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BBC television series presented by Simon Schama

Simon Schama's Ability of Art
Simon Schama's Power of Art.jpg
Genre Art History
Created past Simon Schama
Written by Simon Schama
Directed by Clare Beavan
Steve Condie
Carl Hindmarch
David Belton
James Runcie
Presented by Simon Schama
Narrated by Simon Schama
Original language English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes eight
Product
Executive producer Basil Comely
Producers Clare Beavan
Steve Condie
Carl Hindmarch
David Belton
James Runcie
Silvia Sacco
Simon Schama

Simon Schama's Ability of Art is an eight-part BBC TV mini-series examining the works of viii artists, the context surrounding ane of their works and the message they intended to convey with these. Information technology was written, created, narrated, and presented by Simon Schama. The series was offset circulate in October 2006 on BBC2, and was aired in multiple countries from 2006 to 2008, fifty-fifty beingness translated to Persian and Italian. The series is presented in chronological club with the oldest artists being the primeval episodes and the most recent artists being the final episodes. The serial looks at the following artists and works:

  1. Caravaggio – David with the Head of Goliath (c. 1610)
  2. Bernini – Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1657)
  3. Rembrandt – The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (1662)
  4. David – The Expiry of Marat (1793)
  5. Turner – The Slave Ship (1840)
  6. Van Gogh – Wheatfield with Crows (1890)
  7. Picasso – Guernica (1937)
  8. Rothko – Black on Maroon (1958)

Episodes [edit]

1. Caravaggio (David with the Head of Goliath) [edit]

The host looked at what made Caravaggio pigment this work and the bulletin Caravaggio intended to bear witness in his work. The episode reveals to viewers that Caravaggio was charged with murder and became a criminal, with Schama suggesting that this led to the darker themes found in his work.[i] He details that the artwork'southward intended message was as a plea for forgiveness from the Pope to remove the death by decapitation sentencing that Caravaggio had received following the murder of Ranuccio Tomassoni in 1606.[2]

two. Bernini (Ecstasy of St Theresa) [edit]

The piece of work was constructed in Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome over a five-twelvemonth menses between 1647 and 1652,[3] depicting Teresa of Àvila. The narrator describes that he sought to portray the Saint'southward overpowering joy or ecstasy in her servitude to God. The influence behind such a work came as a result of Bernini'due south passion and devout conventionalities in Christianity. This religious belief saw him place the work at the back of the chapel and construct a hidden window above where rays of sunlight dawned on the marble sculpture and so as to give it a heavenly, religious impact.[four]

3. Rembrandt (The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilius) [edit]

Schama outlines that the painting was deputed by the Amsterdam Urban center Council for the new Town Hall (Cavalli-Björkman, Görel, and Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf 135–136). Information technology was originally appointed to Govert Flinck who died before the project was undertaken. The project was and then divided upwards, with Rembrandt existence commissioned to paint a scene from the rebellion of the Batavians (onetime inhabitants of Holland) against the Romans. The host notes, the work was painted after the death of his wife and three of his children, describing that the etched, darker brushwork was influenced by this. This way was also common in the Baroque period and Rembrandt'due south style equally a whole.

iv. David (Expiry of Marat) [edit]

The episode analyses how the artwork was equally a tribute to his late friend and French Revolution leader, Jean-Paul Marat, who had been murdered past Charlotte Corday. The stylistic features of the work incorporated the history of the Roman and Greek empires. This was to symbolise to the people of the French Revolution that a future similar to these empires lay in front end of them. While also forewarning what a misuse of liberty could lead to (death of their leader).[1]

5. Turner (The Slave Ship) [edit]

Schama outlines the inspiration behind such a painting. Turner was compelled to paint the piece of work after reading The History and Abolition of the Slave Trade by Thomas Clarkson, he learned of the Zong massacre in 1781, when more than 130 slaves were ordered to exist thrown overboard in order to collect insurance payments.[5] The episode examines the development of Turner from a landscape painter to a symbolic expressionist painter, connecting the original mural and transforming it into a more than abstract piece that links together the natural environment. Specifically, it is noted how he transformed the natural surroundings using h2o colours, so that, "The storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming pelting clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the nighttime."[six]

6. Van Gogh (Wheatfield with Crows) [edit]

This work was one of Vincent van Gogh's final works and was completed in July 1890, before he died on 29 July 1890. The episode details the effect Van Gogh's lack of wealth had on his work, where this combined with his undiagnosed epilepsy, saw him stop up in a mental aviary. Information technology was here that Van Gogh was inspired to, "Sadness, extreme loneliness,"[seven] while besides wanting to prove what he considered, "Salubrious and fortifying about the countryside."[7] Schama examines the discipline matter of the work, where, "The menacing sky, the crows and the dead-end path are said to refer to the finish of his life budgeted."[viii]

7. Picasso (Guernica) [edit]

Schama outlines how the artwork was crafted in response to the bombing of a defenceless metropolis,[nine] Guernica, by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War. The piece of work is one of Picasso's cubist works, where its subject matter revolved around, "The most notorious bombing of the century."[10] The artwork spans 7.77m wide and 3.49 high. The episode outlines that the bulletin intended from the artwork was to exemplify the horrors and damages of state of war and deed as an anti-war symbol. And that the size of the artwork aids to engulf the bulk of the viewer's field of vision and exemplify this bulletin.

