1980 British television series
100 Great Paintings |
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Created by | Edwin Mullins |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
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Original language | English |
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Network | BBC Two |
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Release | 1980 (1980) |
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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins.[1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each.[2] The selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with an emphasis on European paintings. He deliberately avoided especially famous paintings, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or John Constable's The Haywain.[3] The series is available on VHS and DVD.[4]
On the basis of the series, Mullins published the book Great Paintings: Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated (1981), which contained about half of the theme groups. A German translation of Mullins' book appeared as 100 Meisterwerke in 1983. In 1985, a second volume came out, only in Germany, which discussed the remaining 50 paintings.
From 1980 through 1994, the West German broadcaster WDR produced a television series called 1000 Meisterwerke (originally named 100 Meisterwerke aus den großen Museen der Welt; "100 Masterworks from the Great Museums of the World"), which was broadcast by ARD, ORF and BR. In each of the 10-minute broadcasts, a single painting was presented and analyzed by an art historian. The Sunday evening broadcasts had five million viewers.[5]
Selection of works presented
The following is a complete list of the 100 Great Paintings.[6]
- Josef Albers: Homage to the Square: Against Deep Blue (1955)[7]
- Albrecht Altdorfer: The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1528–29)[8]
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Fire (1566)
- Hendrick Avercamp: Winter Scene on a Canal (c. 1630)[9]
- Francis Bacon: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)[10]
- Hans Baldung Grien: Death and the Maiden (1517)[11]
- Giacomo Balla: Abstract Speed + Sound (1913–14)[12]
- Georg Baselitz: Allegory of Art
- Georg Baselitz: The Great Friends (1965)[13]
- Max Beckmann: Actors - Triptych (1941–42)[7]
- Giovanni Bellini: Prayer of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (c. 1465)[14]
- Frits Van den Berghe: Sunday (1924)
- Umberto Boccioni: The Farewells (1911)[15]
- Arnold Böcklin: Spring Awakening (1880)[16]
- Pierre Bonnard: Backlit Nude (1908)[17]
- Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1500)[14]
- Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus (1478–1487)[18]
- François Boucher: The Blonde Odalisque (1751)[19]
- Georges Braque: The Female Musician (1917–1918)[20]
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1550)[21]
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Triumph of Death
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Hunters in the Snow (Return of the Hunters) (1565)[22]
- Gustave Caillebotte: Parisian Street, Rainy Day (1877)[23]
- Antonio Canaletto: Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day (1734)[24]
- Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus (1596–1598)[17]
- Caravaggio: The Lute Player (c. 1596)
- Vittore Carpaccio: Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Ponte di Rialto (1494)[25]
- Annibale Carracci: River Landscape (c. 1595)[20]
- Mary Cassatt: The Child's Bath (c. 1891)[23]
- Paul Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire (1897)[26]
- Paul Cézanne: Bathers (c. 1900)[27]
