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Alastair Sooke
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Art critic Alastair Sooke on how the piano has infused and informed painting and the arts. Part of the Piano Season on the BBC.
In the first of five essays about the piano, art critic Alastair Sooke explores how the piano has infused and informed the fine art world since its first entries onto the world stage over two centuries ago. Nineteenth century artists including Renoir, Matisse, Klimt, Whistler, Cezanne and Van Gogh all painted pianos, and in the twentieth century, Dali too was notoriously infatuated with the piano in all its surreal, Freudian glory.
First broadcast in September 2012.
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Mon 15 Jul 2013
22:45
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