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Reflections: Art, Life and Love

Reflections: Art, Life and Love

By: National Galleries of Scotland
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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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Episodes
  • Discovering The Two Roberts & Dalziel and Scullion

    Discovering The Two Roberts & Dalziel and Scullion
    Dec 11 2019

    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.

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    11 mins
  • Partnerships & Relationships

    Partnerships & Relationships
    Dec 4 2019

    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.

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    23 mins
  • Discovering Richard Dadd

    Discovering Richard Dadd
    Nov 27 2019

    We hear the full interview with Nick Tromans, author of Richard Dadd; The Artist and the Asylum.

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    20 mins
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