- Marc Chagall: I and the Village (1911)[21]
- Jean Siméon Chardin: The Young Schoolmistress (before 1740)[28]
- China: Clear Weather in the Valley (12th century)[9]
- John Constable: Salisbury Cathedral (1823)[21]
- Lovis Corinth: Self-portrait in Front of the Easel (1914)[5][29]
- Correggio: Leda and the Swan (c. 1530)[30]
- Gustave Courbet: Breakfast at the Hunt (1858)[22]
- Lucas Cranach the Elder: Adam and Eve in Paradise (1531)[31][32]
- Salvador Dalí: The Burning Giraffe (1936)[11]
- Honoré Daumier: Ecce Homo (c. 1849–1852)[25]
- Jacques-Louis David: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789)[10]
- Edgar Degas: Woman in a Tub (1886)[27]
- Eugène Delacroix: The Massacre at Chios (1824)[8]
- Robert Delaunay: Eiffel Tower, Champs de Mars (1911)[23]
- Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Electric Prisms (1914)[33]
- Niklaus Manuel Deutsch: Pyramus and Thisbe (after 1523)[11]
- Otto Dix: Flanders (1934–1936)[34][35]
- Jean Dubuffet: Prosperous country (1944)[33]
- Duccio: Christ Healing a Blind Man (1308–1310)[36]
- Marcel Duchamp: Sad Young Man in a Train (1911)[12]
- Albrecht Dürer: Picture of a Young Venetian Woman (1505)
- Albrecht Dürer: Self-portrait (1498)[37]
- Anthony van Dyck: Samson and Delilah (c. 1628–1630)[38]
- Thomas Eakins: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871)[9]
- James Ensor: Self-portrait with Masks (1899)[37]
- Max Ernst: The Attirement of the Bride (1939)[30]
- Jan van Eyck: The Madonna of the Chancellor Rolin (1434)[18]
- Lyonel Feininger: Bird Cloud (1926)[7]
- Lucio Fontana: Concetto Spaziale (1957)[13]
- Piero della Francesca: Resurrection of Christ (c. 1460)[18]
- Piero della Francesca: The Birth of Christ (around 1480)[20]
- Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and Sea (1952)[39]
- Caspar David Friedrich: The Sea of Ice (1822–1824)[40][41]
- Henry Fuseli: Titania Caressing Bottom with a Donkey's Head (1793)[16]
- Thomas Gainsborough: Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748–1749)[30]
- Paul Gauguin: Mahana no atua (Day of the God) (1894)[42]
- Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa (1819)[43]
- Alberto Giacometti: Portrait of Jean Genet (1955)[33]
- Giorgione: Sleeping Venus (1508)[19]
- Giorgione or Titian: Pastoral Concert (c. 1510)[20]
- Giotto: The Mourning of Christ (c. 1304–1306)[10]
- Hugo van der Goes: Adoration of the Kings (around 1470)[31][32]
- Vincent van Gogh: Self-portrait (1889)[37]
- Vincent van Gogh: Café Terrace at Night (1888)[44]
- Arshile Gorky: One Year the Milkweed (1944)[39]
- Francisco de Goya: The Colossus (attribution uncertain)
- Francisco de Goya: The Naked Maja (c. 1800)[19]
- Francisco de Goya: Carnival Scene (1793)[24]
- Benozzo Gozzoli: The Procession of the Magi (c. 1460)[24]
- Gotthard Graubner: Black Skin (1969)[13]
- El Greco: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586)[10]
- El Greco: View of Toledo (1600–1610)[44]
- Juan Gris: The Breakfast Table (1915)[33]
- George Grosz: Untitled (1920)[45][46]
- Matthias Grünewald: Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altarpiece (1515)[10]
- Erich Heckel: Convalescing Woman (1912–1913)[7]
- Hannah Höch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919–1920)[34][35]
- Ferdinand Hodler: Youth Admired by the Woman (1903)[16]
- Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of the Artist's Family (Holbein) (1528)[11]
- Winslow Homer: The Fox Hunt (1893)[22]
- Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (1942)[23]
- William Holman Hunt: The Hireling Shepherd (1851)[21]
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Turkish Bath (1862)[27]
