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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC 2, devised by Edwin Mullins. He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. The selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with an emphasis on European paintings. He deliberately avoided especially famous paintings, such as Leonardo da Vinci's or John Constable's The Haywain. The series is available on VHS and DVD.

On the basis of the series, Mullins published the book Great Paintings: Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated (1981), which contained about half of the theme groups. A German translation of Mullins' book appeared as 100 Meisterwerke in 1983. In 1985, a second volume came out, only in Germany, which discussed the remaining 50 paintings.

From 1980 through 1994, the West German broadcaster WDR produced a television series called 1000 Meisterwerke (originally named 100 Meisterwerke aus den großen Museen der Welt; "100 Masterworks from the Great Museums of the World"), which was broadcast by ARD, ORF and BR. In each of the 10-minute broadcasts, a single painting was presented and analyzed by an art historian. The Sunday evening broadcasts had five million viewers.

The following is a complete list of the 100 Great Paintings.

1. Georg Baselitz: Allegory of Art

2. Georg Baselitz: The Great Friends (1965)

3. Frits Van den Berghe: Sunday (1924)

4. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Triumph of Death

5. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Hunters in the Snow (Return of the Hunters) (1565)

6. Caravaggio: The Lute Player (c. 1596)

7. Piero della Francesca: The Birth of Christ (around 1480)

8. Francisco Goya: Carnival Scene (1793)

9. Jan Kupecky: Portrait of the Miniaturist Karl Bruni (1709)

10. Reginald Marsh: Twenty Cent Movie (1936)

11. Georgia O'Keeffe: White Calico Flower (1931)

12. Constant Permeke: The Engaged Couple

13. William Turner: Venice - La Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute (1843)

14. Diego Velázquez: Prince Balthasar Carlos (1635)

Great Paintings: Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated, Publ. Edwin Mullins, New York, St. Martin's Press, © BBC, Hardcover, 344 pp., 1981, ISBN 0-312-34636-0

Hundert Meisterwerke aus den großen Museen der Welt, vgs, Cologne, Hardcover

Vol. 1, Publ. Edwin Mullins, translated by Wibke von Bonin, Authors: Anita Brookner, Milton Brown, Hugh Casson, Richard Cork, David Hockney, John R. Hale, John Jacob, Penelope Mason, George Melly, Edwin Mullins, David Piper, Robert Rosenblum, Alistair Smith, 344 pp., 1983, ISBN 3-8025-2161-7

Vol. 3, Publ. Wibke von Bonin, Authors: Friedrich Gross, Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg, Gisela Hoßmann, Konrad Klapheck, Helmut R. Leppien, Renate Liebenwein, Reinhart Lohmann, Karin von Maur, Günter Metken, Edwin Mullins, Karlheinz Nowald, Sigrun Paas, Werner Schmalenbach, Wieland Schmied, Marina Schneede, Uwe M. Schneede, Jürgen Schultze, Evelyn Weiss, Hermann Wiesler, Frank Günter Zehnder, 342 pp., 1987, ISBN 3-8025-2170-6

Hundert Meisterwerke aus den großen Museen der Welt, DuMont creativ Video, Cologne, RM Arts, Munich, 50 minutes each, VHS, 1986

Part 4, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig Cologne, Frank Günter Zehnder, Evelyn Weiss, OCLC 84552969

Part 5, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie Berlin-Dahlem, Karlheinz Nowald, Hermann Wiesler, ISBN 3-7701-2055-8

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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC 2, devised by Edwin Mullins. He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. The selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with an emphasis on European paintings.

