Gang of Four 　　Episode 1 of 4 　　Duration: 1 hour 　　Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. In the first episode, Waldemar delves into the back stories of four of the most influential Impressionists - Pissarro, Monet, Renoir and Bazille - who together laid the foundations of the artistic movement. He finds out what social and cultural influences drove them to their style of painting, how they were united and how ultimately they challenged and changed art forever. 　　Waldemar journeys from the shores of the West Indies, to the progressive city of Paris to the suburbs of South London, where these four artists drew inspiration from the cities and towns in which they lived. Whether it be the infamous spot on the river Seine - La Grenouillere - where Monet and Renoir beautifully captured animated people, iridescent light and undulating water or the minimalist, non-sensationalised illustrations of Pissarro's coarse countryside paintings, Waldemar discovers how the Impressionists broke conventions by depicting every day encounters within the unpredictable and ever changing sights around them. 　　------ 　　Painting outdoors 　　Episode 2 of 4 　　Duration: 1 hour 　　Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists by taking us outdoors to their most famous locations. Although Impressionist pictures often look sunny and relaxed, achieving this peaceful air was hard work. Trudging through fog, wind and rain, across treacherous coastal rocks and knee-deep snow, Waldemar shows how the famous spontaneity of the Impressionists is thoroughly misleading. 　　This episode visits the French riverside locations that Monet loved to paint, and where Renoir captured the bonhomie of modern life. Waldemar also introduces a number of technical and practical developments of the age which completely revolutionised Impressionist painting - the invention of portable easels; the use of hog's hair in paint brushes; as well as the introduction of the railway through France. And a scientific demonstration in a Swedish snowdrift explains just how right the Impressionists were to paint brightly coloured shadows in their winter scenes, despite being accused of 'hallucinating' at the time. 　　Finally, Januszczak explains Cezanne's part in the Impressionist story from his dark and challenging early work to his first rural landscapes in France, and then his departure from Paris and separation from the Impressionist gang. 　　------ 　　Painting the People 　　Episode 3 of 4 　　Duration: 1 hour 　　Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the subjects of Degas, Caillebotte and the often forgotten Impressionist women artists. The Impressionists are famous for painting landscape but they were just as determined to paint people. 　　Looking closely at one of Impressionism's finest painters, Edgar Degas, Waldemar reveals how he consistently challenged traditions and strove to record real life as it appeared in the city, from sculpting the contorted movements of horses in motion at the Longchamp race course in Paris to encapsulating extravagant 3D viewpoints of the ballet dancers at the Paris Opera. 　　Waldemar also uncovers the intoxicating haziness the pastel produced in Degas' work when visiting his supplier Pastels de Roche. He also reveals the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Morisot, Bracquemond and Cassatt, three impressive female artists who were eagerly embraced by the progressive movement of Impressionism 　　------ 　　Final Flourish 　　Episode 4 of 4 　　Duration: 1 hour 　　This episode takes a closer look at the late years of Impressionism, using the last show these artists did together as a starting point. 　　Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of Georges Seurat, taking into consideration his academic training at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the artists that influenced him, such as Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes. 　　There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art, and the ways in which the Impressionists were using the new discoveries in light and eyesight to influence their work. A fascinating 'after-image' experiment brings to life the ways in which our own eyes see colour, both in its presence and its absence. 　　Van Gogh's time in Paris, a period very little is known about, is also covered, charting the incredible journey the artist made from his brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light that pervaded his work on the cusp of his departure for the South of France. 　　The film finishes with a revisiting of Monet and his later waterlily paintings in the Orangerie in Paris. Waldemar investigates how a bad case of cataracts was responsible for a seismic shift in his colour palette and his brushstrokes. Spending time with an ophthalmologist, he finds out how old age and a fairly common ailment of the eyes caused Impressionism to shift and become radical again at the turn of the century and into the 20th century

The Impressionists, a three part factual drama for BBC ONE, vividly reconstructs the movement's remarkable story. 　　Based on archive letters, records and interviews from the time, the series records the lives of the artists who were to transform the art world. 　　It is a tale of poverty and of a struggle for recognition, set against a backdrop of war and revolution. 　　But at the heart is the brotherhood of artists, bound by enduring friendships and their commitment to a new type of art which survived rows, rivalries, duels and crises. 　　The story is led by the paintings. Some of the world's most memorable art works are recreated here following the same techniques that the artists used at the time. 　　The series reveals how Monet took just 40 minutes to paint his seminal work Impression: Sunrise in a race against time to capture the light; why Manet's depiction of Olympia, in which his model brazenly gazes out of the canvas, so outraged Parisian society; and how Cézanne's 60 paintings of one mountain, Montagne Saint-Victoire, laid the foundations for cubism and modern art.

Never was a world so completely turned upside down as with the arrival of the Impressionist School. Cezanne, Seurat and Manet all produced inspirational and at the time even controversial works which completely revolutionized thinking in the world of art.

