Alain Jaubert Trailers

Lascaux: The Prehistory of Art Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Documentary of a network of caves discovered in 1940 in France. Inside are hundreds of depictions of animals painted approximately 17,000 years ago.

Duchamp. Le temps spirale Trailer (1993)

19 August 1993

It is with regard to the painting "Nude descending the staircase" that Alain Jaubert has chosen to evoke the work of Marcel Duchamp.

Lascaux: Prähistorische Kunst in der Höhle Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Le Subtil Oiseleur Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

J.M.W. Turner Trailer (2009)

22 August 2009

The Briton Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) is one of the most productive painters in art history: he created around 32,000 works, mostly landscape paintings.

La couleur de l'instant: La série des bassins aux nymphéas Trailer (1990)

21 September 1990

An analysis of the 54 paintings in the Water Lilies series, begun by Monet in 1895 and continued until his death in 1926.

Le Dernier Regard – L’Européenne, portrait du Fayoum Trailer (1998)

06 November 1998

Using a funerary portrait from the Fayum preserved at the Louvre Museum, this documentary explores the art of portrait painting in Roman Egypt during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.

Pablo Picasso « Les couleurs de la passion » Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

The Crucifixion is a rather surprising painting of Picasso's. The painter has in fact very rarely painted religious subjects.

The Violence of Motif Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Born in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne returned to settle there after some travels. The nearby Sainte-Victoire mountain became his subject, which he would depict more than sixty times in different styles and in every season.

Rembrandt« Le miroir des paradoxes » Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

From his very first paintings, Rembrandt stages himself. Thereafter, at least a hundred times, he would take his own face as the sole subject of an engraving, drawing, or painting.

Stefano Di Giovanni dit Sassetta « Le Retable en morceaux, Polyptyque » Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Stefano Di Giovanni, nicknamed Sassetta from the 18th century onward, painted this polyptych in Siena between 1437 and 1444 before delivering it, in accordance with his contract, to the Franciscan convent of San Sepolcro near Arezzo.

Rubens « La gloire de la chair » Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

In 1630, Rubens who is settled in Anvers marries in a second marriage Hélène Fourment. In the huge studio he has had built, he paints several portraits of Hélène, in the garden, in furs, in a carriage, which are minutely analysed in this film.

Pierre Bonnard « Le mimosa mimétique » Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

A square format market by the rhythms of its many obliques (the frame of the glass window, the guardrail in the foreground) and its brilliant colours (ultramarine, emerald, orange, pink and the bright yellow of the mimosa), L'Atelier is one of Bonnard's last great paintings.

Édouard Manet « Le modèle au chat noir » Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Scandal at the 1865 Salon. Édouard Manet shows a pale, naked girl lying indifferently on a divan. "What is this odalisque with a yellow belly, an ignoble model picked up God knows where, who represents Olympia? The crowd gathers as if at the morgue before M.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir « Les beaux dimanches d’été » Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Dedicated to one of the major paintings by Auguste Renoir, created in 1876, this documentary combines a meticulous analysis of the artwork with engravings and photographs showing the true “face” of Montmartre Hill at the end of the 19th century.

Van Eyck « Miracle dans la loggia » Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

Let us travel back to the 15th century and imagine the interior of the workshop of the painter Jan van Eyck: a porter delivers a wooden panel, one assistant grinds pigments, another mixes them with linseed oil, and a third arranges them on palettes.

Le Caravage « Anges et bourreaux » Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

It was a French prelate who commissioned the decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of Saint Louis of the French in Rome, dedicated to his patron saint, Matthew.

Courbet « La place du mort » Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Who were they burying that day in Ornans ? A gathering of ordinary people, a priest, altor boys, all inhabitants of Courbet's native village.

Piero Della Francesca « Le rêve de la diagonale, La Flagellation » Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

This is certainly the most mysterious painting of all the history of painting. Thirty different attempts of finding out the hidden meaning of it have been made without success.

Andy Warhol « Ten Lizes » Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

Ten similar faces are printed in black, in two rows, on a big canvas measuring 5,65 meters long by 2 high.

Jean Honoré Fragonard « L’amour dans les plis, Le Verrou » Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

An image that appears ordinary, with a highly explicit subject, can carry troubling undertones. Is it not most strange that this painting may have been created during a religious scene? This final variation on the opposition between sacred love and profane love brings several centuries of religious painting to a close and opens a new era: eroticism is no longer the domain of ancient gods but is shared here and now, in the most everyday setting.

Henri Matisse « A vif dans la couleur » Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Composed in Nice, at the Hôtel Régina where the painter had been living since 1949, The Sadness of the King, a 1952 painting nearly four meters by three, is one of the last great works of Matisse.

Georges de La Tour « Le tricheur à l’as de carreau » Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

Three cards in hand, gold on the table—we are in the middle of a game of prime, a precursor to poker.

Paolo Uccello « Vacarmes en Toscane, La Bataille de San Romano » Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

These three very big panels scattered in three different museums (London, Paris and Florence) are considered to be a sort of manifesto of the new art of the 15th century.

Yves Klein « Traces de l’époque bleue » Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Blue period, blue traces, blue sponges... Yves Klein deserved his nickname of "Yves the monochrome". Even though he used many other colours, it is the colour of the sky that he chose above all, used over and over again and that he made into not just a mode of expression but a sort of spiritual energy.

