Tate Modern & National Gallery

Series 1 Episode 1
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First Broadcast: 9.55AM Fri 13 March 2009

Exploring some treasures from this prestigious gallery, including Auguste Rodin's The Kiss (1901-4), Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913) and and Pablo Picasso's The Three Dancers (1925).

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    1. Series 1 Episode 1 Tate Modern: Distortion

      Exploring some treasures from this prestigious gallery, including Auguste Rodin's The Kiss (1901-4), Umberto Boccioni's…

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    2. Series 1 Episode 2 Tate Modern: Abstract Art

      Featuring key works from the Tate Modern, including Wassily Kandinsky's Cossacks (1910-11) and Jackson Pollock's…

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    3. Series 1 Episode 3 Tate Modern: A Look at Still Life

      Sir William Nicholson's The Lowestoft Bowl (1911), Paul Cezanne's Still Life with Water Jug (1892-3) and Pablo…

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    4. Series 1 Episode 4 Tate Modern: Objects in Odd Places

      A study of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), Michael Craig-Martin's Oak Tree (1973) and Rebecca Horn's Concert for…

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    5. Series 1 Episode 5 Tate Modern: Different Dimensions

      Some of the most celebrated examples of 20th-century art from The Tate Modern: Carl André's Equivalent VIII (1966) and…

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    6. Series 1 Episode 6 Tate Modern: Pharmacy

      Damien Hirst's Pharmacy (1992) is explored.

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    7. Series 1 Episode 7 Tate Modern: Abstracting Landscape

      Exploring some of the treasures in the gallery with Piet Mondrian's Sun, Church in Zeeland (1910), Tree (1913) and…

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    8. Series 1 Episode 8 Tate Modern: Sculpture from Nature

      Exploring some of the treasures from this prestigious gallery including Constantin Brancusi's Fish (1925) and Dame…

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    9. Series 1 Episode 9 Tate Modern: Outside In

      Richard Long's Waterfall Wall Painting (2000), Line Made by Walking (1967) and Red Slate Circle (1988) are some of the…

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    10. Series 1 Episode 10 Tate Modern: World War I

      The period of the Great War features William Orpen's Zonnebeke (1918) and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Bird Swallowing a…

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    11. Series 1 Episode 11 Tate Modern: World War II

      Salvador Dali's Mountain Lake (1938) and Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)…

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    12. Series 1 Episode 12 Tate Modern: The Effects of War

      Jean Fautrier's Large Tragic Head (1942), Giacometti's Standing Woman (1948-9), andHannah Collins' In the Course of…

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    13. Series 1 Episode 13 Tate Modern: Beautiful People?

      More of the treasures including Lucian Freud's Standing By the Rags (1988-9), Arman Condition of Women I (1960) and…

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    14. Series 1 Episode 14 Tate Modern: A Different Point of View

      Sonia Boyce's From Tarzan to Rambo etc (1987), Sarah Lucas' Self Portrait with Fried Eggs (1996) and Nan Goldin's Nan…

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    15. Series 1 Episode 15 Tate Modern: Myself and Others

      Featuring Louise Bourgeois Cell's Eyes and Mirrors (1989-93) and Annette Messager's The Pikes (1992-3).

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    16. Series 1 Episode 16 National Gallery: Madonnas and Goddesses

      Montages of women, goddesses and Botticelli's Venus and Mars and some of the pieces examined from this prestigious…

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    17. Series 1 Episode 17 National Gallery: Mothers and Sons

      Cupid Complaining to Venus by Lucas Cranach and The Adoration of the Kings by Jan Gossaert are examined.

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    18. Series 1 Episode 18 National Gallery: Portrait of a Couple

      A look at Thomas Gainsborough's Portrait of a Couple: Mr and Mrs Andrews, painted in 1750.

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    19. Series 1 Episode 19 National Gallery: Important People

      Introductory portrait montage and then The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein.

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    20. Series 1 Episode 20 National Gallery: Myself and Others

      The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck and Rembrandt's Self Portrait at the age of 63 are this episode's topics.

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    21. Series 1 Episode 21 National Gallery: Perspective 1

      Coronation of the Virgin (1370-71) by Jacopo di Clione and The Annunciation (1486) by Carlo Crivelli are under…

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    22. Series 1 Episode 22 National Gallery: Perspective II

      Landscape by Peter Paul Ruebens, The Avenue, Middelharnis by Meindert Hobbema and Rain, Steam and Speed by JMW Turner…

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    23. Series 1 Episode 23 National Gallery: Ordinary Lives

      Exploring some of the treasures from this prestigious gallery including Calais Pier by J M W Turner.

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    24. Series 1 Episode 24 National Gallery: That's Entertainment

      An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright and Hendrik Avercamp's A Winter Scene are the subjects of this…

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    25. Series 1 Episode 25 National Gallery: Everyday Life

      Bathers at Asnieres by Georges-Pierre Seurat provides the basis of art reflecting everyday day.

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    26. Series 1 Episode 26 National Gallery: Blood and Gore

      Perseus Turning Phineas and his Followers into Stone by Luca Giordano.

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    27. Series 1 Episode 27 National Gallery: Off With Her Head

      Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche lives up to the titular promise of this episode.

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    28. Series 1 Episode 28 National Gallery: Love Story

      Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne personify the emotion of love.

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