Painting of the Week Podcast
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
Episodes
71 episodes
Season 4, Ep.10: Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh
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 ...
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Season 4, Ep.9: Augustus of Prima Porta Statue - Vatican Museums
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...
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Season 4, Ep.8: Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach by John Constable
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…
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Season 4, Ep.7: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
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...
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Season 4, Ep.6: Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando by Edgar Degas
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...
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Season 4, Ep.5: Rain, Steam, and Speed by JMW Turner
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...
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Season 4, Ep.3: The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
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 o...
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Christmas Special: Painting of the Year
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...
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Season 3, Ep.20, Gustav Klimt - Hermine Gallia
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...
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Season 3, Ep.19: Ditchling War Memorial by Eric Gill
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...
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Season 3, Ep.18 Mohri Yuko - Moré Moré
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
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Season 3, Ep 17: Georges de La Tour - Penitent Magdalen
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…
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Season 3, ep.15: Charles Webster Hawthorne - The Boat Steerer
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…
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Season 3 Ep.14: John Singer Sargent - El Jaleo
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...
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Season 3, Ep 13: Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Bent Knees
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...
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Episode 13
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Season 2, Ep. 12: Goya, The Duchess of Alba
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?
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Episode 12
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Season 3, Ep.11: Albrecht Dürer, Great Piece of Turf
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...
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Season 3, Ep.10: Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window
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...
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Season 3, Ep. 9: Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew
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...
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Episode 9
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