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| Season 4, Ep.10: Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh | 27 Jun 2024 | 00:36:38 | |
This week, Phil and Laura look at Vincent’s other ‘Starry Night’, painted just down the road from his famous yellow house in Arles, and explore the themes of love, madness and beauty that have followed this beloved and troubled artist over the centuries... | |||
| Season 4, Ep.9: Augustus of Prima Porta Statue - Vatican Museums | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:38:03 | |
Talk about good PR! This masterpiece by an unknown Greek artist depicts the first official emperor of Rome, Augustus, demonstrating his firm grasp of the importance of a carefully crafted public image in 20AD... | |||
| Christmas Special: Painting of the Year | 19 Dec 2023 | 01:01:44 | |
In this special Christmas episode, Phil and Laura pick their top 3 favourite paintings from a year full of masterpieces to discuss over Laura's homemade Christmas punch... | |||
| Season 3, Ep.20, Gustav Klimt - Hermine Gallia | 25 Sep 2023 | 00:32:36 | |
On this episode of Painting of the Week, Phil & Laura discuss a Klimt work which sits right on the cusp of his drastic artistic transformation... | |||
| Season 3, Ep.19: Ditchling War Memorial by Eric Gill | 14 Sep 2023 | 00:30:15 | |
Phil, Laura and special guest Janet Laurence explore a local work by a controversial artist Eric Gill, a terrible man with a wonderful talent, and debate whether you can separate the art from the artist... | |||
| Season 3, Ep.18 Mohri Yuko - Moré Moré | 14 Aug 2023 | 00:25:30 | |
This episode explores a wildly different art style on the cutting edge of the Japanese avant-garde movement, as featured in our latest film’ Tokyo Stories’... | |||
| Season 3, Ep 17: Georges de La Tour - Penitent Magdalen | 03 Aug 2023 | 00:26:55 | |
This moody, gothic painting was a clean break from the bombastic nature of the baroque style which dominated in the seventeenth century and brings the viewer into a quiet moment of intense contemplation with Mary Magdalene herself… | |||
| Season 3, Ep 16: Wilfredo Lam - La Silla (The Chair) | 20 Jul 2023 | 00:23:32 | |
| Season 3, ep.15: Charles Webster Hawthorne - The Boat Steerer | 29 Jun 2023 | 00:22:35 | |
This episode, recorded at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum with CEO Chris McCarthy, examines an evocative painting by one of the founders of the Cape Cod art colony, the oldest continuous art colony in the USA… | |||
| Season 3 Ep.14: John Singer Sargent - El Jaleo | 08 Jun 2023 | 00:29:29 | |
This episode explores a dynamic masterpiece by the greatest portraitist of his time, John Singer Sargent, and his immersion into the "Hispanism" which gripped Europe at the end of the nineteenth century... | |||
| Season 3, Ep 13: Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Bent Knees | 08 Jun 2023 | 00:30:04 | |
This week's Painting of the Week explores a work which subverts the traditional beauty standard, bringing a sense of grittiness and discomfort into this erotically charged portrait of the artists' beautiful wife... | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 12: Goya, The Duchess of Alba | 10 Mar 2023 | 00:36:56 | |
This week, Phil and Laura discuss Goya's portrait of a formidable young noble woman, recently widowed. Is there more to this portrait than meets the eye? | |||
| Season 4, Ep.8: Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach by John Constable | 13 Jun 2024 | 00:27:18 | |
This week, Phil’s takes leading BBC radio presenter Danny Pike for a trip to the Brighton Pavilion to examine local legend John Constable’s stunning work depicting the seafront a stone’s throw from our office… | |||
| Season 3, Ep.11: Albrecht Dürer, Great Piece of Turf | 02 Mar 2023 | 00:33:28 | |
This week Phil and Laura explore Albrecht Dürer's 'Great Piece of Turf' and what made this very pretty patch of lawn so ground-breaking in the 16th century... | |||
| Season 3, Ep.10: Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window | 16 Feb 2023 | 00:20:28 | |
In this very special episode Phil speaks to 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' author Tracy Chevalier from the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime Vermeer exhibition. Phil and Tracy stand before a masterpiece and discuss it's surprising history... | |||
| Season 3, Ep. 9: Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew | 25 Jan 2023 | 00:35:15 | |
Join Phil and Laura this week as they discuss Caravaggio's 'The Calling of Saint Matthew', a masterpiece that brings this pivotal biblical moment into the world of the 16th century... | |||
| Season 3, Ep.8: Pieter de Hooch - Courtyard of a House in Delft | 12 Jan 2023 | 00:31:56 | |
In this episode, Phil and Laura explore this masterpiece from the Dutch Golden Age, uncovering the magic contained within this very normal visions of everyday life... | |||
| Season 3, Ep. 7: Horace Pippin - Christmas Morning, Breakfast | 21 Dec 2022 | 00:30:17 | |
In today's festive episode, Phil and Laura focus on Horace Pippin's 'Christmas Morning, Breakfast' and the fascinating story of one of America's foremost black artists... | |||
| Season 3, Ep.6: Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride | 24 Nov 2022 | 00:29:27 | |
