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Matisse

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Journalist Alastair Sooke sets out to discover just how much the artist Henri Matisse has influenced our modern lives, and explains why his art is considered so great.

Journalist Alastair Sooke sets out to discover just how much the artist Henri Matisse has influenced our modern lives.

Tracing the biography of this fascinating artist, and travelling through France, America and Russia, the programme explores some of the painter's greatest works. Sooke explains why Matisse's art is considered so great and also looks at how Matisse's brilliant use of colour and simplification of form continues to inspire illustrators, designers and of course artists today.

Acknowledging the debt the famous couturier Yves St Laurent owed the painter, Sooke also talks to British designers Sir Paul Smith and Tricia Guild about their passion for Matisse, he travels to Utrecht to discover how even children's character Miffy the rabbit owes its origin to art, and reveals how logos and images as diverse as Apple's iPod advertising and even the 2012 Olympic logo are inspired by the modern master.

The programme is second in a series looking at four great modern artists: Warhol, Matisse, Picasso and Dali.

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Tue 27 Sep 2011 01:30
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    Modern masters

  • Prefuse 73

    Plastic

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    Queremos Paz

  • Plaid

    Pino Pomo

  • Alicia Keys

    Piano and I

  • Ulrich Schnauss

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  • David Teller

    Magical Wonder

  • Paul Mottram

    Strum und Drang

  • Leftfield

    Melt

  • David Arnold & Paul Hart - Andromeda

  • Hot Chip

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    House of Cards

  • Mahala Rai Banda

    Mahalageasca

  • Youmni Rabii

    Gouli je t'aime

  • Richard Hawley

    Last Orders

  • Gotan Project

    Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)

  • Alicia Keys

    Empire State of Mind

  • Massive Attack

    Small Time Shot Away

  • Radiohead

    Nude

  • Sheridan Tongue

    Disappearing Time

  • Four Tet

    First Thing

  • Tom Haines & Christopher Branch - Delicate Beauty

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    I See You Baby

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    Schottkey 7th Path

  • Ulrich Schnauss

    Gone Forever

  • Butcher the Bar

    Leave This Town

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  • Brian Eno

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Presenter Alastair Sooke
Presenter Alastair Sooke
Producer Lucy Van Beek
Producer Mark Halliley
Producer Mark Halliley
Director Mark Halliley
Director Mark Halliley

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