tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post4321056490111583517..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Art on TVGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-7987960742952419612010-11-01T07:17:37.486+00:002010-11-01T07:17:37.486+00:00Back late from London last night so just picking u...Back late from London last night so just picking up the comments. Yes, that is the issue, Mark. Fine poem. I thought Tim Marlow did some good programmes, James, and there have been other good ones. It's not a bad time for art on TV.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-1588378051810806892010-10-31T14:19:43.989+00:002010-10-31T14:19:43.989+00:00THE SLAUGHTERED OX
-Rembrandt
Light loves to fall...THE SLAUGHTERED OX<br />-Rembrandt<br /><br />Light loves to fall on flesh of any sort.<br />The cruciform, barrel-wide carcass of the ox<br /><br />(soiled by blood and shadow, gaping open<br />for the pallid ochres, glutinous bags of fat)<br /><br />was ample reason for the time enrolled<br />to flesh its afterlife and give it weight.<br /><br />Hung in the Louvre today, it still holds fresh<br />though 'the smell of colour' might unsettle you.Mark Granierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-80528850252084944792010-10-31T11:37:40.755+00:002010-10-31T11:37:40.755+00:00Talking of art on tv, I'm still in awe after N...Talking of art on tv, I'm still in awe after Nani's goal against Spurs. Many players would have gone down at that point, looking for a penalty, but he found his feet, sold that outrageous, astonishing dummy to poor Gomez, before passing the ball calmly into the net. Sublime. He reminds me of Finney when he's in that sort of mood.<br /><br />There's a whole team of excellent fine arts presenters these days, and I wish they'd combine their talents into an enduring modern tv survey of the arts, Civilization-style but with a wider remit than that given Kenneth Clark (and without his - amusing and understandable, admittedly - eyepopping every time he has to venture onto the subject of Germans). A televised version of Martin Kemp's Oxford History of Western Art plus Africa, Asia, Australia and pre-Columbine Americas, plus literature and music. Too long, too expensive no doubt. But imagine dropping a set of the DVDs into every school, or creating an educational website to match it - with sessions spent talking to working artists and writers, so the viewer can back off from the academia a little bit and just smell the paint.Jamesnoreply@blogger.com