For this episode, Phil and Laura discuss a mysterious masterpiece by Rembrandt... | |||
| Season 3, Ep. 5: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party | 21 Nov 2022 | 00:31:56 | |
This week Phil and Laura discuss one of their favourite paintings - Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party - and why its creator was such a controversial figure... | |||
| Season 3, Ep. 4: William Meyerowitz, Gloucester Humoresque | 02 Nov 2022 | 00:23:15 | |
For this episode, Phil traveled to the wonderful Cape Ann Museum in New England while making 'Hopper: An American Love Story' and discussed William Meyerowitz's 'Gloucester Humoresque' with chief curator Martha Oakes. | |||
| Season 3, Ep. 3: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog | 29 Sep 2022 | 00:31:56 | |
This week, we explore a painting that has become the archetypal image of the Romantic era and the Sublime… | |||
| Season 3, Ep. 2: Rene Margritte, The Promenades of Euclid | 09 Sep 2022 | 00:31:24 | |
This week, Phil and Laura discuss a surrealist painting that plays with the idea of reality and perception... | |||
| Season 4, Ep.7: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez | 04 Jun 2024 | 00:34:29 | |
This week, Phil and Laura discuss what has been repeatedly named one of the greatest paintings in history, the monumental ‘Las Meninas’ or ‘The Maids’ by the legendary Diego Velázquez... | |||
| Season 3, Ep. 1: Dame Laura Knight, Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring | 25 Aug 2022 | 00:27:32 | |
Season 3 begins with Phil and Laura discussing an important wartime work which reveals much about the previously untapped skills of British women... | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 20: Daybreak - Maxfield Parrish | 28 Mar 2022 | 00:41:59 | |
To celebrate the clocks going forward here in the U.K. and the return to 'British Summer time', this Painting of the Week is Maxfield Parrish's Daybreak - the most popular print of the twentieth century! | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 19: Kiss of Judas - Giotto | 22 Mar 2022 | 00:36:21 | |
This week, Phil and Laura discuss one of Phil's favourite paintings to feature in the Exhibition on Screen film ‘Easter in Art’: Giotto’s Kiss of Judas. | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 18: Railroad Gates - Jo Hopper, Edward Hopper | 15 Mar 2022 | 00:34:10 | |
This week, Phil and Hopper House curator Elizabeth Thompson Colleary discuss not one but two paintings, both entitled ‘Railroad Gates’ - one by Edward Hopper and one by his wife Jo - and uncover a fascinating story in the process… | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 17: The Madonna del Parto - Piero della Francesca | 08 Mar 2022 | 00:30:49 | |
Painted in just seven working days, this extraordinary fresco only narrowly escaped total destruction in 1785… | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 16: The Night Watch - Rembrandt | 01 Mar 2022 | 00:32:53 | |
This enormous masterpiece is one of Rembrandt’s finest works, and one of the most famous of the Dutch Golden Age. Brimming with life, it has a fascinating history which includes being wrongfully identified as a night scene during the 19th century and multiple attempts at vandalism! | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 15: The Two Fridas (1939) - Frida Kahlo | 22 Feb 2022 | 00:32:06 | |
On this date made entirely of twos - 22/2/22 - we are celebrating 2 weeks until the release of our film exploring the life and art of international icon Frida Kahlo and so, rather fittingly, this episode of Painting of the Week focuses on The Two Fridas, with special guest Ali Ray, the director of the upcoming film. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 14: The Room with a View - Duncan Grant | 15 Feb 2022 | 00:28:02 | |
In this episode, Phil & Laura journey to Charleston House in rural Sussex to explore an excellent Duncan Grant exhibition, selecting his fascinating ‘The Room with a View” to discuss, and, more broadly, the Bloomsbury Group and its remarkable cast of characters. | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 13: Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1434–1436) - Jan van Eyck | 08 Feb 2022 | 00:38:01 | |
This 1436 tomb decoration brings Jesus and the Virgin Mary into the contemporary world, and right in front of the man who commissioned the painting… | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 12: Filtres a Cafe (91-S) - Kaixuan Feng | 03 Feb 2022 | 00:30:10 | |
In honour of Chinese New Year today, our #PaintingOfTheWeek is by Chinese artist Kaixuan Feng, who has trained in both traditional Chinese painting and contemporary art, bringing the two together in her unique series of beautifully decorated coffee filters… | |||
| Season 4, Ep.6: Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando by Edgar Degas | 30 May 2024 | 00:28:49 | |
This week, co-directors of My National Gallery, London Ali Ray and Phil Grabsky discuss Ali’s favourite work in this world-renowned gallery, and just why it stuck out to her amongst this enormous collection of masterpieces... | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 11: The Skating Minister (The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch) - Henry Raeburn | 25 Jan 2022 | 00:34:31 | |
