- Actors: Wendy Beckett
- Directors: John Hooper
- Producers: Nicholas Rossiter
- Format: NTSC
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 4
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- Studio: BBC / Warner Home Video
- Release Date: Oct 15 2002
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00006G8FJ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #45,370 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Sister Wendy Beckett has transformed public appreciation of art through her astonishing knowledge, insight and passion for painting and painters. Join her on a trip across the world and through the ages, where her contemplative insights and unorthodox enthusiasm bring the world's great art to life. Contains Sister Wendy's Story of Painting, Sister Wendy's Odyssey, and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wendy is wonderful,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sister Wendy: The Complete Collection [4 Discs] (DVD)
Wendy presents the world of art on a variety of levels, historic, psychological, spritual and mystical. She is enthusiastic and emotional towards her topics. Listening to her is really a joy. Consider that her life is not filled with the financial, relational, and ownership concerns that most of us deal with on a daily basis. Her spirit is uncluttered to the point that she can see clearly, freely and purely and she wants to share that experience with us. She has no real possessions of her own, but wants to give us what she does have, and that is her obvious enthusiasm, insight and deep understanding.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
BUYERS SHOULD KNOW...,
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This review is from: Sister Wendy Comp Collection (DVD)
...that the collection is NOT complete. The good sister's explorations of AMERICAN galleries are not included. Although I relished her insight and wisdom in her commentaries on paintings in European galleries, it was her American experience which seemed to change and deepen her vision. Her discovery of Oceanic art is one of the Great Moments in television... Unless one has witnessed her breathless encounter with new art in the U.S. series, one has not fully appreciated Sister Wendy!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
put aside your prejudice, learn and have fun!,
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This review is from: Sister Wendy: The Complete Collection [4 Discs] (DVD)
I highly recommend this DVD even if the idea of an old nun talking about art doesn't seem appealing or trendy to you. Believe me, I was VERY suspicious about it and also prejudiced at the beginning, but Sister Wendy's excellent teachings of art history coupled with her intense passion for the subject has completely won me over. If like me your prejudiced, go ahead and buy it, the chances are that you won't regret it. You willl learn a lot and have fun too. I went to the inauguration events of both Bilbao's Guggenheim and Cincinnati's CAC. I am attracted to art not only because of the art itself but also because of the avant-gard, rebellious, environment of sophistication and good taste that surrounds it. Thus, I am in the target category of people who may be prejudiced against an old nun talking about art as that brings to mind images of conservativism, total obcession with old religious paintings, preaching, unworldlyness, lack of technical knowledge, etc, etc. Nothing of that is true of Sister Wendy. In fact in this DVD she will tell you that Matisse is her favorite painter (surprised that is not Giotto?), she will provide all the technical details and context like an Ivy league professor and she will gp beyond that by pouring her heart out about the emotions that the paintings originate in her, and you will be surprised to know that is not all about piety. The best DVD I have ever seen about art and I have an extensive collection with more traditional sources as narrators (museum directors, NY art critics, painters, etc) which aren't nearly as good.
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