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Two Art Programmes on BBC tonight (Monday 5th April)

Posted by Ian Watt on April 5th, 2010

There are two art programmes on the BBC tonight.

Firstly, at 5.10pm on BBC1  there is Painted With Words a drama based on Van Gogh’s letters to his are dealer brother Theo.  “Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.”

Secondly, at 9pm on BBC2 Scotland, there is Bellany – Fire In The Blood a documentary about one of the UK’s greates living artists made by his son Paul, who “takes us on a journey through the hurt and pain of a decimated family at the point of implosion, and unearths many unseen masterpieces along the way.”

Essential viewing, both of them!