Andrew Cranston
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
A small town I grew up in, in the library area.
They really just had the kind of sort of big European canon, you know, Titian and Goya and all this kind of thing.
I think they had a Francis Bacon book.
That was the only modern kind of book.
But Bruegel really spoke to me and there was something recognisable even about things about the town and activities in the town and
But also spatially, Bruegel, the town is in a kind of a glen, like a wee valley.
And the way, if you stood at various points in the town, it felt like the space you would get in a Bruegel, you know, that you'd be looking down on one bit and across on another.
And I liked his element of absurdity actually in the work, you know, that he was close to Bosch at times and early on.
And I think I've had a long relationship with Bruegel in a way, you know, that actually that's the thing that over time you just sort of keep returning to these paintings.
Yeah, it's an attempt to remember a particular golf hole that I used to play the 16th in Howick, and it has an interesting sort of way...
where the landscape sort of slopes away to the fairway below.
When I was looking at Abrogal, it was the conversion of St Paul, I thought, oh, that reminds me of the 16th.
And there's even a figure in the painting which I think is pretty much lifted from Hunters in the Snow.
To me, his paintings are just sort of perfection, really.
I mean, you know, his great painting, Fall Icarus, where the tiny pair of legs that can subject to the painting, you know, that this...