Again from your friends in the US, - you may say you are not an 'artist' but anyone can see how you have created your home and gardens that it is an 'artist' creation. You have used the principles and elements of art successfully in your creation, and probably your study and experience of art makes you all the more successful in that. Thanks again for Artist in Isolation, we can all relate!
I loved learning about Jan Buchanan. There are so many neglected women artists. Tirzah Garwood ( the wife of Eric Ravilious) was another talented woman. Thank you for another superb programme. Perfect for these febrile times.
I find that this series has something very organic to it, when you watch it you can't get enough. You gentleman really make great content. Keep it up!!!!!
4:58 "What makes an original piece of art so special . . ." When you are in the presence of an original work of Art, you are one step away from the act of creativity taking place. You can experience the actual brush strokes and decision making of the artist. This is very difficult or even impossible to replicate in a copy, or a print.
An alternative, perhaps more natural alternative to getting into art collecting is to look to your locality, artists exist every place, city, town and village....seek them out online or at local events. My best tip is to see if there is a longevity to their practice and career..both historically and for the future. Then ask yourself do you like it.
It’s interesting to hear you speak about framing and also the fact that you don’t paint. I am a framer and also an artist , albeit a one of modest talent, but I find the knowledge I have gained through painting absolutely invaluable when it comes to recommending framing solutions to my clients. and being able to speak their ‘language’ really helps.
What a thoroughly enjoyable experience looking at your art, through your eyes. The ease and eloquence with which you describe each piece reminds me why I too collect pictures. Not on the same scale as you, (because I simply don't have the same wall space in mt apartment in Bangkok, where one side is entirely windows onto a balcony). And indeed, I had to offload a few that had been bought at auction in UK, and were sold at Sotheby's or Christie's...a Hoppner, to the Duke of Richmond it turns out, a Seago from the Aga Khan to the developer of his resort in Sardinia, a Lucioni still life and more, which I was sad to let go. The Hoppner had a fascinating provenance, which I thoroughly enjoyed researching, and the information I gleaned helped greatly with its sale at Sotheby's. That it should end up in Goodwood was such a bonus, which I only discovered watching Mary Berry's Country House Secrets, spotting that it had been hung in the Entrance Hall of the house. (The subject was a Lennox ancestor.) Thank you for making the time pass more pleasurably!
To the question "What is art?" A rich Dutchman owned a Piet Mondriaan. He adored the work. (You know one with the black lines and red, yellow and blue squares and rectangles in perfect balance). His wife could not understand that he was so taken away by it. When her husband was on a business trip she let make a copy of the work and hung it in the place of the original. After the Dutchman came back from his trip he said to his wife:" I don't know what happened to me. But the Mondriaan does not touch me anymore". Could it be that the interaction between the piece of art and the observer also is a factor to define if art is art? And could art for one person not be the same for an other?
Thanks so much for your series from a long in the tooth Englishman living out the enforced isolation surrounded by his art collection and books in Western Canada. And not finding it a too bad situation...
You don't need to be able to paint, that's for sure, but if you love art, my God it brings you closer and it gives you an understanding that's not possible without it. It's brought a whole new dimension to my love of art. I see Monet, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Rembrandt and so on so differently now and that's only going to get greater, I can sense that for sure.
Bless you..I'm Paul retired NHS dentist...and..biro artist..!..I was friends..art club...with BUNGY..George Williams...came over from Sydney art school after war..DEEPLY love to show you his works..please give him some space...xxx Paul
I love the composition of the shot in the second half of this film, the armchair in the back is perfectly placed! Also, Oliver moments are a highlight (of my week!) x
Where would artists be without people who genuinely love art? One can love something but not have the ability to do it, look at any concert hall ( in times when we can herd again), what percentage of people could play a cello, piano or other instrument to that level of distinction.......your love of art is inspiring in a time when the world does not settle to contemplate and enjoy works. Artists would be happy if someone called with a little truck, took away the work, delivered food materials and other creature comforts and left us all to it....that's my dream!
What makes an original piece of art so special? To me it is the creative mind that brought that piece into the world, this is what makes an original special. For without that creative mind the piece would not exist. Each brush stoke or addition by the pallet knife is an act of creation by the artist. Once done, yes others can copy, but it will always and only be a copy not an original creation.
Thank you for your videos, I am enjoying them tremendously. I agree with you on the importance of framing. I feel the frame can make or break a picture. I buy a lot of paintings by local artists. Where it might take me a few minutes to decide to buy a painting. I can spend over an hour with the framer, trying to work out the perfect frame to put it in.
Recently discovered these videos . . . the comment about people looking at the labels of pictures in museums brought to mind a memory. When I was an undergraduate at Indiana University, Bloomington, it's then brand-new art museum (the school was very happy to have a new building by I.M. Pei -- talk about provenance) was opened before the labels were put in place. One could look at the art be had no idea who created it . . . and it was great because one brought no preconceptions to making judgements about the work. In a few cases it was eventually clear that there were a number of not so great pieces by great artists included more for the name than merit.
I'm an artist & will bet that the guy who posed the question as to whether you paint or not is as well. It's something that I've wondered for years now. Great answer, by the way!
Thank you so much Phillip and Oliver for sharing your beatiful home and wonderful paintings. I have so enjoyed your talks and have passed on the UA-cam address to my U3A Art History group. I just love Cedric he looks so like my daughter's whippet Guggie, but much much calmer I have to say .
