The Week of Art on TV, from Cimabue to Van Gogh

Debuts with Van Gogh the new season of Ulisse With Alberto Angela
Alberto Angela’s program returns to RAI 1 with four new episodes of Mint Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery. The protagonist of the first appointment, Monday 7 April at 9.30 pm, is one of the most popular artists in the contemporary audience. Van Gogh, the colors of eternity It is a long journey to the life and art of the Dutch painter through the places that inspired his most famous paintings and made by the background of his painful human affair. The episode will investigate how Van Gogh’s works were born and on the origin of his unmistakable language, made from energetic brush strokes, light and color.

The new series of Ulisse It will continue with three other specials dedicated to great characters from the past and the history of unique places in the world. Under the following phases, the story of London about the wings of music and an unexpected trip to Istanbul on the trail of a controversial and mysterious European lady, Lucrezia Borgia.

The Mystery of the Self -Portrahes: On Rai 5 A Journey to the World of Albrecht Dürer
Eclectic and brilliant such as Picasso, eccentric such as Salvador Dalì, Histrionic such as Andy Warhol, enterprising as Jeff Koons. Five centuries before them all, Albrecht Dürer interpreted the different roles of the modern artist and placed himself in the middle of the scene through an exceptional series of self -portraits. The documentary starts from here Albrecht Dürer, The Mystery of Self -PortrahesDedicated by Frédéric Ramade on the Nordic Renaissance master.

In the air on Tuesday, April 8 at 7.30 pm, the story of Ramade is investigating an apparent mystery: how did the son of a goldsmith from Nuremberg from Nuremberg the undisputed master of the German Renaissance? His skills are already clear at the age of 13 when he made the first self -portrait and corrected the distortion caused by the mirrors of that time, somewhat convex with congenital capacity. He works in Silver Punta, a Virtuosi technique that does not allow any mistakes or repentance. Since then fate Dürer seems to have been marked. It is aimed at the engraving, a technique that was invented only fifty years earlier, making it easy to reproduce the works and let them travel. In this way his masterpieces will cross Europe, the Middle Ages left just between epidemics, political turbulence and religious changes.

From the Museums of Nuremberg to the Albertina van Vienna, from the Alte Pinakothek in Munich to the University of Zurich, in the documentary Eminent specialists in Dürer Commentary with works that are able to fascinate us with their strange beauty today.

The story of Mondriaan in a document film
“What do I want to express with my work? Nothing but what every artist is looking for: reaching harmony through the balance between relationships between lines, colors and surfaces. Only in a clearer and stronger way” wrote Mondriaan in the Neoplasticism manifesto from 1918. Yet his style seemed radical revolutionary for contemporaries. How did the Dutch master come to develop it? We will discover it on Wednesday 9 April thanks to the documentary In the study of Mondriaanbroadcast on RAI 5 on 19.20. Written by Stéphane and François Levy-Kuentz in 2024 on the occasion of the 80 years after the artist’s death, the docufilm returns his portrait and inheritance.

After experiencing several styles, Mondrian went down in history to invent a language intended to make school: his colors and geometries expected what the aesthetics of the sixties would have been. Gefilmd in de exacte replica van de Atelier van de kunstenaar op 26 van Rue Du Départ in het Parijse district van Montparnasse, reconstrueert de documentaire zijn evolutie van het initiële realisme tot de mystieke jaren, van de eerste impressionistische werken van de ontwikkeling van de oorspronkelijke versie van de abstractie van de beweging van Stijl, naar de overdracht naar New York waar, slechts twee jaar na de dood, hij eindigde Finally the desired. In the foreground, the ideas about art, the interests and the human dimension of a real pioneer, between the lonely life and far from Boémien in the Paris of the Avant -Garde and the passion for dance and for jazz.

