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Painting of the Week Podcast
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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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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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Painting of the Week Podcast

1 Season 5, Ep.11: Tibetan Wheel of Life Thangka 26:23
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For the final episode of Season 5, Phil teams up with his brother Marc to examine his beautiful Christmas present, a stunning depiction of the Buddhist Wheel of Life which Marc brought back from his travels in Nepal... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.10: Wood, Earth, Hoop by Walter Bailey 39:23
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In this week's episode, Phil & Laura talk to Mark Collins, art collector and owner of Artelium Wine Estate in Sussex to discuss a unique sculpture currently residing on their estate... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.9: Orange, Red, Yellow by Mark Rothko 37:05
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A badly needed splash of colour this week as Phil & Laura take a deep dive into a Rothko work which sold in 2012 for the staggering sum of $87 million. Just what lies behind those famous, vibrant rectangles... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.8: Genesis #9/18 by Alan Magee 27:22
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This week, Phil speaks to us from Friday Harbour, San Juan Island, USA with Assistant Curator of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art Wendy Smith about a very unique artwork, finished by a loom in Belgium thousands of miles from the artist who painted it... Support the show
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This week, Phil meets with senior curator Richard Hill from the Vancouver Art Gallery to discuss a moody and mysterious work by the matriarch of Canadian art... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.7: The Haywain Tryptich by Hieronymus Bosch 33:54
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This week, Laura and Phil discuss the eternally bizarre and delightful Bosch, focusing on one of his fabulous triptychs, with this one telling the story of the Fall... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.5: Starry Night over the Rhône by Van Gogh with Martin Bailey 23:23
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The new year kicks off with Phil revisiting Van Gogh’s romantic masterpiece – and the poster image for our smash hit documentary Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers – this time with world Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey at the National Gallery... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.4: Christmas Special - The Monopoly Board, Lizzie Magie 45:00
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In this cosy Christmas special, Laura and Phil sit down with three times British Monopoly champion (and Phil’s brother) Mike and his long-suffering son Alex to discuss the remarkable artwork of the monopoly board over a mince pie or two... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.3: Le Pont-Neuf by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 22:13
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Phil speaks with curator Mary Morton at one of his favourite galleries - the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC - about a poignant view of Paris a year on from one of the worst years in Parisian history... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.2: Christ of Saint John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí 30:45
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In this episode, Phil & Laura look at Dali’s unique take on the crucifixion, supposedly inspired by what Dali called his “cosmic dream” of the universe... Support the show
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1 Season 5, Ep.1: Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy (1889) by Vincent van Gogh 45:31
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Season 5 begins in the warm and inviting olive groves around Saint Remy which Van Gogh painted repeatedly, fascinated as he was by the irregular growth and ever-changing colours... Support the show
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1 Season 4, Ep.10: Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh 36:38
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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 show
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1 Season 4, Ep.9: Augustus of Prima Porta Statue - Vatican Museums 38:03
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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 show
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1 Season 4, Ep.8: Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach by John Constable 27:18
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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 show
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1 Season 4, Ep.7: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez 34:29
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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 show
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1 Season 4, Ep.6: Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando by Edgar Degas 28:49
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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 show
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1 Season 4, Ep.5: Rain, Steam, and Speed by JMW Turner 30:42
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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 show
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1 Season 4, Ep.4: The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci 29:16
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1 Season 4, Ep.3: The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger 34:53
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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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1 Season 4, Ep.2: The AIDS Memorial Quilt with Yvonne Gilleece 30:19
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1 Season 4, Ep.1: Madame X by John Singer Sargent 29:56
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1 Christmas Special: Painting of the Year 1:01:44
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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 show
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1 Season 3, Ep.20, Gustav Klimt - Hermine Gallia 32:36
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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 show
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1 Season 3, Ep.19: Ditchling War Memorial by Eric Gill 30:15
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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 show
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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 show
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1 Season 3, Ep 17: Georges de La Tour - Penitent Magdalen 26:55
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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 show
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1 Season 3, Ep 16: Wilfredo Lam - La Silla (The Chair) 23:32
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1 Season 3, ep.15: Charles Webster Hawthorne - The Boat Steerer 22:35
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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 show
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1 Season 3 Ep.14: John Singer Sargent - El Jaleo 29:29
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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 show
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1 Season 3, Ep 13: Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Bent Knees 30:04
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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 show
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