I realize not everyone would live with one but would live with a Bacon in a fast minute. I would love to own a screening Pope. They don’t scare me they intrigue and excite me when I look at one of his works. Thank you for introducing many wonderful English artist to this American. These posts have been entertaining to watch. Curious do you like Lynn Chadwicks work? I do.
another lovley episode. Thank you! Must say, I was intrigued by the blue Nike headbank around your wrist. A part of your style, or some practical function, or both?
Anders Estes Jacobsen, I wondered as well. I’ve often seen people wear similar with midge repellent, but it’s a bit early in the season; though there is a pond quite close, which may exacerbate the situation.
Well let me enlighten. I play tennis most days and don head bands around my wrist in the morning so I don’t forget them. The habit has remained and they have become part of my daily outfit.
Be blessed in and ouy of isolation. Glad u got the pronunciation of that superb Coetzee artist's surname correct. My dad was Fin Sale on e on a letter when we lived in London in 1969. Enjoy this video also i am neq to art. And off course from South Africa 🇿🇦
Philip, Oliver, Cedric and family, Many thanks for sharing your beautiful home, collection, knowledge and experience. I very much look forward to your daily broadcast so please do keep up the wonderful work. Do you have any advice regarding moving painting on after you have enjoyed them for some years? I have moved work around the house which sometime gives another perspective in a new setting but sometimes I feel I have got all I can from a piece and would like to reinvest in a new work. Gary John C
Would love to hear you talk about framing for hours. It's a wonderful topic. (Also - your dog - what a sweetheart. That sigh and snuggle. Just so peaceful)
It can be useful for your collection to have a theme whether a theme of artists, styles, periods or subject, for example. I’ve found it useful to help with decisions!
Thanks for continuing these arty talks.......during the “ great isolation.’ , there have been a lot of specials for the pop culture crowd but not much for the rest of us, so your films are much appreciated. I was very interested in the question.....why is the original important when excellent reproductions are available? I think you did not mention what to me is the most important point. A musician is thrilled to see the hand written score of piece of great music...Beethoven,Elgar or such. We look with reverence at the hand written manuscript of a literary work etc. I have a recipe book written by my my long gone granny, which is so precious to me, why? It is all to do with energy, all of life is to do with energy, that force which is life its self and the moment someone ceases to live....... that energy,it is gone. Creating art, any art starts deep in the brain, inspiration it is ‘magic’. It is true the more you use creativity the more there is but it cannot be forced,try to force it and it just dries up. Looking at an original art piece, your own energy recognizes that other energy of the artistic creator and it bonds. This is also so true of hand writing as the Chinese and Japanese know well, it is a whole separate division of art for them. Reproductions how ever good, just do not hold the energy. I think that frames kind of hold and focus this energy, Most artists will agree, they only really ‘see’, their finished paintings, when they are framed. Another of your correspondents here. Murray Wagnon, mentions brushstrokes....... that brush stroke is the ‘vapour trail’ of the artist’s energy, soul? A connection to the living dimension of the artist. Reproductions don’t carry this energy, that is what you pay for when buying an original in my opinion. We are living in a time when most people type, they do not write, even less write with pen and ink. Indeed I’m told children are not taught how to write any more, By writing I mean forming the actual letters,they are missing the pleasure of a good nib on a fine paper and this will be hard on future historians. Modernity is conspiring to cut us all from each other in so many ways. Thank you .....Jane.
Excellent question about the heat of the kitchen. I wondered about that lovely portrait above the fireplace. It is wonderful. She has such a twinkle in her eye. I made a portrait of my wife , and worked hard to get that look, it’s not easy. Hope your pretty lady is comfortable above your hearth.
Thank you and Oliver for yet another inspiring video. I look forward to them and they certainly add some quality time to my day in isolation. As to the question of 'what makes an original piece of art so special as opposed to a reproduction' I would think the answer for painting is the paint. The magic of the paint itself as laid down by the artist has visual - material qualities that can never be reproduced by a photograph or someone else copying it.
Interesting question on Framing. The best frame I've seen is on Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth which hangs in MOMA New York. In order to focus solely on the artwork it's has the inverse of most frames you see, in other words the highest part is at the edge of the painting and it falls back towards the wall, pushing the image forward. Captivating artwork by a genius, the story behind is amazing too, a whole book devoted to it published by Rizzoli of NY.