eight. Rothko (Black on Maroon) [edit]

This early Rothko work was completed in order to fulfil a commission for the Four Seasons in New York. Rothko withheld the work from installation at the eatery,[11] every bit he did not desire his work equally a background to the wealthy.[12] Schama outlines this and the inspirations surrounding Rothko and this work, specifically outlining his upbringing equally a Russian emigrant. Rothko initially gained inspiration every bit an abstract expressionist. Heavily influenced past philosophy and mythology, these two influences culminated in Rothko using colour to class a different medium, liberating colour from the objects, so that objects no longer have colour, but the painting as a whole, does.[ane]

Product [edit]

Filming for the Power of Art by Simon Schama started in October 2004. The show itself was released in 2006. Schama constructed the series shortly subsequently his previous work, History of Uk. The series producer was Clare Beavan, the executive producer was Basil Comely and the prove was backed by the BBC. The series is produced in chronological social club from Caravaggio (David with the Head of Goliath, 1610) as the beginning episode, to Rothko (Black on Maroon, 1958) as the final creative person. Schama used a variety of cinematic techniques to print upon the viewer the context surrounding the creative person, to explain artistic work through linguistic communication.[13] The host aimed to put viewers into the situations that these artists were facing at the fourth dimension of painting their works. When shooting the episodes, to achieve this aim Schama required that special cameras were used to allow exclusive angles of the artworks to exist captured. This was especially the instance for the Bernini episode where a jib camera was necessary to, "Feel Bernini making the sculpture, modelling the smiling of the angel."[14] (9:25)

In some episodes, the series incorporated actors to re-enact or re-envision the moments or context that surrounded the artist when painting the selected artwork. In these re-enactment scenes Paul Popplewell played Caravaggio, Van Gogh was performed by Andy Serkis and Mark Rothko played by Allan Corduner.

Thought for the bear witness [edit]

Schama was asked to create the series later on talks with BBC executives."[14] (5:16-7:01) The premise or the intended aim of the series was to pull viewers into the surround and context of the artist when they were painting their artwork. The aim of the series is described by Schama numerous times in a cocky-interview regarding the series. First, "Getting you (the viewer) out of the fine art gallery, out of the harsh world of the acoustic, where a guy tells you how long to stand in front end of a painting and when to move on. And plunk you back down into Rome in the 17th century, or Amsterdam or the Castilian Civil War."[14] (4:x) Further he states that he aimed to make viewers experience the very situations of the painting, "To make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, at this moment of panic or crisis, or drama, drama of the creative moment,"[14] (4:thirty) explaining, "If it'due south going to be done, especially if I'grand going to do information technology, the viewer has to suspend atheism, that's what we do in writing history."[xiv] (5:53) Schama finally surmises the inspiration for creating the evidence. "What nosotros're trying to do in this serial is to make you all that excited almost paintings you may know and may desire to look at again, sculptures you lot may know and want to look at again…We want to make this fine art as real to you every bit they were when the pigment was still moisture or before the marble was polished."[fourteen] (19:38)

In the self-interview, Schama explains the reason for the structure of the show (why but one artwork was examined). "We (Schama and the team creating the bear witness) knew for this sense of art equally a drama to work… nosotros would concentrate on ane moment of problem in the creative person's career, only also one particular piece of work of fine art. And so we'd loop back from that work of art to explicate how the artist got to that moment of problem. And that freed us completely from having to do a plan which covered every single greatest hit."[14] (x:55)

Distribution [edit]

The series was distributed firstly through the BBC mediums. It was broadcast on BBC2 in October 2006. Information technology can now be bought, and clips of the serial can be viewed on the BBC streaming service. The series was aired in Poland on TVP2 in February and March 2008. It aired in September 2008 in; the Usa (on PBS), Canada (on TVOntario), Australia (on ABC1), Asia-Pacific (on Australia Network), New Zealand (on Tv set ONE) and in Greece (ET1). The series was translated into Western farsi and Italian, airing on BBC Persia in Islamic republic of iran and Heaven Italia in Italian republic.

Release and reception [edit]

The series was generally well received. In terms of critical reception, John McDonald of the Sydney Morning Herald describes Schama equally, "Similar a Hollywood managing director, he has the ability to turn the near humdrum aspects of an creative person's biography into high hazard."[xv]
New York Times writer, Alessandra Stanley (in 2007, right as the documentary was airing) commended Schama himself stating, "Ability of Art, succeeds not because of the ability of the chosen masterpieces but because Mr. Schama masterfully weaves engaging mysteries around each artwork."[16]
John Leonard of New York Mag/Vulture (top critic on Rotten Tomatoes) states that, "This is not a substitute for art history; information technology is instead a series of seminars with a mind equal parts cultivated, enthusiastic, and idiosyncratic: his very ain Bernini fountain."[17]
Christopher Smith of Bangor Daily News (Maine) posted to Rotten Tomatoes that, "If there'south a criticism of the set, it'south of Schama himself, who favours a heavy pen." Smith as well states, "Still, sift through the wordplay and the padding, and what you discover is a mind brilliant with insight."[17]
In terms of numerical reviews, IMDb (with a full number of ratings of 994) rated the series 8.half-dozen out of 10.[18] Rotten Tomatoes gave the series a rating of 93% (with a total number of ratings of 40).[17]

