Simon Schama's Power of Art (Hd)

Focusing on eight iconic works of art such as Caravaggio's David and Goliath, David's Death of Marat and Picasso's Guernica, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama's unique and personal style transport the viewer back to the intense moments the great works were conceived and born; from the murderous world of baroque Rome; paranoid, revolutionary Paris and the carnage of civil war Spain to the paradox of 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. Simon Schama's Power of Art is the epic story of an unfolding force, a chance to witness the power of the individuals who changed the way we view the world.

Sun, Nov 24	12:00 P.M.	David NH Explore (11.2) The Death of Marat (1793) - When the arch-denouncer and violent journalist Jean-Paul Marat, the 'friend of the people', is stabbed in his bath in July 1793, Jacques-Louis David - painter for the Revolution - promises to make an image of the martyr, for France and for the world.
Sun, Nov 24	1:00 P.M.	Turner NH Explore (11.2) Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhoon Coming On ("The Slave Ship") (1840) May, 1840.
Sun, Dec 15	12:00 P.M.	Van Gogh NH Explore (11.2) Wheat Field with Crows (1890) - "Painting," wrote Van Gogh, "is the raft that can take us safely to shore after the shipwreck.
Sun, Dec 15	1:00 P.M.	Picasso NH Explore (11.2) Guernica (1937) - Picasso - self-indulgent genius, the artist for whom the condition of modern art was to separate itself from politics and history.
Sun, Dec 22	12:00 P.M.	Rothko NH Explore (11.2) Black On Maroon (1958) - New York, 1958. Rothko is commissioned to paint a series of large abstractions for what will be the Seagram Building restaurant - the Four Seasons, mid-town Manhattan.