Good morning Philip, Oliver and family. A very good friend of mine told me just this evening of your Art in Isolation series, it’s fabulous, thank you for drumming up such an idea, especially as I’m a long serving 40+ years genealogist and house historian. I’ve greatly enjoyed learning all about your beautiful house and it’s custodians, also your fascinating art and pieces too. I was interested to hear Gwen John mentioned, as my grandmother worked as a teenager for Augustus John in Baker St, at the time T.E. Lawrence was siting for his Lawrence of Arabia painting. A couple of years prior to this, our Sir Samuel purchased a Turner called Waterfall on July 1st 1910, and sped from Christies with his purchase. Well I’m in need of a cup of tea now, and so in this short time I’ve researched for you, Jan’s family. I have found a fair bit... especially military and medals wise. James, Jan’s younger brother was a remarkable WW2 RAF Pilot flying officer. Very sadly James was shot down over Weymouth during June 1940, by Oberleutnant Gerhart Framm "Red 1" of 1 / JG27 Squadron, in a Messerschmitt 109. James R. Buchanan is listed amongst the names on the RAF Runnymede Memorial, Surrey. Jan’s father, a Lieutenant Colonel, also with an exemplary military service and a superb rank too, served in H.M. Army throughout India. You are very welcome to get in touch if you’d like to learn more, especially too if you’d like to see a photograph or two of James and all of his medals. Take care, have fun, and thank you again. My very best wishes. Jeremy Stuehmeyer
Thank you! I knew about her brother but not that her father was in India. I bet she was brought up a bit there - I think I can detect a bit of I its influence In the picture. Most appreciative. P
You’re welcome. I meant to also say Janet and James were the only two offspring, their father was actually born in Bellary, Madras, India. Oxenbridge, Iden, their farmhouse in Sussex, has some has some amazing history attached to it, also Paul Nash photographed the old thatched farm house too. Oxenbridge, Iden, Sussex knightlyfamilies.com/oxenbrigge.htm It’s occupants may well have crossed paths with yours too. I was going to email you some more details and images, sorry I have a little more research of my own to finish off, haha before I have to get up... so, I’ll email you tomorrow. My best wishes. Jeremy
Hello Philip and Oliver, hope your both well. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, love the series. Question for you. I'm an advertising Art Director , started my career in London in the early 90s. As an Art Director, we strategize, and create ideas for our well known client's. My sketch book is full of ideas some of which have ended up being very successful brand campaigns. Is there a market for that kind of work. Look forward to your feedback. Regards Howard 🙂🇬🇧
Hello from Louisville, Kentucky. My wife and I enjoyed your insight on Fake or Fortune. Sometime back, our daughter and her husband who live in Baltimore Maryland recommended F or F to us which we saw on Netflix. I am not sure how, but your UA-cam channel just popped up as recommended. I subscribed and we will enjoy your “back catalog” of offerings and look forward to future videos. Thanks.
Dear Mr. Mould, besides being an art lover, I seem to be an anglophile as well. As such I am very interested in the so called posh english. As a German I would rather call it selected language. Watching yor shows, I am not only able to learn but also enjoy both at the same time. Moreover it saves me the trouble to watch posh english lessons.
My friend, the reason an original work is worth lot more than a copy is the fact that the artist had to compose it, and he also figured out what colors to use (and how to mix them). Copying is lot easier since the way has already been shown. You could have used a different analogy to shed some light on it by comparing it to climbing Mount Everest for the first time. Since the first climb, many have ascended it, but not many people remember their names. To paint a picture for the first time requires a composition. This element is overlooked these days. It used to be of a paramount importance. "Expromanticism Founder"
Clear Turing Pattern in the Ripolin paint on the Coetzee painting at 3:21 very similar to the brain coral pattern and some fish. Must be created when the paint does not dry thoroughly and forms a skin, pouring thinners on the skin could cause the 'morphogenesis' or a sharp change in temperate. I see the Ripolin paint had a high lead, zinc content, that could result in good elasticity and the resulting Turing pattern. In present day enamel paint, I have only seen a random wrinkled pattern, possibly with the right reagent a 'natural' pattern could occur - natural as in the brain coral.
What an enjoyable way to start the morning, a cup of coffee and Art in Isolation for breakfast - excellent combination and highly recommended for everyone :) As always, a very interesting episode. Thank you so much Philip & Oliver. ps. Do you have any plans to make an episode of miniatures?
You can paint, it is a learnt skill which like most things improves with practice. What defines a great artist in my opinion is imagination combined with the skill.
Within all the wonderful works of art you have been talking about ( and I have to thank you for how much I have learnt with you!), Where does watercolour stands, concerning value and art?
Diolch yn Fawr Iawn, we've had to miss the last erm and final project of our Art course in North Wales. This is an unexpected surprise. I adore the Art of Kyffin Williams and as you say the colours that are so unique to this area. He sometimes goes a bit footloose and throws in that dull yellow sky that appears when snow is on the way
Is there one painting that speaks to you more in this time of isolation. Either because it expresses isolation or because it expresses hope or freedom.
Good morning from Italy Phillip, I’m enjoying your program so much, even though I am very late finding you….. and your Marvelous program Fake or Fortune I’m enjoying enormously 😊. Can I ask? Is that an Artemisia on your wall at your home? The hands and face seem very similar to me from seeing some of her other paintings, although I’m a complete novice, you regularly enthuse over female work from history and Artemisia Gentileschi is a favourite of mine for several reasons. Thank you for educating me, during the past months I’ve been immersed in your opinions of art …..thank you very much, warm regards Louise Parnell.
I wish you were my neighbour, Philip. I do have a small art collection and would love to have conversations with you and Oliver. I would also be able to offer you both a G&T or a glass of wine as well as appies. I am inspired by your video vlogs. Thank you so much. Regards, Darryl
I think, in my opinion anyway that your voice is so easy to listen to that I will get a coffee and just sit and watch your posts. Normally I will put artists documentaries on and carry on drawing or painting. I well understand the Francis Bacon theroy but what about David Hockney? He is certainly one of my most admired during this pandemic. Would you purchase a David Hockney? if you could that is I am sure they are well over most peoples budgets. Thank you again for doing these videos with your son. stay safe. Follower from Nova Scotia, Canada
I often wonder how modern painters of today put a price on there paintings wether famous or not when selling them in exhibitions. With such variations in value Some are quite respectable and some are outrageous I’ve often heard it said never price your paintings to low people will think less of the painting /artist compared to a higher value. Painting. Fascinating episode. You and Oliver make a good team.
Wonderful questions and answers. Now I have no need to ask about climate control in a house and the affect on the artworks. On collecting for most people, should it not start with what you like and want to live with, versus what is worth collecting?
Ripolin : yes a household paint as used extensively by Picasso & Braque during their development of Cubism. Maybe it's use came initially from Braque who came from a family of house painters and he worked with his father in his youth. Also of course Picasso was a great experimenter anyway.
