Fine Arts
It was written in Italian in the 14th century. It's a vast poem about someone who goes to the underworld after death and meets people in Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. It takes over 19 hours to get through it. These facts alone might make it impossibly daunting. Yet for the last 700 years or so it has fascinated readers of all sorts and backgrounds and nationalities. And it's a screenbook, not just an audiobook! But the fact is most people view stuff on their smartphones - having the words roll by (accompanied by some remarkable images by Blake and Botticelli) you'll probably find makes it a lot easier to take - to follow... but you can just listen if you want. It's been translated many times - in verse and prose. Here it is in verse by an English poet - Laurence Binyon. (early 20th century) Dante wrote in verse - a very constraining verse form called terza rima - three lines of regular beats with the first and last rhyming. What could be tougher than that? Poetry does not deal with facts so much as feelings and this is how it comes over. It is written in the religious framework of Dante's time. He is not for or against it. It's just the way it is. After a while the 700 years or so just fade away. We are there. The past becomes the present.
Slobodan Jovanovic was born in 1977 in Pancevo, Serbia. He studied harpsichord and clavichord with Robert Hill and basso continuo with Michael Behringer in Freiburg i. Br. In Karlsruhe he studied fortepiano and chamber music with Kristian Nyquist. He is also trained as a professional organist. Alongside harpsichordists Colin Tilney and Huguette Dreyfus, he attended various master classes as a scholarship holder, as well as this he perfected his basso continuo under Jesper Boje Christensen.
David Hockney , one of Britain's most successful contemporary artists, took a break from painting early in the 1980s to experiment with photography. He created Joiner photographs = montages of prints showing subjects from many different angles and at different times. Filmed at his Los Angeles home, Hockney is seen creating one of these photo-pieces, from the initial idea through to the finishing touches. He talks about his interest in photography and its effect on his paintings.
Frida Kahlo: declared a symbol of Mexican national heritage, made into a cult figure by the women's movement, praised by the likes of Picasso and Breton. At the age of 18, she suffered an accident that would forever change her life, destining her to pain, numerous operations and childlessness. This film takes you to the Blue House in Coyoacan, the place of her birth and the last years of her life. Today, the house serves as a museum dedicated to the charismatic artist. Haunting self-portraits and a stirring world of images tell of her life and passions, her thoughts and feelings, her exhausting love for Diego Rivera and her deep connection to Mexico.
Colour, form, area - this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in his life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved the way for modern art. In 1913, he created one of the first abstract pictures, the theoretical basis of which was inspired by his essay Uber daas Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art). Accompanied by Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition, Labarthe goes on a sensual journey which makes the soul resound with colors and forms.
The textural work Body Textures is a beautiful sonic journey into the human body's different cells. Cross-sectional images of cell types such as fat, protein and connective tissue form the basis of the orchestral work, and have served as an inspirational source for the different texture areas and movements.
Compsoser Signe Lykke has always been deeply absorbed by the human body - this marvelous piece of meat with a crazily advanced organic machine, which we at the same time know so incredibly much and so infinitely little about. In the same way as in the big jigsaw puzzle, the universe, we are looking for missing pieces that can help us understand and decode the great context. Body Textures is a tribute to all of that we do not understand, but that fascinates us every day and forms the foundation stones of our existence.
Body Textures is released both as an digital audio work and as an audio/visual work with video art by highly acclaimed video artist Yoshi Sodeoka
Compsoser Signe Lykke has always been deeply absorbed by the human body - this marvelous piece of meat with a crazily advanced organic machine, which we at the same time know so incredibly much and so infinitely little about. In the same way as in the big jigsaw puzzle, the universe, we are looking for missing pieces that can help us understand and decode the great context. Body Textures is a tribute to all of that we do not understand, but that fascinates us every day and forms the foundation stones of our existence.
Body Textures is released both as an digital audio work and as an audio/visual work with video art by highly acclaimed video artist Yoshi Sodeoka
Revolution! In 1915 the Russian artist Malevich declared a Black Square on a White Background an icon of his times and thus founded a new form of art, liberated from objects - Suprematism. Supported by the Bolsheviks at first, his "formalistic" art was soon considered counterrevolutionary. 50 years later, in 1989, the first comprehensive Malevich retrospective outside Russia was held in Amsterdam's Stedeliijk Museum. It is here that Barrie Gavin outlines the artist's creative phases and his life story. In doing so, he discovers the most diverse "isms" of the 20th century and one of the most significant pioneers of abstract art.
When a renowned and internationally experienced orchestra such as the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn gives the stage to a young virtuoso like Linus Roth, a classical atmosphere is created where thesuspense between the audience and artists reaches a boiling pointand decisively influences the style of playing. Professor Jorg Faerber staged a concert with precisely all these factors, in which the orchestra offers probably the best fundament for a young virtuoso with its perfect playing. Faerber impressively sets the intensity of the performance in tantalising contrast to the soloists' sheer feeling for Mozart .
David (1748-1825) saw his art as a weapon for social change. This film traces his career from his youth, as a Student of Boucher, through his heavy involvement in the politics of the French Revolution, to his exile in Brussels. Drawing on the memoirs of his pupil Delecluze and other historical documents, it provides a fascinating insight into the world of late eighteenth-century French society.
Ingres (1780-1867) presents a paradox - admired by many but loved by few, he was called reactionary and opposed the new Romanticism. Yet many who followed in the footsteps of his arch rival Delacroix found inspiration in Ingres' work. Demonstrating the diversity of his art and the flexibility of his style, this film considers his reaction against the artistic changes of his day. It uses contemporary documentation and Ingres' words and paintings to investigate the enigma he presents.
Titian's genius and significance in European art are undisputed. Trained at the Giovanni Bellini workshop and influenced by working together with Giorgione, he came to a masterly use of colour, light and shade. His oeuvre contains everything his times demanded: drama, carnal lust, religious fervour, mythology and portraits. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff takes us to the places where the renais