任何艺术家都不能无视印象派的存在，他们率先从几个世纪的停滞不前中挣脱出来，在笔触和色彩的使用方面，给绘画带来了重大突破。但在成就革命性的技法之前，它首先是一种审美的需求，一种文化的需要。 　　2019年，从未对公众开放过的意大利波拿巴宫（Palazzo Bonaparte）史无前例地敞开大门，迎来这场筹备数年的特展——“神秘的印象派”。莫奈、塞尚、马奈、卡耶博特、毕沙罗、雷诺阿、莫里索、高更等印象派大师此前从未公开面世过的50幅私人收藏作品一经亮相，旋即吸引全世界的目光。通过高清镜头和大银幕的极致视觉体验，观众可以沉浸在这场弥足珍贵的展览中。 　　印象派画家眼中的世界有何神秘之处？自然界的物体、色彩和光影如何转换为他们笔下的梦幻表达？这个流派是如何在短短几年内，从备受嘲笑到收获全世界的追捧？特展的两位策展人——Claire Durand-Ruel（艺术史学家/印象派作画经销商鼻祖 Paul Durand-Ruel 的后裔）和 Marianne Mathieu（玛摩丹美术馆首席策展人）联合多位画家、艺术史学者、历史学家贡献的专业讲解，有助于深入了解印象主义运动——这场艺术史上最具争议的运动是如何历经坎坷，获得最后的荣光。

卢梭1844年生於法国西北部的拉瓦尔市，幼年家境并不富裕，1871年进入巴黎市政府海关处担任收税员，而终其一生，就是担任这个安份的公务员；他的闲暇嗜好，就是创作绘画，曾经获准在罗浮宫美术馆临摹。曾经参加官方的沙龙展，却未曾入选；但他仍自得其乐的不断创作。 　　卢梭於 1855 年从巴黎一所收费站中退休后，始全力作画，因此博得「关税员」的称号。别人常把他归为「原始的」、「素人的」、「周日画家」之列，他却光明正大地认为自己是不折不古的专业画家。 　　1891年起常至植物园观赏温室里的热带景物，创作了许多充满幻想式的作品，如「睡眠中的吉普赛女郎」、「梦」等，1893年退休之后，生活清苦，却全心投入绘画创作；他充满想像的作品，却获得了诗人的赞赏及毕加索等前卫画家所推崇。 　　卢梭画的主题包罗万象，除了巴黎市郊，还有手法率真直接的人像，瑰丽的寓言性作品，花卉、尤其是一批富异国情调的大幅幻想式作品，这些作品是他常逛巴黎的公园、植物园、动物园所激发出来的。 　　卢梭创作热衷于创造一个幻想的世界，他的艺术很难归到哪一派，但他的画法属超现实主义。他似乎总是生活在一个梦幻的世界，这种与生俱来的爱幻想的天真性格，在他的日常生活中也充满天真烂漫，他的画具有原始童话般的魅力。

卡米耶·毕沙罗（Camille Pissarro，1830年7月10日-1903年11月13日），法国印象派大师，生于安的列斯群岛的圣托马斯岛，1903年于巴黎去世。 　　在他去世前一年，远在塔希提岛的高更写道：“他是我的老师。”在他去世后三年，“现代绘画之父”塞尚在自己的展出作品目录中恭敬地签上“保罗·塞尚，毕沙罗的学生”。 　　卡米耶·毕沙罗，在印象派诸位大师中，毕沙罗是唯一一个参加了印象派所有8次展览的画家，可谓最坚定的印象派艺术大师。毕沙罗是始终如一的印象派画家，是印象派的先驱，有印象派“米勒”之称。

01：保罗·塞尚 Paul Cézanne 　　02：保罗·高更 Paul Gauguin 　　03：皮尔·波纳尔 Pierre Bonnard 　　04：莫迪利亚尼 Amedeo Modigliani 　　05：乔治·鲁奥 Georges Rouault 　　06：埃贡·席勒 Egon Schiele 　　07：埃德加·德加 Edgar Degas 　　08：康定斯基 Kandinsky 　　09：居斯塔夫·莫罗 Gustave Moreau 　　10：保罗·希涅克 Paul Signac 　　11：卡米耶·毕沙罗 Camille Pissarro 　　12：爱德华·马奈 Édouard Manet 　　13：索尼娅·德劳内 Sonia Delaunay 　　14：保罗·克利 Paul Klee 　　15：费尔南·莱热 Fernand Léger 　　16：苏珊娜·瓦拉东 Suzanne Valadon 　　17：克洛德·莫奈 Claude Monet 　　18：爱德华·蒙克 Edvard Munch 　　19：亨利·德·图卢兹-洛特雷克 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 　　20：文森特·梵高 Vincent van Gogh 　　21：安东·柯里格 Anton Kolig 　　22：奥古斯特·雷诺阿 Auguste Renoir 　　23：贝尔纳·布菲 Bernard Buffet 　　24：贝尔特·莫里索 Berthe Morisot 　　25：爱德华·维亚尔 Edouard Vuillard 　　26：古斯塔夫·克里姆特 Gustav Klimt 　　27：亨利·芒更 Henri Manguin 　　28：胡安·米罗 Joan Miró 　　29：莫里斯·德·弗拉芒克 Maurice de Vlaminck 　　30：莫里斯·郁特里洛 Maurice Utrillo 　　31：奥托·迪克斯 Otto Dix 　　32：拉乌尔·杜菲 Raoul Dufy 　　33：费迪南德·霍德勒 Ferdinand Hodler 　　34：谢尔盖·波利雅科夫 Serge Poliakoff 　　35：玛丽·卡萨特 Mary Cassatt