For this special Burns' Night edition of Painting of the Week, Phil & Laura are looking at an iconic and decidedly unusual Scottish painting by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823) - his charming depiction of the Rev. Robert Walker gliding across Duddingston Loch on his skates… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 10: The Deposition from the Cross (altarpiece) - Jacopo Pontormo | 18 Jan 2022 | 00:40:52 | |
Sitting between High Renaissance and Baroque styles, this 16th century altarpiece from the Capponi Chapel in Florence brings together two of the most luxurious art periods in history… | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 9: The Lady of Shalott - William Holman Hunt | 11 Jan 2022 | 00:34:12 | |
A painting based on a drawing based on a poem based on a legend… this week Phil & Laura discuss Hunt’s rendition of the legend of the Lady of Shalott, an Alfred, Lord Tennysonpoem used with great enthusiasm by the Pre-Raphaelites. | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 8: Great Bookcase - William Burges | 04 Jan 2022 | 00:26:03 | |
Worked on by fourteen leading nineteenth century artists and taking 3 years to complete, the stunning ‘Great Bookcase’ is so much more than a piece of furniture. Join Phil in his discussion with Matthew Winterbottom, Curator of Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Ashmolean as they discuss one of the museum’s most intriguing pieces… | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 7: The Bridge at Argenteuil - Alfred Sisley | 28 Dec 2021 | 00:34:36 | |
This week Phil and Laura take a look at The Bridge at Argenteuil, painted in 1872 by Impressionist Alfred Sisley. A prolific artist who painted numerous riverscapes and seascapes both in England and France… | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 6: In The Loge - Mary Cassatt | 14 Dec 2021 | 00:29:25 | |
Listen in this week to find out more about Mary Cassatt - a key figure in the impressionist movement who has been frequently overlooked - and her 1878 painting ‘In The Loge’, an exploration of the act of ‘looking’… | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 5: The Gleaners - John Constable | 07 Dec 2021 | 00:36:24 | |
In this episode, Phil and Laura look at one of the greatest of all British artists: John Constable. He is known best for his Suffolk (eastern England) landscapes but this painting is Brighton on the south coast. Why was he there? What does the painting reveal? | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 4: Dept Store Game - Utagawa Kunimasa IV | 30 Nov 2021 | 00:24:59 | |
An absolute treat this week – from the 5-star exhibition The Art of Tokyo at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. Is it a painting or is it a board game? Phil talks to Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean. | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 3: ‘Four Girls on a Bridge’ - Edvard Munch (1905) | 23 Nov 2021 | 00:33:44 | |
This painting by Edvard Munch depicts girls standing on a bridge wearing bright clothes and with a bright blue sky overhead, perhaps suggesting that it’s summer. However, the sketchy forms and puzzling nature of the figures suggest it is equally a depiction of Munch’s psychological state, a somewhat darker place. | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 2: Portrait of John Ruskin - John Everett Millais | 16 Nov 2021 | 00:11:26 | |
This portrait of Victorian art critic John Ruskin was painted by Millais in 1853-4. Ruskin was an early advocate of the pre-Raphaelites and part of their success was down to his efforts. Phil is joined this week by Matthew Winterbottom, Curator of Sculpture & Decorative Arts at The Ashmolean where the painting hangs… | |||
| Season 4, Ep.5: Rain, Steam, and Speed by JMW Turner | 20 May 2024 | 00:30:42 | |
In this episode, Phil and Laura discuss the wonderfully dynamic Turner work which Michael Palin called his “science fiction painting” in My National Gallery, London... | |||
| Season 2, Ep. 1: Going to the Match - L.S. Lowry | 09 Nov 2021 | 00:36:31 | |
In this famous scene, painted by Lowry in 1928, we see countless fans hurrying towards the turnstiles to see a football match. As with so many of his industrial landscapes, the picture is a composite of the actual and the imagined… | |||
| Season 1, Ep. 20: The Railway - Edouard Manet | 04 Nov 2021 | 00:40:02 | |
Painted in 1873, The Railway is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, fellow painter Victorine Meurent. We see her sitting with a sleeping puppy, a fan, and an open book in her lap, while a little girl watches the white clouds of steam as a train passes beneath them. But actually, we are seeing far more than that… | |||
| Season 1, Ep. 19: Triumphs of Caesar - Andrea Mantegna | 25 Oct 2021 | 00:37:11 | |
In this episode of the Painting of The Week Podcast, Laura and Phil take a look at 'Triumphs of Caesar' by Andrea Mantegna | |||
| Season 1, Ep. 18: Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) - Diego Velázquez | 18 Oct 2021 | 00:40:29 | |
Painted by the extraordinary Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in Rome in 1650, Pope Innocent X considered this portrait to be ‘too true’… Laura and Phil take a closer look. | |||