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WATCH WITHOUT FAST FORWARDING, SORRY FOR AUDIO MISMATCH IF YOU RUN FORWARD. CLIP FROM TAKE HART http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hart http://www.tonyhart.co.uk/tony_hart_tv_career.htm 1980s TV ART with ROLF and TONY. If Des Lynam the long-standing Grandstand anchor gets a new year's honour for years of sports presenting then so should Tony Hart. Tony Hart is the talented TV presenter and teacher who spread his interest in art to children well into the 90s, set up the rudiments of arts and crafts for children's television, and whose formula and style of TV work were followed in Blue Peter, Corners, ArtAttack, Bitsa, and Smart. This TV mainstay began with 'Vision On' (for deaf viewers) and went on to make art accessible to children of all talents and persuasions. As anchoring presenter and artist he had been inspiring school kids long before the 'Why Don't You' motto, to look outside to do sketches and paintings, study objects from life or using your imagination, or else stay inside to stick collages. Since Vision On he made art fun and accessible without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, not dumbing down to kids, and simplifying methodologies in arts and crafts. Like Aussie Rolf Harris, he's a very able fine artist. I put this here as I enjoyed watching another youtube clip (NOT the cheap piss-takes) where he used a paint-roller to draw on a huge area of concrete outside a school (a trademark). When asked, he comments about marking out in advance what you'll draw. He says he NEVER does it, because you'll be looking at where the marks instead of expressing yourself. People might agree it's a mistake, as it stilts a lot of the creativity so important to develop early on. Edgy, on-the-spot creativity mattered: the quick, the spontaneous, the lively. This was typical of his programmes, and like Harris (and other 'old-skoolers') he probably knows a vast amount about the classics hanging in major galleries. Millions relied on Tony Hart as the genuine voice of kids' art. This sort of cred counts for something, and is sorely lacking in kids art TV today. With Hart, quick 'craftsy' methods like tracing, playing with glue and shiny shapes feature widely through TAKE HART and HARTBEAT which I watched. He designed the Blue Peter badge. So there was a place and time for every methodology. Despite sounding like boring backseat educationalists, I'd say there was both an 'exchange' and a 'clear margin' between the craftsy and the refined sides. CARAVAGGIO, VELAZQUEZ, TITIAN. There's a reason they're great, they are 'natural' artists they study from live sittings, don't trace/ measure studies and sketches ..this has become a bugbear for fine-art purists, and I understand why. So-called 'methods' of teaching are changing for the worse in areas of art (observational drafting becoming ignored as it can't be mastered easily). But I can't see teachers in the 80s educating kids to throw out the well-studied manual skills trained by the great masters, from the get-go. Or to sub'ing it, for what are wholesale shortcuts and cheats basically (which some painters are totally dependent on to win their crust). Nowadays some people parade pre-measured, tool-assisted drawing (using rulers and photos) as a replacement for skilful, freehand live studies (as with true observational portraiture e.g. colour, tone, form.) For one thing consider this: lighting, angle, composition etc. for a photo is the actual photographer's skill, plus rapport, timing. Similarly near-total reliance on a light-box, and other reverse engineered skill-cutting DIY 'techniques' seem all designed to make you FEEL like an accomplished master, but as sophisticated as 'painting by numbers'. Actually watching these people working, people don't exclaim: 'GOD! Look at his tracing skill and hand-eye ..measuring-with-a-ruler'. That's not portraiture, it's CDT! It doesn't show the life-study skills of a portrait artist proper, there's a different place for photography and join-the-dots (..stencils, collages). I'm sounding grumpy, yet these are important points many 'classical' artists have thrown out from the process of being genuine. If you have to use a crutch, using a grid involves a level of freehand ability. It helps you to draw objects (from life) without relying on a photo and ruler.Watch Rolf Harris painting the Queen for observational painting, he does it on-the-spot, 'look no rulers'. On a lighter note, Tony has said he'd beat Rolf in a fight because Rolf wouldn't stop his ...verbal flow (might take him seriously, as he was a Gurka officer). From the start, the multi-faceted Rolf catered a more zap-zang animation-based tastes. He delved into new cartooning methods, along with his wobble-board and zany presentation-style. He was really 'down with the kids'! Search 'Making of Real Ghostbusters'. I didn't know Rolf was professional-standard painter until 'Rolf on Art'. There are some good 'Cartoon Time' clips on youtube now, enjoy!

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Uploaded: March 5, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Author: wayzotoichi

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danielraven1 (Friday 14th of November 2008 05:13:51 PM)
He's so genteel. I wish he was my grand-dad.
whathefcukisthis (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 04:46:17 PM)
trouble with tony hart he doesn't ever relate image making to that of the work of a major artist? Never once does he introduce an artist as an example? Picasso? Klee? Van Gogh? Monet? Goya? El Greco? Rothko? Modrian? Pollock? Turner? etc etc etc etc This was Tony Hart's and the BBC'S flaw imo
wayzotoichi (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 12:35:45 AM)
Being a fan I would defend tony Hart's show, but you raise an idea I identify with.There was clearly a lot of drawing in his shows (evidenced by gallery work inspired by him and his presenters),'art history' was a bridge too far for infant schoolers, let alone studying a Rothko! ArtAttack &SmART didn't really cover drawing, Hart's prgrammes catered for crafts too (stencils, tracing, collage)to bridge the gap, provide inspiration for the less able at drawing to do relatively fun & easy work.
wayzotoichi (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 12:41:59 AM)
As I say the millions of chldren watching probably couldn't yet even grasp freehand observational drawing (a basic staple of the great painters!),so though encouraging genuine drawing ability, the job of his show was spreading creativity to the ENTIRE schoolgoing public. Klee, Pollock..etc. was a bridge too far for small kids,I wd have loved to see a Rolf-on-art type series,but not the edgy, quick content children of six gets. imo the bbc's democratic, yet authentically educational programming.
wayzotoichi (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 01:03:52 AM)
sorry *but not the edgy, quick content children of six CAN get (d'oh)
ficklemiss (Sunday 2nd of November 2008 04:00:10 PM)
Brit TV was the best! and the music was spectacular, now all we have is 'Pingu'! pft.. anyhoo, love the background music, certainly does set a peacful sirene mood to the whole thing. Lovely! :)
pirates120 (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 05:42:34 AM)
nooo i wanna know how he gets those shadows! is there a continued video?
wayzotoichi (Wednesday 5th of November 2008 03:44:36 AM)
sorry I don't have any more(!)
pirates120 (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 05:35:24 AM)
hehe i like the change of music - groovey :)
bruceyover (Monday 27th of October 2008 02:52:15 PM)
what great library music