Thank you so much for your videos. I look forward to seeing them and enjoy them so greatly. I agree about Francis Bacon! While I admire his skill and technique, his art does not inspire the feelings or emotional connection I look for in the art I want to hang and display in my home. The imagery is too dark and disturbing.
I like very much your videos.It is very interesting and very useful information how to identify pictures,sculptures and what need to look for. You like to attend to Antique Road shows and I want to ask about it information. Do you think this summer it will be ?I have pictures and I guess who can be painters but I need professional help about it.What you can recommend? Many thanks
Lovely winged back chairs in this episode Philip....are they original of the era ?....they look so very beautiful and of great comfort ......function in that you can rest your head if you wish to have a sleep 😀
(6:08)- no, I think it's because of the paint fitting on that particular canvas, also because the paints and everything have their different essences, and because something of the artist's presence, gets into the painting. there is harmony and impact in the presence of it all - on the other hand, a print is printed on just about any old piece of paper, and has no actual relationship with the painting, or, more dynamically, has a different relationship to the painting than the canvas does, actually changing the real content of the picture, introducing a new material, - which lessens the totality of the painting...in real life, there is no comparison between viewing the original, and viewing a print, in terms of the feeling of the painting - yes?
I love your shows. I think I’ve watched every fake or fortune in the last 48 hours. I’m pleased to have come across your shows. I’m curious what you think about contemporary Peruvian artists. My family has been collecting Peruvian artists for some time now. I live in NY born and raised although my family is from Peru. In one of your shows you had a possible Gauguin; fruits on a table. There’s a Peruvian artist Ricardo Grau who lived in France during that same time. That P may be an R. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on contemporary Peruvian artist like Camilo Blas, Julia Codesido, Ángel Chávez or his brother Gerardo. Or even Sabogal himself. There’s just so many really. Victor Humareda is an artist I’m just now studying although I don’t own any of his art yet.
wonderful program yet again..i myself have been thinking of starting a miniature portrait collection for years now..maybe its time to get a bit more serious about it now. i got your email and it is vey interesting and helpful..only thing is I live in Melbourne Australia so not certain how to go about it here..
Good afternoon, Carine. Our miniatures expert, Emma Rutherford, would be delighted to reach out to you to discuss your interest in collecting miniatures. Please do let us know if you are happy for her to email you directly.
Love your fireside chats and great insight. I think you got the colour story spot on. Were you interested in art before you studied it. How did it start.?
Hello....I would like to ask what you would do if you had a large painting that you had no room for and needed to store it ,then what storage solutions would you use ?
Interesting point about artists sometimes being too sympathetic to the process of making to look at an image separately from the act of creation. It is perhaps worth mentioning as a counterpoint that both artists and conservators are often considered to be the most astute connoisseurs.
The original artist is the person who had the vision and the concept for the picture. In my opinion, the the creativity of the original artist makes the original more valuable than any copy regardless of its quality.
I read somewhere that hundred of years ago the wealthy would commission copies of say Italian Renaissance pictures and that a good copy was not regarded as grossly inferior to the original since it was the ideas on the canvas rather than the artist's hand which mattered. At the time it seems artists were trained by copying. And of course prints 'after' whatever were made.
Thank you again for an informative programme. I would just like to ask you: what do you think of non-objective painting? Do you think that form and colour have to be have to be put at the service or representation? I hope you do not find this question inappropriate.
I want to like Bacon so much. I am actually reading a biography about him to maybe get to know him better. I don't think that I could bring his visions into my small country house. I will keep trying to better understand what makes his work so scary to me.
Again from your friends in the US, - you may say you are not an 'artist' but anyone can see how you have created your home and gardens that it is an 'artist' creation. You have used the principles and elements of art successfully in your creation, and probably your study and experience of art makes you all the more successful in that. Thanks again for Artist in Isolation, we can all relate!
A wonderful compliment, thank you.
@@philipmouldco4360 You're welcome!
Maybe not an artist with paint and canvas but definitely an artist in his own right!
I loved learning about Jan Buchanan. There are so many neglected women artists. Tirzah Garwood ( the wife of Eric Ravilious) was another talented woman. Thank you for another superb programme. Perfect for these febrile times.
There is much more research to be conducted in these areas - we agree! Thank you for your kind words. ES
There are many forms of art: you ARE an artist!
You and your son are sharing a beautiful gift with us through these videos. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge.
Thank you.
Philip and Oliver thanks so much for a quality product! Your intelligent and informative content will keep everyone coming back for more. 🤗
Thank you for your kind words.
I find that this series has something very organic to it, when you watch it you can't get enough. You gentleman really make great content. Keep it up!!!!!
It will be difficult to top this episode but I’m looking forward to the next one. Thoroughly enjoyable lesson about how art can enrich one’s life -
4:58 "What makes an original piece of art so special . . ." When you are in the presence of an original work of Art, you are one step away from the act of creativity taking place. You can experience the actual brush strokes and decision making of the artist. This is very difficult or even impossible to replicate in a copy, or a print.
My thoughts exactly. Alas, my budget does not allow for much more than prints...
Fascinating as usual. I believe the Abstract Expressionists in NY used house paint because it was cheaper and their canvases so large.
An alternative, perhaps more natural alternative to getting into art collecting is to look to your locality, artists exist every place, city, town and village....seek them out online or at local events. My best tip is to see if there is a longevity to their practice and career..both historically and for the future. Then ask yourself do you like it.
David Wood Painting and Plein Air I agree wholeheartedly...but then again I'm a local artist! Stay safe x
I'm so glad that you commented, David!
