Slow Down at the Speed - Where Art and Mindfulness Meet
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Film Director Phil Grabsky and art-lover Laura Bentham meet each week to talk about paintings that inspire or excite them. Listen to their ‘Painting of the Week’ and explore some of the world’s most amazing art. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast
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Partake in life and business via my podcast conversations! Inspiration and motivation guaranteed! 😃 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria49/support
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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… Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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This week's topic of discussion is Holbein’s masterpiece from one of the most important years in British history – 1533. This was the year that Henry VIII broke from the Catholic church, married Anne Boleyn and had a daughter who would become one of England’s most popular monarchs, Elizabeth I... Support the show…
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Christmas Special: Painting of the Year
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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Not sure what to do in an art museum? Then put your headphones on, and listen as you wander through the galleries. These suggestions will work in any art museum. Seriously. Try it.Featuring Alice Gray Stites and Stuart Horodner. Music by Awake at Nite. Written and produced by Darrick Wood.Από τον Speed Art Museum
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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’... www.seventh-art.com Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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… Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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… Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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? Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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For this episode, Phil and Laura discuss a mysterious masterpiece by Rembrandt... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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. Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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This week, we explore a painting that has become the archetypal image of the Romantic era and the Sublime… Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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This week, Phil and Laura discuss a surrealist painting that plays with the idea of reality and perception... Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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Season 3 begins with Phil and Laura discussing an important wartime work which reveals much about the previously untapped skills of British women... Support the show
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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! For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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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. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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Painted in just seven working days, this extraordinary fresco only narrowly escaped total destruction in 1785… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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! For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please …
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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 …
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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. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-ar…
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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… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the showΑπό τον Seventh Art Productions
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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… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com…
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Season 2, Ep. 11: The Skating Minister (The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch) - Henry Raeburn
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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…
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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… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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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. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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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… For more informat…
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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… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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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’… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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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? www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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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. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast Support the show…
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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. For more information and to see the…
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