- Johannes Itten: The Encounter (1916)[16]
- Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness (c. 1485–1490)[31][32]
- Alexej von Jawlensky: Meditation (1918)[47][48]
- Jasper Johns: Flag (1954–1955)[15]
- Wassily Kandinsky: Improvisation 6 (1910)[42]
- Kangra School: Radha and Krishna in the Garden (c. 1780)[30]
- Wilhelm von Kaulbach: Titus Destroying Jerusalem (1846)[5][29]
- Fernand Khnopff: Caress of the Sphinx (1896)
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Five Women on the Street (1913)[49][50]
- Konrad Klapheck: The War (1965)[45][46]
- Paul Klee: Bird Garden (1924)[14]
- Franz Kline: C & O (1958)[39]
- Wilhelm von Kobell: The Siege of Kosel (1808)[5][29]
- Oskar Kokoschka: The Bride of the Wind (1914)[26]
- Jan Kupecky: Portrait of the Miniaturist Karl Bruni (1709)
- Fernand Léger: The Wedding (1911)[24]
- Wilhelm Leibl: Three Women in Church (1878–1882)[40][41]
- Franz von Lenbach: Franz von Lenbach with Wife and Daughters (1903)[47][48]
- Roy Lichtenstein: Girl with Hair Band (1965)[39]
- Max Liebermann: Women Mending Nets (1887–1889)[40][41]
- Richard Lindner: The Meeting (1953)[15]
- Stefan Lochner: Madonna of the Rose Bower (c. 1448)[49][50]
- Lorenzo Lotto: The Sleeping Child Jesus with the Madonna, St. Joseph and St. Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1533)[38]
- Morris Louis: Beta-Kappa (1961)[39]
- August Macke: Woman with Umbrella in Front of a Hat Shop (1914)[44]
- René Magritte: The Empire of Light (1954)[17]
- Kazimir Malevich: An Englishman in Moscow (1914)
- Édouard Manet: Olympia (1863)[19]
- Andrea Mantegna: The Crucifixion (1457–1460)[43]
- Franz Marc: The Tiger (1912)[47][48]
- Hans von Marées: Golden Age (1879–1885)[5][29]
- Reginald Marsh: Twenty Cent Movie (1936)
- Masaccio: The Tribute Money (c. 1425)[25]
- Jan Matsys: Flora (1559)[40]
- Henri Matisse: Bather at the River (1916–1917)[27]
- Henri Matisse: Blue Nude (1907)[19]
- William McTaggart: The Storm (1890)[51]
- Hans Memling: St. John's Altarpiece (before 1494)[38]
- Adolph von Menzel: The Flute Concert (1850–1852)[34][35]
- Jean Metzinger: The Racing Cyclist (1914)[12]
- John Everett Millais: Ophelia (1851–1852)[52]
- Joan Miró: Dutch Interior I (1928)[15]
- László Moholy-Nagy: LIS (1922)[16]
- Claude Monet: Woman in a Garden (1867)[14]
- Piet Mondrian: Apple Tree in Bloom (1912)[14]
- Edvard Munch: Ashes (1894–95)
- Edvard Munch: Four Girls on the Bridge (1905)[49][50]
- Gabriele Münter: Village Street in Winter (1911)[47][48]
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c.1665)
- Louis or Antoine Le Nain: Peasant Family in an Interior (1640–1645)[43]
- Paul Nash: Dream Landscape (1936–1938)[52]
- Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Grauzug (1960)[13]
- Mikhail Nesterov: The Great Consecration (1897–98)
- Emil Nolde: St. Mary of Egypt (1912)[41]
- Georgia O'Keeffe: White Calico Flower (1931)
- Richard Oelze: Daily Stress (1934)[45][46]
- Victor Pasmore: Inland Coastal Landscape (1950)[52]
- Joachim Patinir: The Baptism of Christ (c. 1515)[38]
- Constant Permeke: The Engaged Couple
- Francis Picabia: Very Rare Picture of Earth (1915)[12]
- Pablo Picasso: Guernica (1937)[8]
- Pablo Picasso: La Vie (1903–1904)[36]
- Jackson Pollock: Autumn Rhythm (1950)[42]
- Nicolas Poussin: The Adoration of the Golden Calf (1635)[42]
- Nicolas Poussin: Sleeping Venus and Cupid (1630)[30]
- Henry Raeburn: Rev. Robert Walker Skating (1784)[51]
- Raphael: Madonna of the Meadow (1506)[28]
- Arnulf Rainer: Self-portrait Overpainted (1962–1963)[13]
- Rembrandt: The Jewish Bride (1666)[36]
- Rembrandt: Self-portrait as Paul (1661)[37]
- Auguste Renoir: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880)[9]