Cimabue, a genius that needs to be rediscovered on the first TV
Pioneer of naturalistic painting, Cimabue is one of the first to represent the world in its real aspect and leave the conventions of the past to eventually return to the eye spaces and volumes with three dimensions, bodies and authentic human emotions. The documentary tells it in the first vision From Cimabue to Giottobroadcast on Wednesday 9 April on RAI 5 at 9.15 pm as part of the program Artificial night. The journey starts from the Louvre rooms, where a great show The recovery of the Majesty – “The founder of Western painting”, according to some historians – and the acquisition of the table of Christ mockedFound in France in 2019 and never exposed before. In the lively context of Tuscan painting in the mid -thirteenth century, From Cimabue to Giotto He tells the revolution of Cimabue and investigates his relationships with the famous student who has for a long time obscured and finally investigates the influence of the master on the great artists of the Renaissance, from Leonardo to Michelangelo and Raffaello.

Art, Nature, Emotion: Edvard Munch is told on the screen
The protagonist until 2 June of a great exhibition in Rome, Munch lands on TV to tell the secrets of his life and art. Therefore appoint before Thursday 10 April at 19.20 on RAI 5: starting at the iconic I screamThe documentary Edvard Munch. A call in nature He will allow us to discover the emotional universe of the Norwegian painter and to investigate how majestic forests, fjords and snow results from the deep north are first reflected in his soul and then in his paintings.

Painter of emotions par excellence, Munch draws out of his own personal experiences to find out a very subjective painting, able to express intense and sometimes even violent feelings, especially in the face of death and love. It often does this because of the colors and shapes of nature, such as the wavy line of a beach or sunlight at sunset. By playing on the different meanings of the word “nature”, the Docufilm follows his artistic and existential journey, first observing his visible nature and then strives for the deep nature of human feelings.

The last Van Gogh, a Enigma broadcast on RAI 5
More than 130 years Tree roots Di van Gogh aroused questions about possible hidden symbols, about where and in what circumstances he was painted. In the summer of 2020, one of the best specialists of the painter, the Franco-Dubgelse man Wouter van der Veen, happily found the landscape that inspired the photo, probably made on the day of the suicide of his author. A story to discover on Friday 11 April in the documentary The mystery of the last Van Goghbroadcast on Rai 5 to 18.50.

Directed by Mathilde Deschamps Lotthe and produced by Arte France with Christie Molia, the film has been made a study of small instructions and major coincidences, with the participation of some of Van Gogh’s greatest experts. A starting point, a random discovery: “I was archiving an old postcard,” says Van der Veen, “when my gaze was attracted to a detail that portrays exactly the same tribes and is displayed on the photo”. The early twentieth century postcard portrays a landscape of Auvers-sur-Oise, a few steps from the pension in which the painter spent his last few weeks. “Van Gogh has never painted anything without clearly saying anything. Like in an open book, he wrote his last message here,” he still argues the scholar. And when Tree roots Was it testing a work? An atypical painting, almost abstract, able to tell the last hours of life than this brilliant and tortured artist better than any story?

From Picasso to Modigliani, the Docufilm to see on Sky Arte
In this second week of April the programming of Sky Arte is in the name of the masters of the twentieth century. After a jump in the last Tuesday 8 with six episodes of the series Grand Tour – Journey to Italy (from 8.45 pm) invites the evening of Thursday 10 spectators for a complete immersion in the world of Pablo Picasso with documentaries Man Ray and Picasso – Journey to the French Riviera (20.10) E Picasso – a rebel in Paris. History of a life and a museum (21.15). However, it will be broadcast at 10.55 am Hopper: an American love storyTo get to know one of the most famous and enigmatic American painters up close.

Friday, April 11, we will return to Montparnasse with the Docufilm Curprised ModiglianiCinematographic journey to the art and the life of Modì shot in 2020 for the centenary of his disappearance.

And finally, an exclusive virtual visit to one of the most interesting exhibitions of this season: in the rooms of the Museum of San Domenico di Forlì the Exhibition Project The artist’s portrait. In the Narcissus mirror. The face, the mask, the selfie It turns on the history of the authorization, an artistic genre of relatively recent origin that had its golden season in the twentieth century (Friday 11 to 17.45).

Also read:
• The art agenda – in the cinema
• In the origin of the Italian painting. From the Louvre a new look at Cimabue
• The inner cry of Munch arrives in Rome
• From the Selfie mask. The history of the self -portrait can be seen in Forlì