Episode of Series “Romantic vs classic art”.
Ingres was a pure artist, a believer in art for art’s sake. Like Degas, he was obsessed with an ideal of perfect form to which he gave his whole life, but succeeded in capturing it only when the subject was the female nude. Narrated by Kenneth Clark.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
005673
Language
English
Subject categories
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Study and teaching
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Themes, motives
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art appreciation
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art criticism
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Classical
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - France
Crafts & Visual Arts → Classicism in art
Crafts & Visual Arts → Composition (Art)
Crafts & Visual Arts → Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867
Crafts & Visual Arts → Nude in art
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters - France
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Romanticism in art
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Art - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)