Matthew Collings

Documentary in which artist and writer Matthew Collings explores the concept of beauty in art. Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder, or is there something more universal we can say about it? (Channel 4)

Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations. He asks top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equations in science, talks to Stephen Hawking about his equation for black holes and comes face to face with a particle of anti-matter.

Romanticism from 200 years ago to 2001 is a reality system that comes from the imagination. It looks for and recognises extremes - from light to dark, from joy to dejection. Imagination, which creates the world, has to be kept supplied with feeling and intensified, otherwise the world dies. For the world to exist and for imagination to work, something has to be happening.

Matthew Collings looks closely at the work of four of the world's greatest painters and their relevance for us today: Titian, Rubens, Velázquez and Hogarth. He believes that they are linked by a sense of paint - having an expressive rich luxurious life of its own. In the history of art this is the stream of painterly painting.

Artist and critic Matthew Collings embarks on an epic journey across the planet to explore the ways in which cultures of the past have shaped our civilisation in homage to Sir Kenneth Clark.