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Radio 4,01 Nov 2022,28 mins

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet

Moving Pictures

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Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces. Each episode of Moving Pictures is devoted to a single artwork - and you're invited to look as well as listen, by following a link to a high-resolution image made by Google Arts & Culture. Zoom in and you can see the pores of the canvas, the sweep of individual brushstrokes, the shimmer of pointillist dots. This episode takes us to Paris in the 1880s and a popular music hall, the Folies-Bergère. A barmaid stares out of the painting, surrounded by bottles of beer and champagne. Behind her, a fashionable crowd gossip and flirt. It's easy to think we know her, given how often she pops up on biscuit tins, mouse-mats and mugs. But take a closer look. Cathy FitzGerald and her guests discover the secrets and delights of Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, now held in the collection of The Courtauld, London. To see the super high-resolution image of the work made by Google Arts & Culture, visit www.bbc.co.uk/movingpictures. Scroll down and follow the link to explore the high-resolution image of A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Interviewees: Karen Serres, Barnaby Wright, Leah Kharibian, Colin Jones and Emily Beeny. Producer and Presenter: Cathy FitzGerald Executive Producer: Sarah Cuddon Mix engineer: Mike Woolley Art History Consultant: Leah Kharibian A White Stiletto production for ѿý Radio 4 Picture credit: Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld

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