![]() ‘What’s for tea, Mother? Shadows and lies on toast?’ Another favourite was, ‘BLACK, BLACK’ in a child’s voice, destroying his easel and saying things like, Some of his catchphrases, but I’ll leave you to do that. Thoughts, but once Johnnie had uttered the word ‘black’, the whole world wasīlack and full of torment and dread. Point, his wife would be trying to calm him down and steer him back to happy Strike him as being very grey, very heavy and grey… almost black. Do you remember him? He’d be paintingĪ lovely landscape with his wife when the sky he was trying to capture would Going to offer up a new candidate: the artist character from the Fast Show. No longer the nation’s favourite marathon runner. May have been stripped of his title now, in the same way that Jimmy Saville is Majority of the population by a survey that was done a few years ago. In this country, I think art can be summarised for the Not sure art has that affect, though it’s seen as highbrow so a lot of people The full spectrum of emotions and make you want to come back to them time and The visual and cerebral spectacle, but a great film or album can make you feel Produce it and stand out from the crowd, but although it makes our environmentĪ little nicer, does it really have the same cultural impact on us that, forĮxample, a great film or album does? There are films and albums that haveĪffected me very deeply for 30 years, not 30 seconds. Recognise that for most art you need a massive amount of talent to be able to How long can one artwork occupy your mind? Once you’ve pondered an artwork forģ0 seconds, it’s forgotten and you’ve moved onto the next one or something else ![]() Might get you to think, or look at something in a slightly different way, but I’m kind of glad that it exists – I’m not that anti-art –īut compared to some other art forms, I think it’s a poor relation. Not most are, aren’t they? Why is that? I can’t help thinking that it’s partlyīecause they think there will be very few visitors if it cost, say, £13. But for argument’s sake, let’s say it is free. This car park is about your only choice, the gallery isn’t really free for most Tried to take comfort in the thought that the actual gallery was free, but as Understand why an art gallery can be voted best museum either, but it’s a very I could also have said, ‘It cost £35 million to build and recently won the UK’sīiggest museum prize, the 2017 Art Fund Museum of the Year. Going for it if it can attract something like that.’ If I’d known at the time, ![]() Like shouting at the TV, ‘Don’t you realise that’s the second biggest modernĪrt gallery in Britain, after the Tate Modern? Wakefield must have something Was standing on Chantry Bridge, staring across to the Hepworth Gallery. Programme still seemed to be intimating the same thing even when the Syrian guy Thanks to the Internet, shops are shutting down across theĬountry and the Emos never seem to be causing any problems when I see them. Is indeed a dump and he’d have been better off staying in Syria, even if Shots of shops with ‘Closing Down Sale’ signs in the window and footage of theĮmos who hang around outside the cathedral, as if this was proof that Wakefield On, I recognise this place, that’s Wakefield!’. Much grief to get to Britain and look at the dump that he’s ended up in –ĭeprived, bleak and with little going for it’.Ī few seconds of watching him stroll about the town’s centre, I thought ‘hang Him and the clear undertone from the commentary was ‘he’s had to go through so They were showing him in the northern town in which the authorities had housed I wasn’t sure about the angle from which they had chosen to tell this guy’s story. Job of showing the real people behind the depressingly familiar headlines, but Was one guy from Syria – an English teacher I think – who after much sufferingĪnd persistence finally arrived in Britain. Heart-breaking and no one was attempting to make it to Britain simply to claimīenefits and have their way with our women. Many of these people were Syrian refugees, but there were also It followedĪ story of various people trying to flee to Europe as they escaped war, povertyĪnd oppression. I was watching Exodus, a BBC documentary about the migrant crisis. ![]()
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