It’s interesting to hear you speak about framing and also the fact that you don’t paint. I am a framer and also an artist , albeit a one of modest talent, but I find the knowledge I have gained through painting absolutely invaluable when it comes to recommending framing solutions to my clients. and being able to speak their ‘language’ really helps.
What a thoroughly enjoyable experience looking at your art, through your eyes. The ease and eloquence with which you describe each piece reminds me why I too collect pictures. Not on the same scale as you, (because I simply don't have the same wall space in mt apartment in Bangkok, where one side is entirely windows onto a balcony). And indeed, I had to offload a few that had been bought at auction in UK, and were sold at Sotheby's or Christie's...a Hoppner, to the Duke of Richmond it turns out, a Seago from the Aga Khan to the developer of his resort in Sardinia, a Lucioni still life and more, which I was sad to let go. The Hoppner had a fascinating provenance, which I thoroughly enjoyed researching, and the information I gleaned helped greatly with its sale at Sotheby's. That it should end up in Goodwood was such a bonus, which I only discovered watching Mary Berry's Country House Secrets, spotting that it had been hung in the Entrance Hall of the house. (The subject was a Lennox ancestor.) Thank you for making the time pass more pleasurably!
To the question "What is art?" A rich Dutchman owned a Piet Mondriaan. He adored the work. (You know one with the black lines and red, yellow and blue squares and rectangles in perfect balance). His wife could not understand that he was so taken away by it. When her husband was on a business trip she let make a copy of the work and hung it in the place of the original. After the Dutchman came back from his trip he said to his wife:" I don't know what happened to me. But the Mondriaan does not touch me anymore". Could it be that the interaction between the piece of art and the observer also is a factor to define if art is art? And could art for one person not be the same for an other?
Thanks so much for your series from a long in the tooth Englishman living out the enforced isolation surrounded by his art collection and books in Western Canada. And not finding it a too bad situation...
love ur work and ur look.......
You don't need to be able to paint, that's for sure, but if you love art, my God it brings you closer and it gives you an understanding that's not possible without it. It's brought a whole new dimension to my love of art. I see Monet, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Rembrandt and so on so differently now and that's only going to get greater, I can sense that for sure.
Such great revelations ...Thankyou Philip
Wonderful series and a pleasure to listen to Philip Mould talking about art.
Bless you..I'm Paul retired NHS dentist...and..biro artist..!..I was friends..art club...with BUNGY..George Williams...came over from Sydney art school after war..DEEPLY love to show you his works..please give him some space...xxx Paul
I love the composition of the shot in the second half of this film, the armchair in the back is perfectly placed! Also, Oliver moments are a highlight (of my week!) x
I love your channel. Your passion for art is contagious.
Thank you once again for coming to us. It's great to hear your perspective on things.
Love this series..Thanks so much from Toronto!
Where would artists be without people who genuinely love art? One can love something but not have the ability to do it, look at any concert hall ( in times when we can herd again), what percentage of people could play a cello, piano or other instrument to that level of distinction.......your love of art is inspiring in a time when the world does not settle to contemplate and enjoy works. Artists would be happy if someone called with a little truck, took away the work, delivered food materials and other creature comforts and left us all to it....that's my dream!
What makes an original piece of art so special? To me it is the creative mind that brought that piece into the world, this is what makes an original special. For without that creative mind the piece would not exist. Each brush stoke or addition by the pallet knife is an act of creation by the artist. Once done, yes others can copy, but it will always and only be a copy not an original creation.
Thank you for your videos, I am enjoying them tremendously.
I agree with you on the importance of framing. I feel the frame can make or break a picture. I buy a lot of paintings by local artists. Where it might take me a few minutes to decide to buy a painting. I can spend over an hour with the framer, trying to work out the perfect frame to put it in.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for this series Philip and Oliver 😊
Thank you for joining us.
Recently discovered these videos . . . the comment about people looking at the labels of pictures in museums brought to mind a memory.
When I was an undergraduate at Indiana University, Bloomington, it's then brand-new art museum (the school was very happy to have a new building by I.M. Pei -- talk about provenance) was opened before the labels were put in place. One could look at the art be had no idea who created it . . . and it was great because one brought no preconceptions to making judgements about the work. In a few cases it was eventually clear that there were a number of not so great pieces by great artists included more for the name than merit.
I'm an artist & will bet that the guy who posed the question as to whether you paint or not is as well. It's something that I've wondered for years now. Great answer, by the way!
I found your commentary on complimentary color to be quite insightful. Thank you for your efforts and wonderful content.
Excellent questions followed by excellent answers the videos never seem longenith marvoloso 👍👌🎨
2:35 Ripolin household paint! Thanks for tracking down an answer to the "peculiar strokes". Truth stranger than fiction.
Anyone familiar with using and storing old cans of house paint would recognize that immediately. I did.
It's such fun--as well as educational, revisiting this marvelous series.
And I have the same lamp (though a different shade) in my entrance hall.
Your take on color was fascinating.I absolutely agree with you.
Thank you so much Phillip and Oliver for sharing your beatiful home and wonderful paintings. I have so enjoyed your talks and have passed on the UA-cam address to my U3A Art History group. I just love Cedric he looks so like my daughter's whippet Guggie, but much much calmer I have to say .
The new collectors idea is inspired. It is a great idea to introduce the wider public to fine art.
