Great art has dreadful manners "" Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power and whole point of art. ""The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe charm and beguile but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality..."" With the same disarming force The Power of Art propels us on an eye-opening breathtaking... odyssey zooming in on eight extraordinary masterpieces from Caravaggio's David and Goliath to Picasso's Guernica. Jolting us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who under extreme stress created something unprecedented altering the course of art forever [show more]
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The polite chin-stroking world of art is laid asunder by &39;A History Of Britain&39; writer Simon Schama&39;s uniquely passionate view Best known for his often controversial views on history Simon Schama is also a professor of Art History and has as passionate a view of one as the other This series aims to explore the idea that art and he uses fine art as an example is taken far from its original purpose when it&39;s hung it in hushed staid galleries Schama posits that good art is supposed to shake you grab you by the throat and smack you in the chops rather than pet your hair and tickle your chin &39;Great art has dreadful manners&39; he says
The polite, chin-stroking world of art is laid asunder by 'A History Of Britain' writer Simon Schama's uniquely passionate view. Best known for his often controversial views on history, Simon Schama is also a professor of Art History and has as passionate a view of one as the other. This series aims to explore the idea that art, and he uses fine art as an example, is taken far from its original purpose when it's hung it in hushed, staid galleries. Schama posits that good art is supposed to shake you, grab you by the throat and smack you in the chops rather than pet your hair and tickle your chin. 'Great art has dreadful manners,' he says.
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