Exhibition on Screen is a documentary series that explores the history behind works of art. Each episode focuses on a particular iconic piece, revealing the background that led to its creation and the incredible stories that followed it.
39 films
Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London
2012
Manet: Portraying Life
2013
Munch 150
2013
Vermeer and Music
2013
Matisse
2014
Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
2015
Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
2015
The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them
2015
Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood
2016
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
2016
Renoir: Reviled and Revered
2016
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
2016
I, Claude Monet
2017
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
2017
Michelangelo: Love and Death
2017
Canaletto & the Art of Venice
2017
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
2017
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
2018
Watching
Degas: Passion for Perfection
2018
Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2018
Young Picasso
2019
Van Gogh & Japan
2019
Leonardo: The Works
2019
Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
2019
Easter in Art
2020
Frida Kahlo
2020
Sunflowers
2021
Raphael Revealed
2021
The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin
2021
Pissarro: Father of Impressionism
2022
Hopper: An American Love Story
2022
Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman
2023
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
2023
Tokyo Stories
2023
Klimt & The Kiss
2023
John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger
2024
My National Gallery, London
2024
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
2024
Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
2025
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Sometimes frustrated by his own failings, Degas was consumed by obsessive principles and failing eye sight but his determination to capture everyday life was evident in every mark he made. Never fully satisfied, many of Degas’ drawings and sculptures were kept in private during his lifetime but, now through close examination, they can be seen as some of the most beautifully detailed and expressive works in the modern era. Using written accounts by friends and commentators, and the narration of letters written by Degas himself, this film reveals a more complex truth behind one of the most influential French artists of the late 19th-century and serves as an exploration of the complex workings of Degas’ artistic mind.