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The document is a painting and it is entitled “Café Terrace at Night”.
It was published in 1880 and it was drawn by Vincent Van Gogh.
The painting represents a small town street in a calm evening.
In the foreground we can see a small and snug bar.
It is radiant and full of people, in fact it has many tables outside.
In the middle there are some inhabitants and they’re taking a walk in the city.
In the distance we can see that the street is more dark than in the foreground, in fact in the distance there aren’t any street lamps.
At the top there is a sky full of stars, in the top left-hand corner and in the top right-hand corner there are roofs of houses.
At the bottom there is nothing, only a small road of rocks. On the right there is a famous clothes store.                                    I think that this painting is fascinating and “real” because it represents a daily and simple scene.

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This image is a painting made by Francesco Hayez in 1859, is titled “The Kiss” and represents an episode of youth.
In the painting we see in the middle these two young people kissing, probably in an underground room because that environment he painted gives me that impression.
The colours have been used very well because as we can see they highlight the man and the woman and then behind with darker colours there are painted the stairs and shadows.
On the left there seems to be a shadow that gives me the impression of being a person, maybe someone was spying on them.
In my opinion it is a truly intriguing and realistic painting.

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In this INSPIRING AND ALMOST MESMERISING paintING we can see one MAN mand and one woman standing in the foreground: the man is SERIOUS AND THOUGHTFUL, AND HE IS wearing a white shirt, a PAIR OF jeans and a black jacket. He's also wearing glasses. In his right hand he's holding a pitchfork. Beside him, HIS WIFE LOOKS EXTREMELY SERIOUS AND SHE is standing his wife. : she's wearing a blach BLACK jumper under a browN dress AND ansìd she's looking at her husband.

In the backround we can see a white house and it's probably their HUGE home.

In the TOP right-hand corner there is a red farm with a balck roof. In the TOP left-hand corner there are some trees.
I'm a big fan of Grant Wood WAS A VERY FAMOUS AND EXCELLENT ARTIST, because he can WHO USED TO paint EVERYDAY SCENES  thngs in a very realistic way and make them feel EXTREMELY real especially this paint

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MY FAVORITE PAINTING

The document is a WELL-KNOWN painting taken from CREATED BY one of the most famous French artistS, also known AS THE FATHER OF  for the foundation of Impressionism, and he’s Claude Monet.

This FASCINATING painting is entilted: ”Impression, SOLEIL LEVANT levar del sole” and is one of the most famous paintings by MONET.

It was made CREATED in 1872 and then exhibited at the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris.

The MESMERISING painting represents the sunrise, the beggining BEGINNING of a day.

In the background I can see two people, appering in the dark shadow: the ENTHRALLING scene is set in the port of Le Havre.

In the distance but in front of them I can see a boat coming towards the two, IN between I can see the sun’s rays, and at the top the sun at the top.

On the left there seems to be some trees…

In the foreground is the port and the two boats, from a AND IN THE distance I can clearly see the city, the buildings.

I can easily image that the two in the boat, in the foreground are fisher, a woman and man, while I can deduce that the boat to the right and a little distance from the first, is returning from a night fishing.

I think this painting is REALLY incredible: THE USE OF COLOURS IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE  AND THE PAINTING IS SO INSPIRING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO FEEL ATTRACTED BY THE SCENE  , and as a person passionate about paintings and museums it makes me more happy to talk about it.

The artist is very significant, he has managed to creatE a painting that is both calm and breathtaking, with light colors that perfectly define the sunrise.

What surpriseS me about this painting is the order but also the simplicity of such a famous painting.

I think this MASTERPIECE IS ABSOLUTELY picture it’s amazing.

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This painting is called "The Kiss" it was painted by the painter Gustav Klimt in 1907/1908.

I choose this painting because one month ago I went to Vienna at the Belvedere, especially to see this painting, it is  impressive, fascinating and a little elegant.

This painting in my opinion represent love and tranquility.

In the middle we can see two people one woman and one man, the man is kissing the girl's cheek.
We can also notice, that the main colour of this painting is gold.
The background is also golden!

In the bottom left corner we can see a little bit of nature/grass whit a sort of flowers.

For lots of people this painting is just a painting, nothing more... but for me is a symbol: a symbol of love and happiness.

