Project Description
The Times
“With documentaries to follow on TV’s treatment of three individual artists, this smartly conceived first instalment of a new archive-based series operates on two levels. Sky Arts’s astute painting pundit, Kate Bryan, uses clips on works by Michelangelo, Botticelli, Velázquez, Rubens, Boucher, Goya, Manet, Picasso and Freud to trace a history of the nude, seen as gratifying the “male gaze” of patrons and punters. She also coolly surveys six decades of BBC offerings on the same theme — a sorry chronicle of men discussing men depicting naked women, from which only John Berger emerges well.”