Rafaello Sanzio dit Raphaël « Portrait de l’ami en homme de cour, Portrait de Baldassare Castiglione » Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

Raphael strives to capture the open and sympathetic face of his friend and deliberately simplifies his composition.

Grünewald « Le retable des Ardents » Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

Around 1515, Master Mathis added painted panels arranged as double wings to a sculpted altarpiece created twenty years earlier for the convent-hospital of Isenheim in Alsace.

Georges Seurat « l’Utopie orange vert pourpre » Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

A century later, Alain Jaubert rediscovered the exact location where Seurat prepared his painting, as well as the studio where he completed it.

Hokusai « La Menace suspendue » Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

The silhouette of a giant wave about to engulf fragile boats: this image of suspended fate has traveled the world in the form of postcards, posters, and advertisements.

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin « La saveur de l’immobile, La Raie » Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

A still life featuring a large fish, painted in the Dutch manner, The Ray immerses us in the quiet life of familiar objects that the artist took pleasure in depicting.

Cézanne « La violence du motif » Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Born in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne returns to settle there after some journeys elsewhere. He takes as his motif the Sainte-Victoire mountain close by and paints it more than sixty times in different ways and at every time of year.

La Dame à la Licorne « Le sixième sens » Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

A hanging composed of the six most famous tapestries in the world. These pictures, reproduced everywhere and in all possible forms, have become the emblems of a certain form of romantic art of the late Middle Ages.

Delacroix « Sous les pavés l’image » Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

Alain Jaubert uncovers the details, interprets the symbols, and analyzes the composition. Why did the painting spark such controversy when it was presented in 1831?

Francisco de Goya « La Lettre, la Flèche et le Balai » Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Why have these two paintings, The Young Women and The Old Women, always been presented together? Historical investigation does not provide an answer.

Léonard de Vinci « Le sourire et l’entrelacs, La Vierge, l’enfant Jésus et Sainte Anne » Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

On the right, a very dark tree clings to the slope of a hill. At the center stands Saint Anne. She wears her hair in braids, her eyes lowered, smiling.

Edouard Vuillard « Les allées du souvenir » Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

A bit disregarded by the historians, the painter Edouard Vuillard is now finding a place of very first plan in the history of modern art.

Nicolas Poussin « Admirable tremblement du temps » Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

During his final years in Rome, Nicolas Poussin painted four works for the Duke of Richelieu evoking the seasons.

Jean Antoine Watteau « Le pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère, Les secrets de la fête galante » Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

The Pilgrimage to Cythera's island is one of the glories of the Louvre Museum. Praised by Baudelaire, Nerval and Proust, copied by countless painters, continually analysed, it is both legend and utopia.

Gauguin « Harmonies sauvages » Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

Gauguin was a sailor and then a stockbroker at the money market. Husband of a young Danish woman, Mette Gad, he became a father.

Johannes Vermeer« Le grain de la lumière » Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

The primary characteristic of Vermeer’s work is the assimilation of his perspective to a photographic vision.

Théodore Géricault « La beauté du désastre » Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

By painting his monumental work The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819, Théodore Géricault elevated a news event to the level of modern history painting.

Miniature persane « Les Jardins du Paradis » Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

From the Bagdad School (14th century) to the Qadjar School (19th century), Persian painting has always preserved an extraordinary vitality.

Tiziano Vecellio dit Titien « Un souvenir d’Arcadie, Le Concert Champêtre » Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

Is the painting by Giorgiorne or by Titien ? It is difficult to distinguish the work of Giorgione (who died in 1510 at the age of 33) from the early works of Titien (who, for his part died in 1576 at a great age).

Pompéi « Cérémonies secrètes » Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

In 79 AD, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city and inhabitants of Pompeii under volcanic debris and preserved—until excavations in 1909—a vast fresco painted a century and a half earlier in a suburban villa.

Bacon « Les figures de l’excès » Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

A plunge into the strange and fascinating world of Francis Bacon, whose painting struggles to exorcise violence and death.

Le Lorrain « Les théâtres du Soleil » Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

A harbor illuminated by the setting sun in a city of Italian style. On the left, a small temple topped with a clock.

Van Gogh « La haute note jaune » Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

In october 1888 Vincent Van Gogh who has been living for eight months in Arles, paints his room. A year later, when he is at the Saint-Paul de Mausole Hospice near Saint-Rémy, he feels compelled to paint two copies of this picture which he is especially fond of.

Véronèse « Un tableau en procès » Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

A study of Veronese’s painting The Feast in the House of Levi (1573), originally conceived as a representation of the Last Supper.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec « Une légende fin de siècle » Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

La Goulue, the famous cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge and queen of Belle Époque Paris nightlife, had somewhat fallen from grace.

Shitao « L’Unique trait de pinceau » Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

Shitao, one of the most skilled painters of his time, was deeply imbued with Buddhist spirituality, as he was forced to take refuge in monasteries from a very young age.

Euphronios « Euphronios a peint » Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Euphronios is one of the rare Greek vase painters whose name has come down to us. An exceptional artist, he stopped painting at the height of his career to devote himself to making the vases he had once decorated.

Kandinsky « Figures de l’invisible » Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

At the time Wassily Kandinsky painted Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), he was a professor at the Bauhaus. In this work, the painter applies the principles of color and analytical drawing that he also taught to his students and developed in several theoretical writings.

Ingres « Le regard captif » Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

At the end of his career, Ingres brought together 25 nude women in a painting he prepared with great care.