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The document is a painting created in the 1793 by Jacques-Louis David, a famous and well-known french painter and politician, under the influence of neoclassicism.

The painting is entitled “The death of Marat”.

It is currently owned by “Les Musèes royaux des Beaux-Arts de Beligique” in Bruxelles.

The document rappresents a man, Marat, who’s laying in a bathtub with his head tilted to the left. He takes up more or less half of the space available and the viewer’s attention is clearly drawn to him and to what is has happened to him.

The scene takes place in an unspecified room of an unknown building.

His expression doesn’t seem suffering or sad but unconscious.

His right arm is dead-hanging and he’s holding a pen. Instead with his left hand he’s holding a piece of paper with some writings on it.

Next to the tub there’s a box made out of wood, used as temporary stand to lean on to write or to put things as a support, to reach them easily without struggling.

There’s a wound in his chest with some blood dripping down from there.

Next to his right hand there’s the knife that was used to stab him.

The lightning is poor, is coming from the top right-hand corner and is concentrated exclusively on him.

We can easily assume that he had a lot of enemies, one of them is Charlotte Corday, that in fact killed him while he was laying in his bathtub, because of his skin disease.

That being said we can deduce that he wasn't in a fully healthy state since his skin colour was not normal.

We can tell he was a journalist by the many pieces of paper he wrote on.

In my opinion this is a thought-provoking and timeless painting, since is not only a painting but a craft created to keep the memory of this politician known.

My art teacher explained and analyzed it to the class last year and it’s one of the few pieces of art that really left a permanent mark in me.

My eyes really appreciate how the background is dark and meaningless and does not have any objects that can distract the viewer from the contrast with his skin and the bathtub and the background. That is simply spectacular and paramount to grasp the amount of passion this painting has sealed inside.

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This FASCINATING, MOVING AND INSPIRING painting is entitled "The Death of Venus" : it was made CREATED by the WELL-KNOWN Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi, also called Caravaggio, between 1604 and 1606.
Today it is preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. It represents the MOVING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING moment when Magdalene and the apostles was WERE crying in front of the lifeless body of Mary.

In the foreground I can see Mary dead on the table, and in the bottom right-hand corner Magdalene is sitting in front of her, crying desperately.

In the distance I can also see the apostles weeping around her dead body, especially Paolo and Giovanni.

In the top right-hand corner I notice a red drap that probably covered Mary's body.

The background is dark and bleak (characteristic of Caravaggio's paintings), and the red elements of the painting are highlighted....

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- la classe de danse
- Edgar Degas
- old
- current
- elegant
- confusing
- fascinating
- monochrome
- concrete

This MESMERISING painting is entitled “La classe de danse”. The artist is Edgar Degas. It was published CREATED in 1874, so it can be defined as AN old MASTER painting. It represents FASCINATING girls attending a LIVELY dance class.

In the foreground the are two LITTLE girls turned on their backs, they are listening to their teAcher who is in the middle, a little to the right of the painting. One of these LITTLE girls is scratching her back. In the background there are girls dancing, instead in the distance there are others girls who observe their companions. In the middle, at the top there is a sumptuous door, it’s green and white. All girls are wearing ELEGANT white dance dress.

I think this FASCINATING AND INSPIRING painting is current and concrete, because it represents a daily episode in a dance school. In my opinion, ballet is an elegant AND FORMATIVE discipline, and this painting is so elegant also because dresses of girls are fascinating. It was painted with only 7 colors so I consider it a monochrome painting. It’s also confusing because there are too many girls close to each other.

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This picture PAINTING BY LEONARDO DA VINCI  is ABSOLUTELY impressive, fascinating, original and interesting.

IT WAS CREATED This painting got painted by Leonardo Da Vinci and it was produced in the period of Renaissance period, so around 1472.

The picture contains MASTERPIECE SHOWS two woman WOMEN.

In the background they THERE are some treeS. Behind the trees there is a mountain.

