Episode list

About a ghost that haunts a work by French painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). This is Jeanne Duval, a black woman whose real name we do not know, muse and companion of the poet Charles Baudelaire. Erased from the painting by Courbet himself, Jeanne has returned to the surface as if the paint pigments could not support her erasure.

Follows the story of Gérard Philipe built exclusively on archive footage, on celebration of his 100th birthday anniversary.

A journey about the search for the identity of the most famous contemporary African-American artist and one of the most relevant painters of the 20th century, Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting, "The Scream", painted in 1893, has become the symbol of existential anguish. He obsessively sought to express his most violent emotions in the face of death and love, bringing them together in a great whole, the "Frieze of Life". Nature, in perpetual movement, the bearer of vital momentum, helped him to exalt his anguish of living through its colors and undulating lines.

In the context of the major exhibition dedicated to her in 2022 at the Musée d'Orsay, the film invites the general public to rediscover Rosa Bonheur, the most famous French painter of the 19th century.

The actress Maria Casarès and the writer Albert Camus have lived an intense passion that reveals their correspondence. From 1944, the year they met, until Camus' death in 1960, they exchanged more than 900 letters. These letters shed light on a free woman, incredibly modern, in love with truth and the absolute, who, throughout her life, was marked by the quest for her own identity and that of the theater. These letters also reveal the voice of a loving and fragile Albert Camus.

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

Quel est le dernier tableau peint par Van Gogh, et que nous dit-il sur les derniers jours de celui-ci ?

Ten years of hard work have made the young Arod Quartet one of the most brilliant of its generation. For it takes years to blend together 4 individual talents into one. Their repertoire is ranging from Mozart to Bartok, Debussy to Kurtág.

Nicknamed the "king of the crazies", Pierre Dac (1893-1975), the man behind the weekly magazine "L'Os à Moelle", was also a poet, self-styled philosopher. Resistance fighter. Today, his texts and thoughts continue to remain resolutely modern. All humorists carry within themselves a part of the heritage he left behind.

A key figure on the French music scene for over half a century, Brigitte Fontaine has never ceased to stir the imagination. Filled with humor and poetry, her work is a vibrant plea against all forms of death - including patriarchal oppression. Always a rebel, she remains a role model for several generations of artists, from Daho to M, including Sonic Youth, Jarvis Cocker and Béatrice Dalle.

A cross-portrait in which 3 centuries separate Edward Hopper from Johannes Vermeer, and also separate "New York office" from "Woman in blue reading a letter", as the film brings two artists together in their particular vision of the world.