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Stories in Painting, Season 2: An Art History of Two Natures
Remembering Western Modern Art and Chinese Bird-and-Flower Painting
Completed · 40 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Chen Danqing: Strolling and Playing Alone through the Landscape of Painting Wang Ruiyun: He Was One That Got Away, Slipping from the Modern Age Back into Antiquity Leung Man-tao: Why Has Landscape Occupied Such a Central Place in Art for Nearly Two Centuries? 1. Painting Again: A World Both Familiar and Strange 2. The Ordinary Is Everyday Life: Manet and Olympia at The Luncheon on the Grass 3. Humanity's Sweet Life: Nothing Happens in the Impressionists' Gardens 4. The Cyclops' Shadow: Redon's Silent Things and the Terrifying World of Gentle Souls 5. The Flowers of Evil: Moreau, an Ancient Reborn, Remembers the Middle Ages 6. Genesis: Gauguin Rewrites Humanity's Revelation in Tahiti, Part I 7. Genesis: Gauguin Rewrites Humanity's Revelation in Tahiti, Part II 8. Genesis: Gauguin Rewrites Humanity's Revelation in Tahiti, Part III 9. He Is My Heart: Flame, Texture, Broken Branches, and Van Gogh 10. How Cézanne Painted: An Apple Is Not an Apple, and an Unfinished Pine 11. A Strange Girl and Two Chaotic Faces: The Transforming World of Picasso the King 12. A World Present: Southern Song Corner Compositions, Stage Lights, and Degas's Parisian Dancers Extra: Why Did a Classical Oil Painting Take Years? The Birth of the Separate Brushstroke 13. The Lucid Realm of Color: Grass Going to Seed, Leaves Trembling, and Matisse Painting 14. From Derain to Avery: The Innocent Fauvist Universe 15. A Languid Midsummer Dream and Absolute Silence Within: Color and Spirit in Bonnard and Rothko Extra: What Makes Vermeer Mysterious? Girl with a Pearl Earring and a Face Not of This World 16. Two American Solitudes: Hopper, Wyeth, and the Discovery of Photography 17. Hymn to Women, Part I: Botticelli's Venus Is Forever Young 18. Hymn to Women, Part II: Symbolism from Puvis de Chavannes to Munch 19. The Body as Sacrifice or Passage: European Still Life from Dürer to O'Keeffe 20. Bamboo Inspires Transcendence and Self-Portrayal: The Most Chinese of Plants 21. Plum Blossoms Inspire Purity: An Ordinary Moon, a Different Flower 22. In Praise of Orchids and the Clues of Zhao Mengfu 23. Chrysanthemums and the Southern Mountain 24. Muqi and the World within Six Persimmons 25. Beyond Time: The Zen Paintings of Liang Kai and Muqi 26. A Glimmer among Plants: Qian Xuan, and Morandi as an Adjective 27. Composition That Never Stops Growing: Walking the Line with Bada Shanren 28. Imperfection and Modern Style: Su Shi and Xu Wei 29. Vases and Flowers: For Ordinary Days 30. Our Fauves: The Not-So-Eccentric Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou 31. Cranes in the East: The Birth of Bird-and-Flower Painting 32. Four Schools Emerge from the Five Dynasties to the Early Song | A New Framework for Bird-and-Flower Painting, Part I 33. What Are True Aristocratic Taste and the Beauty of Song Painting? | A New Framework for Bird-and-Flower Painting, Part II 34. Sky Blue on a Bird's Feathers: The Beauty of Color in Ancient Painting 35. Intoxicated by the Spring Breeze: Republican-Era Modernism and the Sinicization of Oil Painting