In the bottom left hand corner there is AN ANGEL: SHE IS KNEELING IN FRONT OF THE VIRGIN MARY a woman on her knees doing the peace sign and the one opposite her is sitting down AND PROBABLY LOOKING AT SOME PAGES OF A BOOK OPEN IN FRONT OF HER  and painting a portrait over her

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The document is a painting and it's entitled "Card players". The painting comes from France and the artist of this painting is Paul Cézanne who painted it in 1890. The document represents two cards players who are playing cards on a table in a bar.

The main characters are the two players and we can see them in the foreground; the man on the left is wearing a green jacket and a cap; he's smoking a pipe and he's having the cards in hand. The man on the right is wearing a yellow coat and a cap; he's having the cards in hand. In the middle we can see a table where they're playing. In the distance we can't see anything, because there are many dark colours. The painting isn't realistic because the period is the Post-Impressionism and we can notice that the painting is made of geometric shapes.
We can't see the background clearly and we can deduce that Cézanne wanted to highlight the two players.

In my opinion this painting is really simple but at the same time it's wonderful and I like it. This painting is a little bit dismal because there isn't luminosity. I think it's also interesting because we can see the geometric shapes and they are amazing.

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The painting "I Bari" is the old master from Michelangelo Merisi, also know as Caravaggio. Caravaggio was a famous italian painter of the Baroque era. "I Bari" is a painting done in 1594. It's held by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth

The painting rapresents three men who are playing cards, the men on the right is holding his hand behind his back with the cards, the other hand is placed on the table, I think he's amazed by that fact that the opponent on the left is cheating with help from another, who is in the background, in the bottom-left corner there is a box which I think it holds objects for playing cards.

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St. Michael's Cathedral.  Kyiv, Ihor Kuharskyi (painting)

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St. Michael's Cathedral.  Kyiv, Ihor Kuharskyi (painting)

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THIS PAINTING IS REALLY FASCINATING: IT SHOWS  Composition: free improvisation St. Michael's Cathedral, IN THE city of Kyiv, IN THE nineteenth or early twentieth century.
THE IMAGE IS ABSOLUTELY MESMERISING: it is a colour painting with ENERGETIC strokes, not photographic quality, cartoon, with good drawing, medium size, vertical.

In the foreground of the painting THERE IS is a large ELEGANT street lamp, AND in the background of the photo is the BEAUTIFUL city and the IMPOSING Main Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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This painting is called "breakfast on the grass",Manet painted it in the 1863,and it's now kept in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This painting depicts two men and a woman, they're in the foreground and they're in a middle of a conversation. We can see they're near a river,the Seine. In the bottom left-hand corner we can see some fruit left in a messy way in the basket,and under we can see some scattered clothes, probably owned by the woman. The two men seems talking of an interesting argument; the woman is the only one that looks in the direction of the artist. The men are wearing modern clothes and the woman is naked. In the background we can see another woman who's bathing in the water, she's wearing a simple nightie. This painting has got a majority of dark colours, especially dark green. In the distance we can see some colored trees and at the top,on the trees,we can see a red tiny bird who's flaying over the people. This painting makes me feel happiness but also solidarity,because of these dark colours,the painting also conveys a slight sadness; but, because of the light in the background,the painting conveys also calm. The painting for me is thought provoking because of the naked woman. But it's also impactful, impressive,stimulating and simple.

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The INSPIRING painting is called "Notcturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" It was CREATED published in 1875 and it was drawn by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

The FASCINATING painting represents The "shooting rocket" mentioned in the title.

The painting is ENTHRALLING AND IT is SHOWS in fact a firework, of which, however, all that remains is a MESMERISING shower of golden sparks that dances in the foggy London night and floods the city with a soft, sulphurous light.

In the background we can see the ATMOSPHERIC black "sky" covered in sparks.

In the middle, there is the rock that creates the explosion and at the bottom we find the laker or the river ...

