Painting of the Week Podcast

Seventh Art Productions

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 read less

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Season 4, Ep.1: Madame X by John Singer Sargent

Season 4, Ep.1: Madame X by John Singer Sargent

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Season 4, Ep.1: Madame X by John Singer Sargent

Season 4, Ep.1: Madame X by John Singer Sargent

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Christmas Special: Painting of the Year

Christmas Special: Painting of the Year

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.

Season 3, Ep.20, Gustav Klimt - Hermine Gallia

Season 3, Ep.20, Gustav Klimt - Hermine Gallia

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.

Season 3, Ep.19: Ditchling War Memorial by Eric Gill

Season 3, Ep.19: Ditchling War Memorial by Eric Gill

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.

Season 3, Ep.18 Mohri Yuko - Moré Moré

Season 3, Ep.18 Mohri Yuko - Moré Moré

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.comSupport the show

Season 3, Ep 17: Georges de La Tour - Penitent Magdalen

Season 3, Ep 17: Georges de La Tour - Penitent Magdalen

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.

Season 3, Ep 16: Wilfredo Lam - La Silla (The Chair)

Season 3, Ep 16: Wilfredo Lam - La Silla (The Chair)

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Season 3, ep.15: Charles Webster Hawthorne - The Boat Steerer

Season 3, ep.15: Charles Webster Hawthorne - The Boat Steerer

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.

Season 3 Ep.14: John Singer Sargent - El Jaleo

Season 3 Ep.14: John Singer Sargent - El Jaleo

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

Season 3, Ep 13: Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Bent Knees

Season 3, Ep 13: Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Bent Knees

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.

Season 2, Ep. 12: Goya, The Duchess of Alba

Season 2, Ep. 12: Goya, The Duchess of Alba

This week, Phil and Laura discuss Goya's portrait of a formidable young noble woman, recently widowed. Is there more to this portrait than meets the eye?Support the show

Season 3, Ep.11: Albrecht Dürer, Great Piece of Turf

Season 3, Ep.11: Albrecht Dürer, Great Piece of Turf

This week Phil and Laura explore Albrecht Dürer's 'Great Piece of Turf' and what made this very pretty patch of lawn so ground-breaking in the 16th century...Support the show

Season 3, Ep.10: Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

Season 3, Ep.10: Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

In this very special episode Phil speaks to 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' author Tracy Chevalier from the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime Vermeer exhibition. Phil and Tracy stand before a masterpiece and discuss it's surprising history...Support the Show.

Season 3, Ep. 9: Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew

Season 3, Ep. 9: Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew

Join Phil and Laura this week as they discuss Caravaggio's 'The Calling of Saint Matthew', a masterpiece that brings this pivotal biblical moment into the world of the 16th century...Support the Show.

Season 3, Ep.8: Pieter de Hooch - Courtyard of a House in Delft

Season 3, Ep.8: Pieter de Hooch - Courtyard of a House in Delft

In this episode, Phil and Laura explore this masterpiece from the Dutch Golden Age, uncovering the magic contained within this very normal visions of everyday life...Support the Show.

Season 3, Ep. 7: Horace Pippin - Christmas Morning, Breakfast

Season 3, Ep. 7: Horace Pippin - Christmas Morning, Breakfast

In today's festive episode, Phil and Laura focus on Horace Pippin's 'Christmas Morning, Breakfast' and the fascinating story of one of America's foremost black artists...Support the Show.

Season 3, Ep.6: Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride

Season 3, Ep.6: Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride

For this episode, Phil and Laura discuss a mysterious masterpiece by Rembrandt...Support the show

Season 3, Ep. 5: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party

Season 3, Ep. 5: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party

This week Phil and Laura discuss one of their favourite paintings - Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party - and why its creator was such a controversial figure...Support the Show.

Season 3, Ep. 4: William Meyerowitz, Gloucester Humoresque

Season 3, Ep. 4: William Meyerowitz, Gloucester Humoresque

For this episode, Phil traveled to the wonderful Cape Ann Museum in New England while making 'Hopper: An American Love Story' and discussed William Meyerowitz's 'Gloucester Humoresque' with chief curator Martha Oakes.Support the Show.

Season 3, Ep. 3: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Season 3, Ep. 3: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

This week, we explore a painting that has become the archetypal image of the Romantic era and the Sublime…Support the Show.