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* LOOKING INT/ PAINTINGS
This Wednesday's pro ramme at 6.30pm
looks at aastract art from Mondrian
to Matisse.
* MIGHTY MOMENTS FROM W RLD HIST RY
In this week's final offering from the
National Theatre of Brent,0Webnesday
at 9.00pm, Queen Boadice for s zhe
unfortunate focus of their ttentions.
Edited by Jackie Budd
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LOOKING INT/
PAINTINGS
Art since Impressionism has generally
seemed too involved in stylistic
experimentation to have concerneb
itself with the high-handeb manner of
History painting.
And if that sounds like douale-dutch to
you, then tune into Looking Into
Paintings on Wednesday at 6.30 when all
things Abstract will be explained.
Abstract art can be understood and
enjoyed. This week's programme looks at
the work of Matisse, Malevich and
Mondrian with the help of contemporary
painter Gillian Ayqes.
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P441ORACLE 441 Mon 2 Dec C4 1714:27
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LOOKING INT/
PAINTINGS
Painters such as Kandinsky, Mondrian
and Malevich removed recognisable
imagery from their paintings in order
to move from particular phenomena to
truths about humanity and the cosmos.
For most people, abstract art is an
acquired taste. Picasso's art, for
example, so distorts the human form
that at first glance it is often
unrecognisable.
You may not understand him, but you
cannot deny Picasso's genius. His most
famous work, Guernica, is a cold mass
of distorted images which at first
seem indecipherable.
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The German atta k of the asque town
Guernica inspired the painting and the
news and photographs from the attack
enabled Picasso to sta t his pa n ing
Gue ica i a n almost w th
colour: black and white predomin te,
but here aF a so o s an u
gre s.
Th s harshnuss m st have been q it
str kin i a t e vi ua
glorifying that exhibitions of this
competitive sort attract.
It offers an allegory of wa . There
are also symaolic elem nts whose
meaning is disputed.
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P441ORACLE 441 Mon 2 Dec C4 1713:22
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LOOKING INT/
PAINTINGS
Modern painting is sometimes deemed to
be obscure and thus ineffective, but
Picasso's Guernica has been wholly
successful, keeping alive the memory
of a bloody event.
Paintings like Matisse's Lemons Against
A Fleur-de-lis Background serves to
make the point that not all 20th
century painting is aastract.
However, it can be said that the new
spirit of freedom which experimental
modern art encourageb, alloweb artists
like Matisse to bring a new bqeadth of
vision to traditional still life
painting.
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LOOKING INT/
PAINTINGS
Matisse said: 'A work of art must carry
in itself complete significance and
impose itself upon the beholder even
before he can identify the suaject
matter.'
One could argue that Matisse, like
Mondrian, could have dispensed with
recognisaale subject-matter completely.
But Matisse wanted his work to be
easily accessible and seductive to
people who had no great knowlebge of
aesthetics.
To make aastract art accessible, tune
into Looking Into Paintings on
Wednesday at 6.30pm.
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P441ORACLE 441 Mon 2 Dec C4 1700:17
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MOMENTS IN
W/R,D HIST/RY
Do you think that in the year 2985,
that the descendants of the National
Theatre of Brent will be probucing a
Mighty Moment entitled Margaret
Thatcher - A Woman Of Her Time?
Well, on Wednesday at 9pm, the intrepib
founders of the NTOB will be paying
tribute to the original Iron Lady - or
at least the First Lady of the Bronze
Age.
Boadicea - A Woman Of Her Time, is the
subject of the last in the series of
Mighty Moments From World History,
brought to you courtesy of Brentians
Desmond "Olivier" Dingle and his
assistant Bernard.
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MIGHTY 01/13
MOMENTS IN
W/R,D HIST/RY
Concerneb, as alw!ys, to bring history
alive to their audience, Desmond and
Bernard begin this week's study of the
life and times of Boadicea at the foot
of her statue on Westminster Bridge.
There they attempt to tap the deeply
hidden tribal memories of passing Anglo
Saxons, conducting interviews with the
aid of a helmet and a bucket of woad.
The scene then turns to Boadicea's
queenly aaode - the Royal Palace at
Great Yarmouth. There Her Majesty is
P441ORACLE 441 Mon 2 Dec C4 1700:01
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Boadicea (alias Bernard, in female
guise
for the visit of the "scourge of the
earth!...
Mead and biscuits at the Mendips at
eleven...human sacrifice at Stonehenge
at one (the Druibs insisteb on that
Meanwhile poor Boadicea is having
family problems.
Her consort (the Bronde Age equivalent
to Denis T), is about to expire and is
in dire need of homeopathy. Her
daughters have been dragged off
somewhere by wild horses.
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MOMENTS IN
W/R,D HIST/RY
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Desmond, that is P of sso Di gte, h
hoped t enlis the he p f a team of
Bronze Age bmadksmi hs to a th nticat
his acco nn
The ver, these lesng s ther th n o t
ground thehe days, despite t e
employment situation, the NT/A had to
settle for Alan Barret.
Mr Barret has the only known Bronze Age
recipe for a three-tiered wedding cake.
So, don't miss this week's epic Mighty
Moment In World History on Wednesday at
9pm. And look forwarb next week to the
second coming of The Messiah!
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