A series of 5 films looking at how painters over the centuries have tackled the subject of the window.
The Dutch School
Dutch painters of the 1600s composed their paintings around the light from the window...
The Italians
In Fra Angelico's frescos we can see how he used the window to divide up the canvas rather than as a source of light...
Bonnard
Both Bonnard and Matisse lived in Nice and both did paintings of the well know green French shutters but in very different ways. Bonnard preferring to let the warm fresh air in...
Matisse
Matisse rarely painted much of the what he could see outside the window preferring to be inside with his imagination...
Winifred Nicholson
Winifred Nicholson did away with the glass in the window instead using it as a poetic statement...