- E10: Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals (2020-11-27) — On the 25th February 1970, the Tate gallery in London received nine Mark Rothko canvasses, a generous donation from the artist himself. A few hours later, Rothko was found dead in
- E11: The Thinker by Rodin (2020-12-29) — The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the nature of man and his place in the world. For some it is a symb
2021
- E1: Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)' (2021-01-22) — In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw
- E2: Caravaggio's Taking of Christ (2021-02-21) — The Taking of Christ is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The subject is the moment that the son of God is betrayed with a kiss, and arrested in the garden of Gethse
- E3: Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (2021-04-16) — The Garden of Earthly Delights video was the most popular, voted on by viewers for me to make. I am still taking suggestions, so please put them on the comments of my video "what i
- E4: The Great Wave by Hokusai (2021-05-17) — In 1639 Japan closed its borders and cut itself off from the outside world. Foreigners were expelled, Western culture was forbidden, and Entering or leaving Japan was punishable by
- E5: Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night (2021-06-30) — Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old. Just seven years later, he would be dead. It was really his last four
- E6: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper (2021-07-23) — Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on ea
- E7: Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (2021-08-24) — You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s.
- E8: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (2021-10-05) — A group of artists, architects, musicians and social scientists, were experimenting in ways that would transform their individual fields. On the one hand, Vienna was the tradition
- E9: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (Full Length) (2021-11-04) — Who is Mona Lisa? Is it a self-portrait? Why doesn't she have eyebrows? Is she only famous because she was stolen? How do we know what Leonardo was thinking?
James Payne discusses
- E10: Salvador Dali (2021-12-10) — Salvador Dali's exploration of the depths of the subconscious mind in his paintings and his powerful images tapped into the fantasies, dreams, fears and hallucinations of entire ge
- E11: Episode 11
2022
- E1: The Birth of Venus by Botticelli (2022-02-19) — Sandro Botticelli’s poetic sense of beauty captivated the Florentine court. But it was his subject matter which distinguished him from other artists. He was one of the first wester
- E2: Yayoi Kusama (2022-03-25) — Yayoi Kusama lives in a psychiatric institution, which she entered voluntarily in 1977. She is now in her nineties and still works every single day. Known for her repeated dot patt
- E3: The Scream (2022-05-20) — Between 1863 when Munch was born and the years before the first world war, European cities were going through unprecedented change. Industrialization and economic change brought an
- E4: The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer (2022-06-24) — By the mid 17th century, the art being produced in Catholic countries had become a powerful tool of propaganda, characterized by a heightened sense of drama, movement, and theatric
- E5: Episode 5
2023
- E1: Dark Goya (2023-01-13) — In this full-length film, I look at Francisco Goya's later works. At the age of 46, Goya suffered from a severe illness that caused loss of vision and hearing, tinnitus, dizziness,
- E2: Georges Seurat (2023-03-12) — Georges Seurat once revealed that he had been ‘interested in finding an optical formula’ for painting since he was just 17 years old.
Seurat spent most of his adult life thinking
- E3: Georgia O'Keeffe (2023-04-15) — For seven decades Georgia O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art. She was a female artist who refused to be pigeonholed. An artist who stayed true to her unique vision and rem
- E4: John Singer Sargent: Madame X and Dr. Pozzi (2023-05-19) — John Singer Sargent was the most successful society portrait painter of the Belle Epoque, and having one’s portrait painted by him was seen as an indication of impeccable good tast
- E5: Keith Haring (2023-07-07) — Haring had championed the poster format as a traditional form of political activism. He saw in them the immediacy which we now think of when we think of his aesthetic. It was in 1
- E6: Thomas Gainsborough (2023-09-08) — At first glance, Thomas Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews, looks like just another classic painting of the 18th century, celebrating the dynastic marriage of the upper classes in a
- E7: René Magritte (2023-10-06) — In The Lovers II, by Magritte, he takes the cinematic cliché but disrupts our voyeuristic pleasure by covering the faces in cloth. A moment of connection becomes one of isolation,
- E8: Dorothea Tanning (2023-11-03) — Dorothea Tanning painted the dark side of Surrealism. Her work sprang from the fantastic and the supernatural happenings we find in Gothic and Romantic literature, as well as the d
- E9: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (2023-12-01) — At the age of 8, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the child prodigy, was presented to the Pope – who prophetically announced that the child would be the Michelangelo of his age. Bernini woul
2024
- E1: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (2024-01-05) — The age of Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries, and it focused mainly on the power of human intelligence to explain the natural world.
- E2: Van Gogh's Last Painting (2024-03-28)
- E3: The Father of Impressionism: Édouard Manet (2024-04-26)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Great Art Explained have? 5 season(s) with 39 episodes.
Where can I watch Great Art Explained? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
