Maggi Hambling's Habit of Subverting Expectations | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 43
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2017
- British artist Maggi Hambling is best known for her intimate portraits, paintings of the sea and controversial public sculptures. For being something of a non-conformist, she refuses to be pigeonholed. After half a century of challenging the art world, Maggi Hambling has a new exhibition at the British Museum. Entitled "Touch," the exhibition features 40 works, many of which have never been seen in public before. Primarily on paper and ranging from early pieces right through to some of her most recent works, the show reveals how drawing is at the heart of her artistic practice.
I met Maggie while working as an art technician in London a couple of years ago. I remember for the two weeks I was hanging her work she would constantly correct me and tell me I was doing it all wrong, or that I was taking too long... I knew I was doing everything right so I just genuinely thought that she didn't like me as a human being.
Then on the final day of the hang she approached me and snuck a £50 in my pocket and said she was really impressed with the work I'd done.
Although I was a little jarred by her at first, I really warmed to her towards the end, and I began to see through the iron lady 'act' that she puts on around people in public (and during the interviews in this video). Don't be fooled, although she comes across as standoffish at first she has a heart of gold!
I was also involved in delivering her work back to her house/studio in south London. She was so nice to us both, and gave us a personal tour of her house, including showing us a copy of the preface to dorian grey signed by Oscar Wilde and given to her by none other than Stephen Fry, which was hung in her kitchen (only Maggie would hang such a thing in her kitchen)
Great artist and lovely human being.
Thank you for sharing this.
Was she pissed?
Armors are for self protection.
I just love her. She's not the only one who hangs important things in what some may consider unusual places. My friend hangs their coat of arms in the laundry. I think the kitchen is a super place to keep the preface though; it becomes part of the fabric of her life and not just a relic of it.
@Hillyard. She's a fucking drunken, old, smelly, mediocre pest.
I love the qoate “Everything has to be an experiment or it is dead” - lovely video thank you for sharing
that is exactly what i took away from it haha! Found it to be the common thread amongst incredible artists and craftsmen.
Fascinating from start to finish. Thank you!
Maggie's words: "You're doing something positive while inside there's a great hurting..." YES ❤
happy to see an exhibition by this fabulous artist
Beautiful video ; strong artist- thank you; truly inspirational and fabulous
I love her work!
I adore Maggi and absolutely agree with her attitude of keeping alive and refusing to repeat herself but continue to be curious and working so intensewith being totally present and open to experience
Loved this. Thank you x
I love her method and her works.
I really enjoyed this!
LOVE THIS ARTIST AND HER WORKS!
Amazing artist, love her! Thanks for the great, inspirational video! :)
I expected crap, and i got one of the best artists i've ever seen. I would so love to talk to this beautiful person for an entire day, even if her art were never to be shown, she'd be incredibly interesting. Ofcourse i'm not alone in wanting to talk to her, and the idea of so many people talking to her likely horrifies her and i appreciate that. Still would really want to though
She is a brilliant Artist ❤️🔥 just love it 🔥🔥🔥
Some of her work had me in tears.
Absolutely marvellous
Great work, Maggi Hambling makes me laugh in appreciation. Such freedom of expression. I see in this "iron lady" who knows so well how she wants to arrange her world and thinking for herself, a witch of a kind that loves to throw people off guard in almost a shock-therapeutic manner to put an end to complacency. Especially in Britain, I believe it's just what the doctor orders. After living almost 5 years on that island, I completely understand why it needs its portion of highly eccentric and maverick residents. Not that it helps much, though, hahaha. Most of British population is a hard stoney nut to crack when it's about inner change due to a collective hypnosis, always correcting those who are at risk of waking up in real time.
i fell in love after that first sentence
Her drawings are exceptional.
Ala Panfiliuk Artmajer
A terrific maker of art.
The portrait of her dad made me cry in 2''
wonderful creative madness love herxxx
by far my favorite artist!
Powerful, stunning and raw emotion experiencing her art! Amazing!
For once I would like to hear the artist speak instead of listening to comments by other people. Frankly I couldn't care less what THEY think. Thank goodness for the fast forward button.
Right?!? The commercial aspect of this piece is infuriating!
thank you, Maggie is my new discovery, I am in love
I love it!
Thank you thank you thank you!!! I was unaquainted with Maggie Hambling. I have never fallen so hard so fast. One second and I am a devotee. P. S.: Can I put "not an ist' on a t shirt? Just for me of course!!!
Same. Isn't she fascinating?
A great real artiste!!
Wonderfull art - all of it - so surprisingly intense and totally alive filled with multidimensionalities of felt meaning and beauty totally transcendens dualisme of figurative-abstract,, realism-imagined, I wish It could be shown in Denmark
She is amazing.