I absolutely wholeheartedly categorically love you , you make life nice. You're Agatha Christie of the art world. Stay safe be happy x
I realize not everyone would live with one but would live with a Bacon in a fast minute. I would love to own a screening Pope. They don’t scare me they intrigue and excite me when I look at one of his works. Thank you for introducing many wonderful English artist to this American. These posts have been entertaining to watch. Curious do you like Lynn Chadwicks work? I do.
another lovley episode. Thank you! Must say, I was intrigued by the blue Nike headbank around your wrist.
A part of your style, or some practical function, or both?
Anders Estes Jacobsen, I wondered as well. I’ve often seen people wear similar with midge repellent, but it’s a bit early in the season; though there is a pond quite close, which may exacerbate the situation.
Well let me enlighten. I play tennis most days and don head bands around my wrist in the morning so I don’t forget them. The habit has remained and they have become part of my daily outfit.
Be blessed in and ouy of isolation. Glad u got the pronunciation of that superb Coetzee artist's surname correct. My dad was Fin Sale on e on a letter when we lived in London in 1969. Enjoy this video also i am neq to art. And off course from South Africa 🇿🇦
thank you so much for this series ...I'm learning so much...and enjoying the process
Philip, Oliver, Cedric and family,
Many thanks for sharing your beautiful home, collection, knowledge and experience. I very much look forward to your daily broadcast so please do keep up the wonderful work.
Do you have any advice regarding moving painting on after you have enjoyed them for some years? I have moved work around the house which sometime gives another perspective in a new setting but sometimes I feel I have got all I can from a piece and would like to reinvest in a new work.
Gary John C
Would love to hear you talk about framing for hours. It's a wonderful topic. (Also - your dog - what a sweetheart. That sigh and snuggle. Just so peaceful)
I noticed Cedric having a little nap on the sofa
I love the subject of frames and would love to learn more about this topic
Such an enjoyable series. You are such lovely kind folk ,blessings xx❤️
It can be useful for your collection to have a theme whether a theme of artists, styles, periods or subject, for example. I’ve found it useful to help with decisions!
Thanks for continuing these arty talks.......during the “ great isolation.’ , there have been a lot of specials for the pop culture crowd but not much for the rest of us, so your films are much appreciated. I was very interested in the question.....why is the original important when excellent reproductions are available? I think you did not mention what to me is the most important point. A musician is thrilled to see the hand written score of piece of great music...Beethoven,Elgar or such. We look with reverence at the hand written manuscript of a literary work etc. I have a recipe book written by my my long gone granny, which is so precious to me, why? It is all to do with energy, all of life is to do with energy, that force which is life its self and the moment someone ceases to live....... that energy,it is gone. Creating art, any art starts deep in the brain, inspiration it is ‘magic’. It is true the more you use creativity the more there is but it cannot be forced,try to force it and it just dries up. Looking at an original art piece, your own energy recognizes that other energy of the artistic creator and it bonds. This is also so true of hand writing as the Chinese and Japanese know well, it is a whole separate division of art for them. Reproductions how ever good, just do not hold the energy. I think that frames kind of hold and focus this energy, Most artists will agree, they only really ‘see’, their finished paintings, when they are framed. Another of your correspondents here. Murray Wagnon, mentions brushstrokes....... that brush stroke is the ‘vapour trail’ of the artist’s energy, soul? A connection to the living dimension of the artist. Reproductions don’t carry this energy, that is what you pay for when buying an original in my opinion. We are living in a time when most people type, they do not write, even less write with pen and ink. Indeed I’m told children are not taught how to write any more, By writing I mean forming the actual letters,they are missing the pleasure of a good nib on a fine paper and this will be hard on future historians. Modernity is conspiring to cut us all from each other in so many ways. Thank you .....Jane.
Excellent question about the heat of the kitchen. I wondered about that lovely portrait above the fireplace. It is wonderful. She has such a twinkle in her eye. I made a portrait of my wife , and worked hard to get that look, it’s not easy. Hope your pretty lady is comfortable above your hearth.
every enjoyable 😊. I find myself looking forward to these videos
We look forward to your comments too!
Thank you and Oliver for yet another inspiring video. I look forward to them and they certainly add some quality time to my day in isolation.
As to the question of 'what makes an original piece of art so special as opposed to a reproduction' I would think the answer for painting is the paint. The magic of the paint itself as laid down by the artist has visual - material qualities that can never be reproduced by a photograph or someone else copying it.
An interesting thought, thank you for sharing!
Interesting question on Framing. The best frame I've seen is on Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth which hangs in MOMA New York. In order to focus solely on the artwork it's has the inverse of most frames you see, in other words the highest part is at the edge of the painting and it falls back towards the wall, pushing the image forward. Captivating artwork by a genius, the story behind is amazing too, a whole book devoted to it published by Rizzoli of NY.
Good morning Philip, Oliver and family.
A very good friend of mine told me just this evening of your Art in Isolation series, it’s fabulous, thank you for drumming up such an idea, especially as I’m a long serving 40+ years genealogist and house historian.
I’ve greatly enjoyed learning all about your beautiful house and it’s custodians, also your fascinating art and pieces too.
I was interested to hear Gwen John mentioned, as my grandmother worked as a teenager for Augustus John in Baker St, at the time T.E. Lawrence was siting for his Lawrence of Arabia painting. A couple of years prior to this, our Sir Samuel purchased a Turner called Waterfall on July 1st 1910, and sped from Christies with his purchase.
Well I’m in need of a cup of tea now, and so in this short time I’ve researched for you, Jan’s family.
I have found a fair bit... especially military and medals wise.
James, Jan’s younger brother was a remarkable WW2 RAF Pilot flying officer. Very sadly James was shot down over Weymouth during June 1940, by Oberleutnant Gerhart Framm "Red 1" of 1 / JG27 Squadron, in a Messerschmitt 109.
