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Art World Exposed Podcast episode #67
Saldo Caluthe and Tomas Sinke present another episode of Art World Exposed.
This week:
00:00 welcome, chit chat, did Tomas succeed in buying Amelia Crescent’s 1879 oil painting of a rowing boat sinking in the Irish Sea? Was it painted from life?
26:12 Welcome this week’s guest H.L. Botters, one of the key members of The Stick Insects, the art group that grew up around L.S. Lowry. Memories of L.S. Lowry. An amusing tale of how L.S. Lowry developed his technique. Vox Pops in Salford: Does anyone know what the L.S. in L.S. Lowry stand for?
35:34 Saldo reports on the art market, especially the rumours that Daven Strickland’s work “Hang this painting in a darkened room” sold for over £130 million to a collector in Flanders.
42:56 A recap of the many amusing art world jokes that have been doing the rounds this week.
52:31 Is cricket one of the fine arts? Arguments on both sides.
57:00 Drawing the tombola winner for the prize of a Monet sketch of Denmark Hill on Bastille Day
59:22 Goodbyes.
Spiff Lantern – Pop artist for the 21st century
Spiff’s work is the latest in a line of pop art going back through Lichtenstein, Warhol and all the British Pop artists that are less famous. “I try to withdraw my presence from the picture. I want to be a machine that processes the image with no human input.”
Spiff works in portrait, still life and landscape genres.
Lo-res Jez – photographs imbued with a low resolution charm
Jez works with older forms of cameras, bringing a retro aesthetic to all his pictures.
”My main weapon of choice is a Gameboy camera, which gives an aesthetic totally unique in the world of photography. If you want a portrait completely different to the mainstream then my pics are for you. If you don’t, they aren’t.”
Harry Herford – 21st Century version of a 19th Century photographist
Harry Herford (Harance to his friends) calls himself a photographist, modelling his practice on the 1800s when photographers were known as photographists.
”My heroes are men and women like Shotgun Adams, the cowboy/photographist who rode with Jesse James and Billy the Kid, Maisie Condor, the first person to build a pinhole camera in Rochester and Sata Ko’, who made the world’s biggest camera obscura out of a disused cathedral in Wellington.”
Herford refuses to use any technology less than 100 years old, which is one reason why his stint as a paparazzo for the British tabloids didn’t last long. “As I was using a pinhole camera I needed the celebrities to stand still for three minutes for me to capture their likeness. Unfortunately most of them refused and all I had to offer the editor were different color blurs, which he threw back in my face. Actually I still believe they say more about the subject than any so called ‘accurate’ photos and intend to have an exhibition of ‘Celebrity Blurs’, in the upcoming months.
Harry works with discerning clients who appreciate the ethereal beauty of pinhole cameras, camerae obscurae and other ancient forms of photography.
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Girl with a Pearl Pixel
P1X3L have excelled themselves with this contemporary rendering of Vermeer’s classic image.
Summer in Soho Square – street photography
Snapped by Johnny Peckham in Soho Square, this image conveys something of the madcappery and busyness of life in central London.
Portraits by Doodle Pip
Doodle Pip has a philosophy of art quite unlike any other artist working either today or in the past. As a portraitist like Rembrandt, Warhol or Murillo they are interested in creating works based on clients. But there the similarity ends.
If my picture looks too much like the sitter, I start again. I want to convey nothing of the subject.
Doodle Pip, portraitist
Doodle Pip creates unique works that – at their best – look nothing like the sitter. If the sitter can be recognised then they feel that their work has failed.
“There is a wonderful freedom to Pip’s work. It is the biggest step forward in fine art since the invention of egg tempura. To have thrown out completely any attempt at verisimilitude is to have thrown out art history. Pip reminds us of what art was like before art was art. I have a picture of my husband by Pip and it looks nothing like him. We couldn’t be more pleased; it is our favourite work in our collection and the only one I would save in a fire. And we have seven Botticellis and a Simone Serratio, so that is saying something.”
Walla Von Munchen, art critic and part-time fire-fighter (grade 3 – bungalows only)
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