Arnolfini portrait

(piano playing) Dr. Beth Harris: Here we are at the Museum of Modern Art and we're looking at Mondrian's Composition No. II with Red and Blue and the date is 1929. Dr. Steven Zucker:...

(piano music) Steven: This is Steven Zucker. Juliana: And Juliana Kreinik, and we are discussing Lyonel Feininger's Cathedral of the Future from 1919. Steven: This was one of the primary...

Painting controls you, you don't control painting, actually. What inspires me? Well, a lot of things. First of all, painting itself. The paint, the colours, the material... and of course the...

(piano playing) Man: Here, we're looking at Rogier van der Weyden's Last Judgement which was painted from the late 1440s to early 1450s. It's a very large painting, about 7...

(jazzy music) Male: We're looking here at Rogier van de Weyden's deposition dated to 1435. It's a very large painting. It is about 7 feet tall and 8.5 feet wide, representing...

Are you OK? Are you OK? You fucking arseholes. You fucking arseholes. Are you OK? Are you OK? You fucking arseholes. You fucking arseholes. Are you taking a piss? Are you taking a piss? WHAT? WHAT? Am...

(piano music playing) Steven: We now live in a culture where the new is sought after or the new is something that we want, but in Victorian culture, the new was something that was not always trusted....

(jazzy music) Male: Let's open it up and take a look inside. Female: We're struck immediately by an explosion of rich colors. Male: This is color that's really possible because...

(piano music playing) Steven: She stands against the window, looking out, but really looking in In a terribly gaudy purple nightgown. Out the window, we can see the city of London. We can see the...