BBC - This Green and Pleasant Land - The Story of British Landscape Painting (2011) 720p HDTV x264 AC3-DMZ
Matroska | 2.606 GiB | 1280x720 | AVC @ 4 000 Kbps | English | AC3 @ 192 Kbps - 2 channels | 1h 28mn
Genre: Documentary
Documentary which takes an eclectic group, including artists, critics and academics, into the countryside to look at how we have depicted our landscape in art, discovering how the genre carried British painting to its highest eminence and won a place in the nation s heart. From Flemish beginnings in the court of Charles I to the digital thumbstrokes of David Hockney s iPad, the paintings reveal as much about the nation s past as they do the patrons and artists who created them. Famous names sit alongside lesser-known works, covering everything from the refined sensibilities of 18th-
century Classicism to the abstract forms of the war-torn 20th
century, with a bit of love, loss, rivalry and rioting thrown in. Contributions come from a cast as diverse as the works themselves, including filmmaker Nic Roeg, historian Dan Snow and novelist Will Self.
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