Watch The Shock of The New Season 1 Full Episodes

The final episode in the series explores the decline of modernism and how various artists have reacted to the consequent commercialization of their...

Artists began to take man-made images as their inspiration, leading to the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as Stuart Davis'...

Expressionism sprung out of the harsh, secular atmosphere of the 20th Century and evolved, through the strong colors and often somber moods of...

The art movement that gripped its exponents with the fervor of a religion: surrealism. Artists like Di Chirico, Ernst, Miró and Dalí; brought the...

How modern architects in the wake of the Bauhaus aspired to change societies with their designs, a move represented both by Le Corbusier and the...

The French artists who attempted to reconcile man with nature, from the determination of the impressionists to paint outside to Matisse's vibrant use...

Hughes explores the interplay between art and politics, seeing how artists were affected by the development of mechanised warfare and ideologies like...

Traces how developments in technology inspired art between 1880 and the end of WWI, leading to movements like cubism and futurism.