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This Is the Modern World

Art of France Series 1
Episode 3 of 3

In the final episode of the series, France is changing at a helter-skelter pace and its angry young artists are reinventing how to paint.

In the final episode, Andrew begins with the impressionists. He plunges into one of the most wildly creative periods in the history of art, when France was changing at a rapid pace and angry young artists would reinvent how to paint, finding their muses in the bars, brothels and cabarets of belle epoque Paris and turning the world of art on its head. Monet, Degas and friends launched a febrile conversation about the role of painting in the modern world that would pave the way for just about every modern art movement of note, from the cubists to the Fauves, from the surrealists to the existentialists and from conceptual artists to the abstract expressionists.

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Tue 6 Aug 2024 03:00
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    The Cure

    Pictures of You

  • 00:01

    The Jam

    The Modern World

  • 00:03

    Pierre Terrasse, Mariana Toutziarakis

    Petit Bal

  • 00:07

    Throbbing Gristle

    Walkabout

  • 00:15

    Radiohead

    Glass Eyes

  • 00:36

    Radiohead

    Ful Stop

  • 00:51

    Joy Division

    Atmosphere

  • 00:52

    Joy Division

    Atmosphere

  • 00:53

    Joy Division

    Atmosphere

  • 00:58

    Robert Chauvigny & Γ‰dith Piaf

    Non, je ne regrette rien

Credits

Presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon
Production Manager Imogen Stringer
Executive Producer Basil Comely
Series Producer Silvia Sacco
Director Tim Dunn

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