Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop - Season One and Season Two

David takes us through the tumultuous, penultimate year of van Gogh's life - 1889, spent in the asylum of St. Paul de Mausole at St. Remy. David demonstrates the expressive palette and brushwork of van Gogh while describing van Gogh's uniquely spiritual and impassioned intentions for painting and reveals his connections to Dutch landscape painting and Impressionist color. Remastered

David visits the enchanting village of Giverny, France, the last home of Claude Monet (1840- 1926). David explores the evolution of Impressionism to its later stage towards expressionism. David demonstrates Monet's loose brushwork, complementary color, and sensual delight as he paints Monet's carefully cultivated waterlily garden as his inspiration. Remastered

Travel with David to locations of Paul Cezanne's (1839-1906) natural inspiration near Aix en Provence, including his studio. Overlooking Mont Sainte-Victoire, David demonstrates Cezanne's strategies - from sketch to watercolor to oil, discussing Cezanne's insights into acts of visual perception. He discusses Cezanne's difficulties and his ultimate success - as the father of Modernism. Remastered

David visits the ancient olive grove overlooking Nice and the Mediterranean at Pierre Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) home/studio at Les Colettes in the South of France. David traces Renoir's difficult but ultimately successful quest for putting clean and strong color into soft and suggestive shapes and paints the olive groves with the sea in the distance. Guest Artist - Max Dunlop Remastered

David follows in the footsteps of the American artists who escaped the Parisian heat and formed an art colony in Giverny in the 1880-1920s, drawn by the creative magnetic influence of Claude Monet. David will explore the similarities and differences between French and American Impressionism as he paints on the hillside above Giverny. Remastered

David follows the footsteps of JMW Turner (1775-1851) to the harbor of Honfleur, France on the dramatic Normandy Coast. David explores Turner's remarkable innovations in his watercolor technique while painting a demonstration painting of the Lieutenance in Honfleur's distinctive skyline. Guest Artist - Sarah Meyerhoff. Remastered

David introduces the majestic white cliffs of Etretat on the dramatic Normandy Coast and their role in the inventive periods of French painting from the romanticism of Delacroix, the realism of Courbet to the Impressionism of the late 1860's through the 1880's. He paints this iconic silhouette while comparing the styles and visions of Etretat's artists. Guest Artist - Loretta Dillman. Remastered

David takes us to Old Lyme, CT, a popular artist colony in the early 1900's, and visits the Florence Griswold Museum. David paints a garden scene and demonstrates how American Impressionists, learning the new trends from the French Impressionist avant-garde, created a sensual experience of color, texture, and movement from a palette of complementary colors. Guest Artist - Vicki Smith. Remastered

David Dunlop visits the Montclair Art Museum and explores the paintings of George Inness (1825-1894), his quest for a union of spirituality and paint, and his sources of classical inspiration in a tumultuous historical period. David then sets up his easel on a hillside overlooking New York City and demonstrates the techniques and palette of Inness. Guest Artist - Dana Goodfellow. Remastered

David visits Contentment Island, CT where John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872) lived and painted after the American Civil War. David will outline Kensett's evolution from a Hudson River Artist-Explorer to an American Luminist painter. Near Kensett's studio, David will paint the same serene quality of light and weather as Kensett painted. Guest Artist - Kathy Draper. Remastered

David visits the top of Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskill Mountains and paints a demonstration painting of an iconic scene painted by Hudson River artists trying to capture the awesome immensity and sublime effects of nature. David discusses Thomas Cole (1800-1848), the father of the Hudson River painters, and Sanford Gifford (1823-1880). Guest Artist - Loretta Dillman. Remastered

David Dunlop visits the Lieutenant River in Old Lyme, CT, a popular artist colony in the early 1900's. He paints a river scene reminiscent of the painting by Childe Hassam and examines the distinctly American style of Impressionism that retained more of a basis of drawing and a reliance on classical forms - all inherited from the Hudson River painters. Guest Artist - Bob Johnson. Remastered

David visits Olana, Frederic Church's Persian-inspired home in the Hudson River Valley, and paints the expansive vista overlooking the Hudson River. He discusses the Hudson River Painters (popular from 1825 to 1875), who were profoundly influenced by European traditions and gave Americans their first pictorial sense of national identity. Guest Artist - Lynn Franklyn-Henry. Remastered