Seventh Art Productions (Firm)

Given complete and unprecedented access to the treasures of Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, this is a major new film about one of the world's greatest and most popular artists. ..This film provides viewers with the moving and inspiring experience of seeing Vincent's iconic masterpieces close-up on the screen. New insights and interpretations are offered by specially invited guests including V. Willem van Gogh, great-grandson of Theo van Gogh, and contemporary...

Pierre Auguste Renoir is known and loved for his impressionist paintings of Paris which rank among the world's favourites. Renoir, however, grew tired of this style and changed course. ..This stunning film - based on the remarkable Renoir collection at Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation - explores the artist's new approach. These later works still provoke extreme reactions - some people are repulsed by them and others seduced. ..Two 20th century titans-...

A unique opportunity to see up close a remarkable collection of great Rembrandt works. This once-in-a-lifetime event hosted by London's National Gallery, in collaboration with Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is a major exhibition of Rembrandt's late masterpieces. Given exclusive access, the film documents this extraordinary show and interweaves Rembrandt's life story with behind-the-scenes at the gallery. This wonderful exhibition film concentrates on the...

For many great artists the garden has long been considered an desirable subject for the expression of colour, light and atmosphere. ..Claude Monet is perhaps the most well-known painter of gardens but other greats such as Van Gogh, Pissarro, Matisse and Sargent all viewed the garden as a meaningful focus for their talents. The work of these great artists, along with many others, feature in a major exhibition, 'Painting the Modern Garden', from The...

Johannes Vermeer [1632 -1675] is a fascinating painter whose life and works are explored here in amazing detail. Filmed in London's National Gallery, New York's Met and other art houses in the USA and the Netherlands, this stunning film explores a collection of Vermeer's finest pieces and delivers a detailed biography of the artist, his life and times. A study of 17th century musical pursuits is skilfully blended with the art of Vermeer and his contemporaries....

Francisco Goya is considered to be the father of modern art. A brilliant observer of everyday life and Spain's troubled past; a gifted portrait painter; and a social commentator par excellence, Goya took the genre of portraiture to new heights. Royals, aristocrats, politicians and friends were subjected to his highly modern approach capturing subtle expressions and gestures. ..Goya's vision and technical brilliance ranks him among the greatest of...

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It's a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this...

For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, brought together Lucian Freud's self-portraits. The exhibition displayed more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turned his unflinching eye firmly on himself. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed...

For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result. Then, something remarkable happened. A new breed of collectors emerged and, before long, they were battling to acquire any work by these new, radical artists that they could find. Amongst them was the visionary Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen. It was an extraordinary moment in art history,...

Described by Picasso and Matisse as "the father of us all" Paul Cézanne is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. During his life Cézanne painted almost a thousand works, two hundred of which were portraits. Despite this proliferation he remains the least well known of the impressionists and perhaps the most misunderstood. Cézanne - Portraits of a Life is based on a 'never-to-be-repeated' exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery,...