Eminent art critic Edward Mullins examines the styles, schools and key personalities of European art.
VOLUME 2: Following the paths of developing schools of European art from teh 16th to the 19th centuries, we explore the exuberant paintings of Rubens and Van Dyck. We can compare them with sensitive portraits by Rembrandt and with Vermeer's light-filled domesticity, all varied products of Northern vision. In the south, we are guided through the vivid works of El Greco and Goya, and can enjoy the expansive flowering of teh Baroque, which is contrasted with Chardin's calm interiors and figures. We can then take delight - as Gainsborough, Constable and Turner evidently did - in the English landscape, and come face to face with portraits by Reynolds, before the revolutionary canvasses of Degas, through Monet's Impressionism, to the climax of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. Running Time 162 mins.
