Art of Spain

[Chiny]

This (http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk5/thu.shtml#thu_art_of_spain) new BBC series, airing next week on BBC4, should be interesting and provoke a UK invasion of Andalucía in the ensuing months.

Those lost souls with TVs that do not pick up BBC could investigate this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/) with a suitable UK anonymising proxy, perhaps even TOR (https://www.torproject.org/) forced to exit at the UK.

[gastephen]

This (http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk5/thu.shtml#thu_art_of_spain) new BBC series, airing next week on BBC4, should be interesting and provoke a UK invasion of Andalucía in the ensuing months.

Oooof! Thanks for the tip. I'll try to make a point of catching that.

Cheers, G.

[ValenciaSon]

In the US, starting some time in February on PBS, we'll have José Made in Spain (http://www.josemadeinspain.com/)

[greytop]

Chiny - Thanks for the TOR link in your signature. I'll give that a try.

[Bettlee]

Thanks for that Chiny, the programme looks like it'll be interesting, will definitely check it out :D

[Jules]

This was one of the best series about Spain (& of course its art) that I have ever seen.

[omeyas]

Agree, I watch very little TV, but have enjoyed this programme, just got the last half hour of the last episode to watch. I'm biased, but I have to say the BBC turn out some excellent programmes, especially compared to the stuff Spanish TV turns out.:thumbs-up:

[Edith]

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[Davehodgo]

a great t.v series. i really enjoyed their focused look at the moorish influence on southern spain.

[Juanjo]

a great t.v series. i really enjoyed their focused look at the moorish influence on southern spain.


I agree, it was the best of the three programmes (although the pedant in me shouted at the TV when he got some historical facts about Al-Andalus wrong :D).

The second programme was an interesting review of Philip II's Spain, Velasquez and El Greco and brought back good memories of El Escorial.

The third was a little disappointing, for me anyway, as it dwelled on the dark side of Goya and ignored his more cheerful rustic stuff and Court work, also it did not display enough of Dalí's early works (the good ones not the later crap by "Avida Dollars" or the influence of Gala. The Buñuel bit was good but failed to discuss the influence of the Buñuel/Dalí/Lorca on the development of Spanish surrealism. He also missed the chance to look at the deadening impact of the Franco regime and especially his ghastly Valle de los Caídos.

Still worth watching again, though!


Juanjo

[luke]

I agree, it was the best of the three programmes (although the pedant in me shouted at the TV when he got some historical facts about Al-Andalus wrong :D).

The second programme was an interesting review of Philip II's Spain, Velasquez and El Greco and brought back good memories of El Escorial.

The third was a little disappointing, for me anyway, as it dwelled on the dark side of Goya and ignored his more cheerful rustic stuff and Court work, also it did not display enough of Dalí's early works (the good ones not the later crap by "Avida Dollars" or the influence of Gala. The Buñuel bit was good but failed to discuss the influence of the Buñuel/Dalí/Lorca on the development of Spanish surrealism. He also missed the chance to look at the deadening impact of the Franco regime and especially his ghastly Valle de los Caídos.

Still worth watching again, though!


Juanjo

I loved all three programmes and I'm a Goya fan. Surely the reason why Andrew focused on Goya's dark works was because those are relevant to Modern art. The nihilistic loss of certainty, loss of religion, the Modern condition.
However, I didn't agree with his thesis on Dali since you can interpret his later works as a precursor to Andy Warhol.