I honestly don't know why but every time I see this painting I feel that it gives me a lot of calma

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In this ATMOSPHERIC/FASCINATING masterpiece by Botticelli, there IS AN ELEGANT tall woman with long hair,Venus,who’s standing on a shell. On the left there are a man and a woman floating upon the lake. The man has long brown hair and he’s taking in his arms a woman who’s “hugging” him, I presume. (COMMENT?)

On the right there is A woman with a white dress and a red blanket in her arms AND SHE IS trying to give it to Venus, I suppose.

In the background there is a PEACEFUL/CALM lake where some pink flowers, I think lotus, are falling into the this magnificent lake. Near the lake we can also see a wonderful bamboo forest, or maybe there are only olive trees, but i I think that’s bamboo.

I choose this masterpiece because i  I think that this is a really good MESMERISING OLD MASTER, not only for ITS his style, needless to say that it’s spectacular, but also for the kind of “strangeness” MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE that this painting is presenting.
Like if we only think something like “why the man is blowing?” we don’t have a clear answer. Or maybe also “why ISN'T the woman WEARING ANY is without CLOTHES clotes?”
That may be a simple answer for like artist, but not for “normal people” or better, people who are not into this, I mean painting.
I know that all the paintings most of the time are like that, but for some they are and doesn’t make sense, for others, like this for example, they just doesn’t make any sense, but this “nonsense”
BOTTICELLI'S MASTERPIECE CONVEYS has an harmony AND SPLENDOUR that makes the painting more wonderfulLY APPEALING.

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This painting is entiteled ''The girl at the window" and it was painted by Balthus in 1955.

In the middle especially in the foreground as we can see there is a girl who is wearing a red shirt and a black skirt.

The girl is looking out the window at the atmospheric landscape, and seeing her attitude we can deduce that she is upset, worried, fearful or she is just clearing up her ideas

I think there's a great play of brightness between the colors of the painting and this makes me to deduce that he does not want to send a negative message about the girl attitude.

From the background we can understand that it is in a room of the house.

For me the painter is very gifted because he managed to confuse me in being able to translate the message of the painting.

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The document is a painting. This painting is titled: “The Brekfast Of The Rowers”. It was published in 1880-1881 and it is preserved in the Phillips Collection in Washington. It was PAINTED/DRAWN draw by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The place where they meet is called La Fournaise.

The document represents a breakfast with friends, they WHO meet before going to work. They just finished eating, indeed you CAN notice the left-overs on the table. IT , it seems the scene is set in a wealthy environment.

I advice you to buy this painting because it matches wherever you put it.

It is A very harmonious picture, we notice it from how Renoir maneged to find a link with USES coloUrs, with people all wrapped up in the middle of nature.

The work is stunning because it is such a simple painting but also very complex AT THE SAME TIME: the painting is simple because it represents a group of friends who meet to have breakfast before going to work; however it is also complex because it is full of details, such as the table, it is WHICH IS very sumptuos... With the food on the table we notice a general confusion created from glass bottles, elegant glasses of various shapes and sizes. At IN the center of the table there is a lot of fruit of various types like: grapes, apples, pears, pomegranates...

Impressive use of bright and fresh colours, evenly distributed on the canvas.

The painting is very realistic, the image is picturesque because it almost seems that the characters leave the frame. It's astounoling to look at it and immerse yourself in the beauty of the painting that it makes you want to dive in and party with the characters.

If in the foreground the painter has decided to depict these carefree people, in the background he has decided to embellish the picture with the stratospheric features of nature.

The fascinating plants rise upwards, enveloping the cozy room in rich green. Behind, us we can admire the astonishing Senna with the boats sailing peacefully. All this creates a very pleasant feeling of happiness and joy, but also a sense of tranquillity, without worries or anguish.

I love everything about this picture, it makes me explode in stratospheric joy, because I'm seeing all those people having fun makes me really cheerful.