S6 E2 • Gustav Klimt: The Kiss

One of the most sensual of paintings, achieved in the extraordinary intellectual climate of turn of the century Vienna by a male artist of prodigious sexual appetite. Yet it may portray the shift of sexual power towards the female.

Première diffusion : 30 avril 2005

S6 E3 • Salvador Dalí: Christ of Saint John of the Cross

Salvador Dali’s strange crucifixion is often called the greatest religious painting of the 20th century. Yet its artist was a notorious blasphemer some of whose work had outraged the Catholic Church. The Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali is the first of two extraordinary crucifixions painted by Dali in the early 1950s. The painting is based on a ‘cosmic dream’ Dali is said to have had, in which the nucleus of the atom was a figure of Christ himself. The painting offers a surrealist view of the crucifixion of Christ, and is based on a drawing by the 16th century Spanish friar Saint John of the Cross. But Dali’s vision was somewhat unique, using an unusual artistic perspective in which Christ is seen from above. His Christ of St. John of The Cross was inspired by a weird mix of Spanish mysticism and nuclear physics, with his Christ being modelled by a Hollywood stuntman. It’s also a masterpiece of painting technique.

Première diffusion : 11 juillet 2006

S6 E1 • Jan van Eyck: The Annunciation

Première diffusion : 24 décembre 2006

S6 E2 • Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Census At Bethlehem

Première diffusion : 25 décembre 2006

S6 E3 • Paul Gauguin: God's Child

Première diffusion : 26 décembre 2006