Smart Secrets of Great Paintings — Season 1, Episode 11: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897, Paul Gauguin
Documentary • 26 min • 1 season, 24 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
About Smart Secrets of Great Paintings
The great works of the past portray abundant testimonies, and are imbued with secrets and are teeming with mysteries. Beneath the surface of the painting, details awaken, to recount the spirit of the times and the vagaries of History, such as wars, revolutions, economic transformation, scientific discovery, beliefs and schools of thought.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Moneylender and his Wife (1514) by Quentin Massys
- E2The Artist's Studio (1855) by Gustave Courbet
- E3Bathers at Asniers (1884) by Georges Seurat
- E4Las Meninas (1665) by Diego Velazquez
- E5The Wedding at Cana (1563) by Paolo Veronese
- E6The Martyrdom of Saint Appolonia (1461) by Jean Fouquet
- E7A Lady in Her Bath (1571) by Francois Clouet
- E8Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France and Her Children (1787) by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- E9Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834) by Eugène Delacroix
- E10Colorful Life (1907) by Wassily Kandinsky
- E12Temptations of St. Anthony, 1501, Hieronymus Bosch
- E13Western Port in Frankfurt am Main, 1916, Ludwig Kirchner