This is art — Season 1, Episode 9: Because of (Fear)
Reality, Documentary • 50 min • 2 seasons, 24 episodes
Episode synopsis
Fear: A journey through fear—which confines us within its four walls, preventing us from living—to discover how artists have suffered from it and fought it: from composers (Rachmaninoff, Chopin) to painters (Turner, Cézanne, Masson), from writers (Kafka, Shelley, Polidori, Wilde, Lovecraft, Poe, Stevenson, Stoker), to film directors (Balagueró). The episode shows how the ancient Egyptians' way of exorcising fear is not dissimilar from that of ordinary people today, leading inexorably to the conclusion that fear is only in our heads.
About This is art
Through the beauty of artistic forms, Ramon Gener goes inside the inner workings of human nature. All artists use art to explain their emotions.