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Century of Art |
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Painters, sculptors and those who knew them discuss their work
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The
Father of Conceptual Art
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French
artist Marcel Duchamp questioned nineteenth century ideas about
art and aesthetic beauty in extraordinary ways. In 1917 he sent
a porcelain urinal to an exhibition in New York, entitled 'Fountain'.
It caused a sensation, and was withdrawn from the exhibition
- but since that moment, art has never been the same again.
Calvin Tomkins was a friend of Duchamp.
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On
Holiday with Picasso
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Tony
Penrose spent much of his childhood and adolescence staying
with Pablo Picasso in the South of France. His parents - the
painter Roland Penrose and war photographer Lee Miller - were
friends of the artist. Picasso was to paint Lee four times.
Tony Penrose recalls the artist, his studio, and life at La
Californie - Picasso's house in the South of France.
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Life
with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
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Guadalupe Rivera Marin is the daughter of the famous Mexican
painter and muralist - Diego Rivera. She relives the atmosphere
of the Blue House, where her father and she lived with his second
wife the artist Frida Kahlo. She remembers entertaining those
who made the pilgrimage to Mexico City to see her parents -
from Leon Trotsky to Nelson Rockefeller, and Charlie Chaplin
to Sergei Eisenstein.
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Painting
Through the Cultural Revolution
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Huang Yongyu has been an artist all his life - inspired by the
wood carvers he used to pass on his way to school in Hunan Province
in China in the 1920s. He was a famous and feted artist during
the 1950s, but became an outcast during the Cultural Revolution
and was imprisoned many times. He says that as an artist he
also has a responsibility to express his political views through
painting, whatever the consequences.
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A
Sculptor of Africa
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El Anatsui is a sculptor who was born in Ghana, but has spent
most of his life in his adopted country of Nigeria. He represented
Africa at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 and has had exhibitions
all over the world. In his sculpture, he transforms the ancient
signs and symbols of African art and its colonial heritage to
make something new.
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