Main content

This Is The Modern World

Episode 3 of 3

In the final episode of the series, France is changing at a helter-skelter pace and its angry young artists are reinventing how to paint.

In the final episode, Andrew begins with the impressionists. He plunges into one of the most wildly creative periods in the history of art, when France was changing at a rapid pace and angry young artists would reinvent how to paint, finding their muses in the bars, brothels and cabarets of belle epoque Paris and turning the world of art on its head. Monet, Degas and friends launched a febrile conversation about the role of painting in the modern world that would pave the way for just about every modern art movement of note, from the cubists to the Fauves, from the surrealists to the existentialists and from conceptual artists to the abstract expressionists.

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 22 Jul 2018 15:10GMT

More episodes

Next

You are at the last episode

See all episodes from Art of France

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon
Director Tim Dunn
Executive Producer Basil Comely
Series Producer Silvia Sacco
Production Manager Imogen Stringer

Broadcasts