SIMMONS ART Presents SEASON TWO:
Special Edition Artist-Length DVD Set
Season Two of Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop
Emmy® Nominated PBS Series
Special Edition Artist-Length DVD Set Season Two of Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop
6 New 2-hr Programs on 4 Dual-layer DVDs
(over 11 hours of Programming)
This Special Edition Artist-Length DVD Set
Season Two of Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop was created for Kickstarter Campaign to raise funds to produce our Second Season. We have a limited number of these 2-DVD sets still available.
Learn how Turner, Sargent, Guardi and Whistler painted the magic of Venice, how Winslow Homer painted the tumultuous seas of Maine, and the Hudson River painters explored the intimate streams of New England.Season Two of Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop is the second season of the innovative, lively and entertaining Emmy® and CINE Golden Eagle Award winning PTV series that takes you to the actual locations in Italy and the United States that inspired the great artists J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Francesco Guardi, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, and the Hudson River artists to create some of their most iconic works. The eight half-hour programs of Season Two explore the lives, techniques and inspiration of these master artists through a combination of discussion and demonstration in the beautiful locations that inspired them. Inspired by David Dunlop’s infectious enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge, Landscapes Through Time combines art, history, travel, philosophy, science and technique to explore the lives and art of a wide range of different artists, creating a new way for artists as well as a general television audience to experience and visually participate in the power and magic of the act of artistic creation.
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30 Second Video of Season Two: Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop
Program 201 -J.M.W. Turner’s Visions of Venice (105 minutes)
J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) traveled to Venice three times and his experimentation in Venice served as a sensual catalyst in his work. David demonstrates Turner’s watercolor techniques in a sketch of Santa Maria della Salute, overlooking the Grand Canal. He then paints an oil painting overlooking the Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, the same scenes immortalized in many of Turner’s transcendent paintings.
Program 202 – Francesco Guardi’s Venice (126 minutes)
David creates a pen and ink drawing and wash of the beautiful baroque church, Santa Maria della Salute, discussing Francesco Guardi’s (1712-1783) use and understanding of perspective. He then travels to Guardi’s home district of the Cannaregio and paints an oil demonstration of the same canal scene painted by Guardi and Canaletto, exploring Guardi’s spirited brushstrokes and expressive skies.
Program 203 – John Singer Sargent’s Venice (131 minutes)
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) travels to Venice over a 40-year period and paints dazzling plein air watercolor landscapes, turning away from portraiture. David demonstrates a watercolor at the famous Piazza dei Giovanni e Paolo, the same scene painted by Sargent. We then travel across Venice to a balcony overlooking the bacino, the mouth of the Grand Canal, where a younger Sargent painted a view of the bacino and the street below, the Riva degli Schiavoni.
Program 204 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Venice (120 minutes)
David travels to three magical Venetian locations that inspired provocative, iconoclastic artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) during his transformative trip in 1879-1880. David demonstrates a drypoint on a copper plate alongside the Rio de San Barnaba, a pastel on the Giudecca overlooking the broad panorama of Venice, and a quick oil sketch of the Basilica di San Marco in the twilight, fading rapidly to night.
Program 205 – Winslow Homer’s Seas at Prouts Neck, Maine (85 minutes)
David travels on the rocky shores of Prouts Neck, Maine, where the famously enigmatic Winslow Homer (1836-1910) lived for the last 27 years of his life and painted some of his most recognizable, theatrical, and iconic seascapes. Battling the wind, David paints an evocative watercolor at the location of the famed Cannon Rock, and an oil sketch of the rocks and turbulent sea in front of Homer’s studio.
Program 206 – The Woodland Streams of the Hudson River Painters (105 minutes)
David travels to a woodland stream in New England, following in the footsteps of Hudson River painters such as Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and Asher Durand (1796-1886). David paints a preparatory watercolor of the intimate stream in a setting of dense and dappled foliage, and then creates an oil study of the woods and stream, demonstrating techniques of painting water to convey emotion as well as inspiration.