麻豆约拍 One
Arts programming on 麻豆约拍 One this summer.
Fake Or Fortune?
Fake Or Fortune? returns for a seventh series with more thrilling cases of art world mystery, intrigue and deception. Presented by international art dealer Philip Mould and journalist and presenter Fiona Bruce, the series will once again be using cutting edge science and compelling provenance research to investigate works of art with a question to answer.
In this series, we have our first French owner who believes he has not one, but two sketchbooks by the renowned French artist Toulouse Lautrec, the prolific painter of Parisian nightlife who grew up in rural south west France. With expert opinion previously ruling otherwise and with no provenance trail whatsoever, Fiona and Philip cross the channel for one of their toughest investigations.
Many of the artworks featured in Fake or Fortune? come with enormous sentimental value and significance for their owners. That’s certainly true of another painting the team investigate - a beautiful still-life entitled Glass Jug with Plates and Pears bought by its owner Lyn as a genuine work by celebrated British artist William Nicholson. Having paid £165,000, it was subsequently questioned as a genuine Nicholson, making it worth just a few hundred pounds. Can Fiona and Philip find the evidence they need to restore this much loved painting to its former status and value? Finally, in a double 'whodunnit?' episode, we are challenged to solve the mysteries behind two rare portraits in Scotland; it’s an investigation that offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of black Britons in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A 5x60 for 麻豆约拍 One. The Executive Producer is Judith Winnan. The film was commissioned by Mark Bell. This is a 麻豆约拍 Studios Production.
imagine...
Presented by Alan Yentob, the 麻豆约拍’s award-winning flagship arts strand returns in the summer, with films including:
imagine… Rose Wylie (w/t)
Very few people would have recognised the name Rose Wylie until this remarkable artist was in her mid 70s. Youthful, playful and unpredictable at the age of 83, this is an artist in her prime.
Her unlikely subjects are drawn from the world around her - from footballers like Wayne Rooney, the gory brilliance of Quentin Tarantino films, memories of her childhood in the London Blitz, to the stuff of everyday life - gas hobs and even her own pet cats Pete and Bunt - to name just two. In Rose Wylie’s universe past and present collide in vivid explosions of colour and form.
Despite starting to paint in earnest in her late 40s after bringing up her family, it’s only in the recent past that her work has been recognised and celebrated by the art world and audiences alike.
Her exuberant large scale canvases are being exhibited, and sold, all over the world. So far this year alone there have been exhibitions in the UK, Spain and America. In her 9th decade, she is hot property.
Alan Yentob meets Rose Wylie and delves into her curious and colourful world to discover how her memories and experiences have helped mould the artist that she is today - and how she transforms the stuff of everyday experience into new and hitherto unseen painterly visions.
The Producer/Director is Lindsey Hanlon.
imagine… Tacita Dean (w/t)
It is unprecedented for an artist to be exhibited simultaneously in three of London’s leading galleries, each one exploring a different theme: landscape, portraiture and still life. But that is the accolade bestowed on the internationally renowned British artist Tacita Dean.
The granddaughter of Basil Dean, who founded Ealing Studios, Tacita is celebrated for her works on analogue film which include beguiling portraits of figures she admires, enigmatic stories and painterly meditations on light.
Alan Yentob joins Tacita Dean in her studio in Berlin to discover how the distinctive character of that city has infused her work, and visits her in LA where she is completing an hour-long film inspired by her older sister Antigone and the Greek myth which bears her name. Her work is poetic, elegiac, and thought-provoking. It’s also the story of her crusade to preserve the medium which inspires her - film.
The Producer/ Director is Katy Homan.
imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster And Me
First shown in 2012, nearly 30 years after her triumphant debut novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with Alan Yentob to the scenes of her extraordinary childhood in Lancashire.
She was adopted and brought up to be a missionary by the larger-than-life Mrs Winterson. But Jeanette followed a different path - she found literature, fell in love with a girl, and escaped to university. Following her memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson tells the story of her breakdown and suicide attempt, her quest to find her birth mother and how the power of books helped her to survive.
The producer/ director was Roger Parsons.
imagine… is a 麻豆约拍 Studios production. The Series Editor is Alan Yentob and Executive Producer is Tanya Hudson (3x60). imagine… is commissioned by Mark Bell.