James R. Buchanan is listed amongst the names on the RAF Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
Jan’s father, a Lieutenant Colonel, also with an exemplary military service and a superb rank too, served in H.M. Army throughout India.
You are very welcome to get in touch if you’d like to learn more, especially too if you’d like to see a photograph or two of James and all of his medals.
Take care, have fun, and thank you again.
My very best wishes.
Jeremy
Stuehmeyer
Thank you! I knew about her brother but not that her father was in India. I bet she was brought up a bit there - I think I can detect a bit of I its influence In the picture.
Most appreciative. P
You’re welcome.
I meant to also say Janet and James were the only two offspring, their father was actually born in Bellary, Madras, India.
Oxenbridge, Iden, their farmhouse in Sussex, has some has some amazing history attached to it, also Paul Nash photographed the old thatched farm house too.
Oxenbridge, Iden, Sussex
knightlyfamilies.com/oxenbrigge.htm It’s occupants may well have crossed paths with yours too.
I was going to email you some more details and images, sorry I have a little more research of my own to finish off, haha before I have to get up... so, I’ll email you tomorrow.
My best wishes.
Jeremy
Hello Philip and Oliver, hope your both well.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, love the series.
Question for you. I'm an advertising Art Director , started my career in London in the early 90s. As an Art Director, we strategize, and create ideas for our well known client's. My sketch book is full of ideas some of which have ended up being very successful brand campaigns. Is there a market for that kind of work. Look forward to your feedback. Regards Howard 🙂🇬🇧
Hello from Louisville, Kentucky. My wife and I enjoyed your insight on Fake or Fortune. Sometime back, our daughter and her husband who live in Baltimore Maryland recommended F or F to us which we saw on Netflix. I am not sure how, but your UA-cam channel just popped up as recommended. I subscribed and we will enjoy your “back catalog” of offerings and look forward to future videos. Thanks.
Thank you for joining us. We hope that you enjoy the Art in Isolation series.
Dear Mr. Mould, besides being an art lover, I seem to be an anglophile as well. As such I am very interested in the so called posh english. As a German I would rather call it selected language. Watching yor shows, I am not only able to learn but also enjoy both at the same time. Moreover it saves me the trouble to watch posh english lessons.
I'd live with a Bacon painting, especially the screaming bishop. They're incredible.
My friend, the reason an original work is worth lot more than a copy is the fact that the artist had to compose it, and he also figured out what colors to use (and how to mix them). Copying is lot easier since the way has already been shown. You could have used a different analogy to shed some light on it by comparing it to climbing Mount Everest for the first time. Since the first climb, many have ascended it, but not many people remember their names. To paint a picture for the first time requires a composition. This element is overlooked these days. It used to be of a paramount importance. "Expromanticism Founder"
Clear Turing Pattern in the Ripolin paint on the Coetzee painting at 3:21 very similar to the brain coral pattern and some fish. Must be created when the paint does not dry thoroughly and forms a skin, pouring thinners on the skin could cause the 'morphogenesis' or a sharp change in temperate. I see the Ripolin paint had a high lead, zinc content, that could result in good elasticity and the resulting Turing pattern. In present day enamel paint, I have only seen a random wrinkled pattern, possibly with the right reagent a 'natural' pattern could occur - natural as in the brain coral.
What an enjoyable way to start the morning, a cup of coffee and Art in Isolation for breakfast - excellent combination and highly recommended for everyone :) As always, a very interesting episode. Thank you so much Philip & Oliver.
ps. Do you have any plans to make an episode of miniatures?
You can paint, it is a learnt skill which like most things improves with practice. What defines a great artist in my opinion is imagination combined with the skill.
Within all the wonderful works of art you have been talking about ( and I have to thank you for how much I have learnt with you!), Where does watercolour stands, concerning value and art?
I used that household paint, too, to get the same effect, while the paint was drying at the canvas. Funny to meet that here, too.
Diolch yn Fawr Iawn, we've had to miss the last erm and final project of our Art course in North Wales. This is an unexpected surprise. I adore the Art of Kyffin Williams and as you say the colours that are so unique to this area. He sometimes goes a bit footloose and throws in that dull yellow sky that appears when snow is on the way
Lovely colour-matched sofa cushion moves and makes me jump! Oh, that's Cedric, the not quite still life 😘
I never thought I’d say this, but “I want to know more about frames!” Tell us more. - Friends in Ben Lomond California
Enjoyed this..💝🌌🎇thank you..
Is there one painting that speaks to you more in this time of isolation. Either because it expresses isolation or because it expresses hope or freedom.
Andrew Wyeth
Good morning from Italy Phillip, I’m enjoying your program so much, even though I am very late finding you….. and your Marvelous program Fake or Fortune I’m enjoying enormously 😊. Can I ask? Is that an Artemisia on your wall at your home? The hands and face seem very similar to me from seeing some of her other paintings, although I’m a complete novice, you regularly enthuse over female work from history and Artemisia Gentileschi is a favourite of mine for several reasons. Thank you for educating me, during the past months I’ve been immersed in your opinions of art …..thank you very much, warm regards Louise Parnell.
you can be an artist its about yourself it brings out the you in you
I wish you were my neighbour, Philip. I do have a small art collection and would love to have conversations with you and Oliver. I would also be able to offer
you both a G&T or a glass of wine as well as appies. I am inspired by your video vlogs. Thank you so much. Regards,
Darryl
Love everyone of his videos. sub
I think, in my opinion anyway that your voice is so easy to listen to that I will get a coffee and just sit and watch your posts. Normally I will put artists documentaries on and carry on drawing or painting. I well understand the Francis Bacon theroy but what about David Hockney? He is certainly one of my most admired during this pandemic. Would you purchase a David Hockney? if you could that is I am sure they are well over most peoples budgets.
