Turner -
simon schama's power of art (hd)

Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhoon Coming On ("The Slave Ship") (1840) May, 1840. Turner brings seven paintings to exhibit at the Royal Academy Annual Exhibition, and faces the biggest critical onslaught of his life. The target of the most poisonous attacks is The Slave Ship: at once allegory, history and seascape, an explosion of scarlet and gold, lost in the ocean between history and fantasy. For contemporaries, it is "a kitchen accident", "a detestable absurdity"; Turner's art has abandoned what it is supposed to do - to look like things. Freed from the job of describing the mere look of the world, Turner shows that art can now go to the heart of the matter, to take the viewer right into the eye of the storm.

Duration: 50 minutes and 9 seconds

Episode Number: 105

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About 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.