Reflections: Art, Life and Love

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Ewen Bremner explores the human experience through great artworks, and the people behind them, created by the National Galleries of Scotland.  How does art reflect the lives and experiences of different people, places and times? How do our experiences and lives reflect art? Thanks to artists, experts, our visitors and those living and working creatively Ewen explores big ideas in our main episodes, as well as six fascinating bonus stories drawn from these interviews.

  1. SEASON 1, EPISODE 6 TRAILER

    Discovering The Two Roberts & Dalziel and Scullion

    What makes a great partnership? And does that mean it’s good for everyone involved? Patrick Elliot explains the explosive partnership of Robert Macbride and Robert Colquhoun, and to contrast we hear from one of Scotland’s most established contemporary partnerships, Dalziel and Scullion, on how they make it work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    11 min

  2. 12/04/2019

    Partnerships & Relationships

    What makes an artistic partnership? Where is it healthy and how can it be destructive? In this episode we find out how powerful partnerships can transcend time and place and cause the people involved to generate some of the most powerful works in history. We’ll hear the tragic tale of Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and explore the joyful friendship between Picasso and Lee Miller. Artist Julian Bell explains the stormy relationship between Van Gogh and Gaugin and we hear from Dalziel and Scullion on how they work together creativity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    23 min
  3. Discovering Richard Dadd

    11/27/2019 · BONUS

    Discovering Richard Dadd

    We hear the full interview with Nick Tromans, author of Richard Dadd; The Artist and the Asylum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    20 min
  4. The Mind

    11/24/2019

    The Mind

    Picasso said “the purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”. So how does art help us communicate with our inner experience and process life events? In this episode we look at how creative work can be a tool to make sense of events or changing times, to share or interrogate emotions and ideas and to communicate experience without words. This episode explores the famous case of Richard Dadd, the visionary Victorian painter and asylum patient, and features interviews with artist Henry Coombes on his work as a therapist, and the charity Artlink on their innovative work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    21 min
  5. Discovering The Grand Tour

    11/14/2019 · BONUS

    Discovering The Grand Tour

    Professor Jeremy Black explains the nuanced experiences offered by the 18th Century Grand Tour and its impact on British art and culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    15 min
  6. Artists and Travel

    11/06/2019

    Artists and Travel

    How is it possible to capture another world or time in a canvas, sculpture, photograph or sketchbook? What do these works tell us about how the artist views their own culture? And how does it cause us to reflect on our own? From the art and architecture inspired by the revered remains of Palmyra, to the impact of the 18th Century Grand Tour, we find out how Western aesthetics have evolved, and ask how photography may make the realities of war and faraway cultures tangible. Guests include Professor Jeremy Black from the University of Exeter and Photographer Sophie Gerrard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    26 min
  7. Discovering Leonora Carrington

    10/30/2019 · BONUS

    Discovering Leonora Carrington

    Tthe full interview of how journalist Joanna Moorhead uncovered a little-talked about link in her family history, and formed a life-changing friendship with the artist Leonora Carrington. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    6 min
  8. Representing Women

    10/23/2019

    Representing Women

    We discover how women creating art have depicted their identities, bodies and those of other women independent to the male gaze. We find out about Leonora Carrington’s artistic emancipation, touch upon photographer Francesca Woodman’s use of her own body and discover the satirical humour of Sarah Lucas. Then Jenny Saville explains how her understanding of the human figure was transformed by carrying a child. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    26 min
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Ewen Bremner explores the human experience through great artworks, and the people behind them, created by the National Galleries of Scotland.  How does art reflect the lives and experiences of different people, places and times? How do our experiences and lives reflect art? Thanks to artists, experts, our visitors and those living and working creatively Ewen explores big ideas in our main episodes, as well as six fascinating bonus stories drawn from these interviews.

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    National Galleries of Scotland
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  • Episodes
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