S1E3:The Mystical North

Art of Spain

14 Feb 200850 minTV-PG

Spain’s turbulent history has shaped its artists – from Francisco Goya and Pablo Picasso to Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon shows how northern Spain has produced some of the most dazzling and iconic art of the modern age. As well as the giants of painting, Graham-Dixon argues that Spanish architecture is the art form taking the nation forward into the new millennium.