Thank you again for doing these videos with your son. stay safe.
Follower from Nova Scotia, Canada
If you were adding to your collection , where would Canadian artists and art fit? Or would they? Why/why not?
You commented today how important frames are, which agree. Why is it that art books hardly ever show the work in the frame?
I like his take on color. I never thought of it that way.
Bacon, a true genius, is an art dish best served cold in a Museum, LOL.
I often wonder how modern painters of today put a price on there paintings wether famous or not when selling them in exhibitions. With such variations in value Some are quite respectable and some are outrageous
I’ve often heard it said never price your paintings to low people will think less of the painting /artist compared to a higher value. Painting. Fascinating episode. You and Oliver make a good team.
Wonderful questions and answers. Now I have no need to ask about climate control in a house and the affect on the artworks. On collecting for most people, should it not start with what you like and want to live with, versus what is worth collecting?
Ripolin : yes a household paint as used extensively by Picasso & Braque during their development of Cubism. Maybe it's use came initially from Braque who came from a family of house painters and he worked with his father in his youth. Also of course Picasso was a great experimenter anyway.
Thank you so much for your videos. I look forward to seeing them and enjoy them so greatly.
I agree about Francis Bacon! While I admire his skill and technique, his art does not inspire the feelings or emotional connection I look for in the art I want to hang and display in my home. The imagery is too dark and disturbing.
I like very much your videos.It is very interesting and very useful information how to identify pictures,sculptures and what need to look for.
You like to attend to Antique Road shows and I want to ask about it information. Do you think this summer it will be ?I have pictures and I guess who can be painters but I need professional help about it.What you can recommend?
Many thanks
Lovely winged back chairs in this episode Philip....are they original of the era ?....they look so very beautiful and of great comfort ......function in that you can rest your head if you wish to have a sleep 😀
Picasso was one of the first to use Ripolin house paint, which was the first commercially available house paint/
(6:08)- no, I think it's because of the paint fitting on that particular canvas, also because the paints and everything have their different essences, and because something of the artist's presence, gets into the painting. there is harmony and impact in the presence of it all - on the other hand, a print is printed on just about any old piece of paper, and has no actual relationship with the painting, or, more dynamically, has a different relationship to the painting than the canvas does, actually changing the real content of the picture, introducing a new material, - which lessens the totality of the painting...in real life, there is no comparison between viewing the original, and viewing a print, in terms of the feeling of the painting - yes?
I love your shows. I think I’ve watched every fake or fortune in the last 48 hours. I’m pleased to have come across your shows. I’m curious what you think about contemporary Peruvian artists. My family has been collecting Peruvian artists for some time now. I live in NY born and raised although my family is from Peru. In one of your shows you had a possible Gauguin; fruits on a table. There’s a Peruvian artist Ricardo Grau who lived in France during that same time. That P may be an R. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on contemporary Peruvian artist like Camilo Blas, Julia Codesido, Ángel Chávez or his brother Gerardo. Or even Sabogal himself. There’s just so many really. Victor Humareda is an artist I’m just now studying although I don’t own any of his art yet.
wonderful program yet again..i myself have been thinking of starting a miniature portrait collection for years now..maybe its time to get a bit more serious about it now. i got your email and it is vey interesting and helpful..only thing is I live in Melbourne Australia so not certain how to go about it here..
Good afternoon, Carine. Our miniatures expert, Emma Rutherford, would be delighted to reach out to you to discuss your interest in collecting miniatures. Please do let us know if you are happy for her to email you directly.
Love your fireside chats and great insight. I think you got the colour story spot on. Were you interested in art before you studied it. How did it start.?
Hello....I would like to ask what you would do if you had a large painting that you had no room for and needed to store it ,then what storage solutions would you use ?
I couldn’t live with a Bacon but give me a Lucian Freud any day of the week!
Interesting point about artists sometimes being too sympathetic to the process of making to look at an image separately from the act of creation. It is perhaps worth mentioning as a counterpoint that both artists and conservators are often considered to be the most astute connoisseurs.
Indeed. A multitude of differing opinions, expertise and experiences is beneficial. ES
You could do a broadcast about frames ?
Still think the David Hill picture is my favourite
I couldn’t live with a Francis Bacon work either - I can’t afford it! Thanks again, take care gents.
Remember that medieval picture found in an Italian elder's kitchen over cooker. Didn't it sell for a fortune. On board, what repairs were needed.
The original artist is the person who had the vision and the concept for the picture. In my opinion, the the creativity of the original artist makes the original more valuable than any copy regardless of its quality.
I read somewhere that hundred of years ago the wealthy would commission copies of say Italian Renaissance pictures and that a good copy was not regarded as grossly inferior to the original since it was the ideas on the canvas rather than the artist's hand which mattered. At the time it seems artists were trained by copying. And of course prints 'after' whatever were made.
Thank you again for an informative programme. I would just like to ask you: what do you think of non-objective painting? Do you think that form and colour have to be have to be put at the service or representation? I hope you do not find this question inappropriate.
Thank you
Thank you!
I want to like Bacon so much. I am actually reading a biography about him to maybe get to know him better. I don't think that I could bring his visions into my small country house. I will keep trying to better understand what makes his work so scary to me.