Awards [edit]

The series was nominated and won a number of awards. They are in the table beneath:[eighteen]

DVD and book releases [edit]

Power of Art was published in book form by BBC Books in 2006 and released on DVD in June 2007.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Hoque Topu, Emdadul. "The Art Documentary and Simon Schama'due south Power of Art." Jawaharlal Nehru Academy. 2014
  2. ^ Lewis, Charles Due north. "Caravaggio's Imagery of Death and Allusion." American Imago, vol. 43, no. 3, 1986, pp. 261–272. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26304005. Accessed nineteen May 2021.
  3. ^ "Art Works". Hermitagemuseum.Org, 2021, https://world wide web.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/!ut/p/z0/Zc1Bb4IwGMbxr8IOHLf3ZbSN16ZLJmzIQqayXkjHgBW6FqFO46dXj8bjkzz5_UFCCdKqf90pr51V5rK_JKtyzlkUC0xzQV-Q58UHLcTqFSMCKcibA2UcORYxYZsMSUKuwvOUiawDOSr_-6ht66BcLaOiS95OtP9cL4Up0_fqoH-2whnT1Nf2HXxXvsC63-0kB1k765ujh3JQf3quGhviwU3DHLg2UJMPEdlTMNd7M_r91IRIyYIxGAf5TU33cAbdb63o/. Accessed 13 May 2021.
  4. ^ Senise, Luigi. "Manifesting the sacred: the 'Ecstasy of St. Teresa', the 'Call of St. Matthew'and the 'Conversion of St. Paul'characterized in printed tourist guides." Taylor and Francis Online (2019): 412-418
  5. ^ Harris, B. "Turner, Slave Ship (Video) | Khan Academy". Khan Academy, 2013, https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/afterwards-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/v/turner-slave-transport-slavers-throwing-overboard-the-dead-and-dying-typhoon-coming-on-1840. Accessed 23 Apr 2021.
  6. ^ McCoubrey, John (Dec 1998). "Turner's Slave Ship: abolitionism, Ruskin, and reception". Word and Paradigm, no. xiv: 335–338.
  7. ^ a b Van Gogh, Vincent. "898 (903, 649): To Theo Van Gogh And Jo Van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-Sur-Oise, On Or About Thursday, 10 July 1890. - Vincent Van Gogh Messages". Vangoghletters.Org, 1890, http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/messages/let898/letter.html. Accessed 23 April 2021.
  8. ^ Wheatfield With Crows - Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum, 2021, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0149V1962. Accessed 28 May 2021.
  9. ^ Hofmann, Werner "Picasso's 'Guernica' in Its Historical Context." Artibus Et Historiae, vol. four, no. vii, 1983, pp. 141–169. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1483186.
  10. ^ Rhodes, Richard. "Guernica: Horror and inspiration." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 69.6 (2013): xix-25.
  11. ^ Tate. "'Black on Maroon', Mark Rothko, 1958." Tate, 1 Jan. 1970, world wide web.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rothko-black-on-maroon-t01031.
  12. ^ Schulman, Michael. "Artistic Differences." The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 19 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/04/05/creative-differences.
  13. ^ Ye, Jing Yi et al. "Techniques Awarding On Cultural And Artistic Documentary Production: A Written report Of Simon Schama's Ability Of The Art". Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal Of Communication, vol 32, no. two, 2016, pp. 489-524. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press), doi:10.17576/jkmjc-2016-3202-25.
  14. ^ a b c d east f 1000 Schama, Simon. "Simon Schama On Making The Power Of Fine art Series". Youtube.com, 2015, https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?five=tZ9XoS-Yzd0. Accessed 28 May 2021.
  15. ^ McDonald, John. "Simon Schama's Ability Of Art". The Sydney Morning Herald, 2007, https://world wide web.smh.com.au/amusement/books/simon-schamas-power-of-art-20070106-gdp6m0.html. Accessed 23 Mar 2021.
  16. ^ ALESSANDRA STANLEY. "Matching Masterpieces With History's Flash Points: Simon Schama's Power of Fine art This night on PBS." New York Times (1923-Electric current File), New York Times Company, 2007, p. E1–.
  17. ^ a b c "Simon Schama'due south The Ability Of Fine art (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes, 2021, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/simon_schamas_the_power_of_art. Accessed 12 May 2021.
  18. ^ a b "Simon Schama'due south Ability Of Art (TV Mini-Series 2006– ) - Imdb". Imdb, 2021, https://www.imdb.com/championship/tt0887235/. Accessed 22 Apr 2021.

External links [edit]

  • Simon Schama's Power of Art at BBC Online Edit this at Wikidata
  • Simon Schama's Power of Art on BBC Online
  • Simon Schama'due south Power of Art on PBS
  • Simon Schama'south Power of Art at IMDb

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