- Ilya Repin: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey (1880–1891)
- Sebastiano Ricci: Bathsheba at her Bath (c. 1720)[27]
- Hyacinthe Rigaud: Portrait of Louis XIV. (1701)[18]
- Hubert Robert: Design for the Arrangement of the Great Gallery of the Louvre des Louvre (1796)[43]
- Giulio Romano: Virgin and Child and the Young John (c. 1518)[51]
- Mark Rothko: Red, Brown and Black (1958)[17]
- Carl Rottmann: From the Greek Cycle (1838–1850)[5][29]
- Henri Rousseau: The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)[20]
- Peter Paul Rubens: Château de Steen with Hunter (c. 1635–1637)[21]
- Peter Paul Rubens: Mercury and Argus (1638)[25]
- Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael: The Large Forest (c. 1655–1660)[38]
- Philipp Otto Runge: The Hülsenbeck Children (1805–1806)[40][41]
- Pieter Saenredam: Interior of Grote Kerk in Haarlem (1648)[51]
- Egon Schiele: Mother with Two Children (1915–1917)[28]
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Medieval City on a River (1815)[34][35]
- Oskar Schlemmer: Group on the Railings I (1931)[45][46]
- Kurt Schwitters: Merzbild 25A, Constellation (1920)[45][46]
- Georges Seurat: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886)[9]
- Luca Signorelli: Portrait of an Older Man (c. 1500)[31][32]
- Tawaraya Sōtatsu: Waves of Matsushima (c. 1630)[26]
- Stanley Spencer: The Resurrection, Cookham (1924–1927)[52]
- Carl Spitzweg: The Poor Poet (1839)[34][35]
- George Stubbs: The Grosvenor Hunt (1762)[22]
- Franz von Stuck: Salome (1906)[47][48]
- Yves Tanguy: About Four o'clock in the Summer, the Hope (1929)[33]
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Virtue and Nobility putting Ignorance to Flight (c. 1745)[18]
- Jacopo Tintoretto: Bacchus, with Ariadne Crowned by Venus (1576–77)[36]
- Titian: Bacchanals (1523–1526)
- Titian: Diana and Callisto (1556–1559)[22]
- Georges de La Tour: The Dream of St. Joseph (c. 1628–1645)[36]
- Georges de La Tour: The Fortune Teller (c. 1620–1621)[25]
- William Turner: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (1834–1835)[26]
- William Turner: Venice - La Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute (1843)[44]
- Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano (c. 1456)[8]
- Emilio Vedova: Picture of Time – Barrier (1951)[12]
- Diego Velázquez: Las Meninas (1656)
- Diego Velázquez: Prince Balthasar Carlos (1635)[28]
- Diego Velázquez: The Surrender of Breda (1634)[8]
- Jan Vermeer: The Artist in his Atelier (c. 1670)[42]
- Jan Vermeer: View of Delft (c. 1660)[44]
- Paolo Veronese: The Wedding at Cana (1562–1563)[43]
- Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Self-Portrait with Daughter (1789)[37]
- Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (c. 1510)[28]
- Wolf Vostell: Miss America (1968)[49][50]
- Andy Warhol: Texan, Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (1963)[49][50]
- Antoine Watteau: Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)[24]
- Rogier van der Weyden: Saint Johns Altarpiece (after 1450)[31][32]
- James McNeill Whistler: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1877)[26]
- David Wilkie: William Bethune with Wife and Daughter (1804)[51]
- Fritz Winter: Composition in Blue (1953)[7]
- Konrad Witz: The Knights Abisai, Sibbechai and Benaja Bring King David Water (c. 1435)[11]
- Grant Wood: American Gothic (1930)[23]
- Joseph Wright of Derby: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1767–1768)[52]
- Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World (1948)[15]
- Francisco de Zurbarán: Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633)[17]