The first half of this program shows how painters have expressed their ideas about relationships between people, vice, injustice, human folly and achievement. It includes examples of social criticism by Goya, Hogarth, Rivera, David and Shahn. The painter as visionary is examined in the works of Blake, Bosch, Dali, de Chirico and Klee in the second section.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
303594
Language
English
Subject categories
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art and society
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists
Crafts & Visual Arts → Dali, Salvador, 1904-1989
Crafts & Visual Arts → Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters
Crafts & Visual Arts → Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
People → Dali, Salvador, 1904-1989
People → Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)