Moving. Smart. Love her.
Maggi Hambling you’re amazing!
she is adorable!! reminds me of Jhoan Roa the venezuelan artist
What a character!! Would love to have a pint with this lady!!
she drinks whiskey but i bet she would have a pint of that with you ... she keeps it in the glove compartment of her car ... ha ha
Would love to have a pint with Maggi!
agreed!!
@@jamesjoelholmes4541 She stinks of booze and stale urine.
she is adorable!! reminds me of my Grandmother!!! :)
many thanks..
Really enjoyed this portrait of one of my favorite artists. Wish you didn't put the commercial at the front of it Bloomberg.
Love it
Great Artist very original, many artists copied her style.
The Museum has been collecting her Art for 30 years?! WoW!
BOMB!!!!!!! OF AN ARTIST!!!!!!!!!!!
Que artista excepcional!
Shes always evolving.
I friggin love her.
Nins....ME TOO ! I 'get' her.
Inspirational
Yeah deep thinking passionate wild and Oscar I saw him recently in London blow me away
Hats off, Lady ...
Fantastic intense drawing techniques ,emotional connections portraying wide human psychological states
Fantastic looking Ink Blots. like getting excited going to the loo!
why if it isn't my old friend from the shire, bilbo baggins.
I'd love to have her as my grandma
I love her idiosyncratic personality. It matches her work. Although different artists typically try to stand out rather pretentiously, she has an original disposition played out by her many interesting years lived. 😑
I love nothing about her...! 😡
@@AnthonyParsons-yg7xp what makes you say that?
She’s magnificent
love maggie!
Maggi Hambling is our greatest living painter...
awesome
wow. Hadnt heard of her before this
unconscious beauty x
The beauty of the unconscious surfacing, I guess that's what you mean?
You rock Maggi
She reminds me of Bilbo Baggins.
Bilbo Baggins out here like a renaissance artist.
I wish I could have lunch with Maggi Hambling. She may be the greatest artist of our age.
Be careful not to throw out your back with all that reaching
Her larger 'epic' painting remind me of some of Anselm Kiefer's 'epic' work, just not as gigantic in scale.
I immediately like her.
super art
Can we have a show with Maggie and Miriam Margoyles blowing up old power stations please? That would be amazing.
Ha ha ha!
agreed!!
Haha I love her x
🧡
Some pieces remind me of Egon Schiele
Yes She is a 'terrible beauty' .But a Beauty none the less.
Reminds me of Da Vinci: the line work - Cedric, February 8, 1982
CASHCAT Music yes reminds me of da Vinci. Inspirational
CASHCAT Music I love Cedric
I googled this linework but couldn't find it... can u send it to me
the subtitles are fucking hilarious.
bloody critics, can't stand them.
I can't stand them either, most of them I feel have no understanding of art they are just pretending!!
I like Maggie humbling and I too know and I too know what it’s like to be Ill I have a imaginary friend I share my art with.xxxxxcathy
What about Banksy foo?
compmaturism is a magic of painting
I like her...real.. Ist.
Maggi is straighter than I
thought not in a sexual manner.
But more traditional in style
Very interesting Artist indeed tho!
every documentary i see her in she is always smoking a cig lol
Looks just like Bilbo Baggins !
Hey buddy you must be a fun person in general, dont get so butthurt about such little things, focus on real issues
The ice melting must look feeble compared to the last ice age.
Not just a scarf but a ...
"I'm not an ist" but you're an artist.
Will DeShazo welL done! That's truly brilLiant of u.... As too i could... :P
Is this art? It looks like wallpaper.
Il nulla!
A cantakerous and difficult person comes through - but also obviously a great artist.
I thought it was don imus!
"I'm not an ist."
I thought this guy worked with giant glass pieces that other people make?
if she doesnt like ist and isnt ist does it mean that she isnt art-ist?
bullS&%$ism, I"ll pay a million
dark morbid depressing...... but in SA we have a lovely saying....dit is kak hoor!!!!!
Look at Magritte. Was a great artist but would many times repeat himself constantly to boredom, at around 50 paintings of the same idea and style.
just makes stuff 'that sells'..
it's whatever she says it is but..art like this isn't relevant.
it's more relevant than you. :)
Actually it can be relevant. Not because of the topic of her paintings, but because of the meaning behind her style
Eckhart V I don’t understand. We’re not talking fashion. She paints life. Isn’t that ‘relevant’?
Her art is extremely relevant,relevancy isn't a subjective measure,your statement is literally objectively wrong.
drawrring? what's the matter with these people?
Except the climate isn't warming because of humans at all. But other than that, great artist.
Maggi Hambling is our greatest living painter...