The 20th Century: The Early Years
Continuing the series in which Edwin Mullins looks at some of the greatest paintings to emerge in Western art from the Renaissance to the present day.
The year is now 1900 and the pace of art begins to quicken, especially in Paris, the melting pot of 'isms', where
Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Futurism chase each other round the cafes of the avant-garde.
There is still a place, too, for the magic of light as in BONNARD'S Nude" against the light, while leger's The wedding (described by Richard Cork ) and MONDRIAN'S Flowering apple tree show the imaginative powers of Cubism - all paintings originally shown in the series One Hundred Great Paintings.
Directors CHARLES CHABOT ROSEMARY BOWEN JONES and DENIS MORIARTY
Producers BILL MORTON and KENNETH CORDEN