Art in Isolation: Episode Seven 'Divine Power'
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- This is the last 'live' episode follow up in our 'Art in Isolation' series, in which Philip takes you around his home and shares some of his favourite works with you in each Instagram live stream. Broadcast daily at 4pm the series has gained a great deal of traction with our clients, followers and fans as well as introducing new visitors to 500 years of British Art. The series will continue next week as pre-recorded episodes.
In this episode Philip shares with you a work by Roger Wagner, Song of the Servant No. 4 which depicts a lamentation of Christ in the foreground of a distinctly modern landscape with the (former) Didcot Power Station in the background.
This is the final live episode in the series. We are excited to share with you the second series with you next week. More details will follow this week's broadcasts and all information will be available in our newsletter.
Thank you for watching and for all your comments on social media.
It's like Christmas morning when a new episode comes out. Thank you Philip!
😂👍 you have perfectly articulated my feelings about Art in Isolation
What a lovely sentiment, thank you.
Thank you, Mr Mould, for brightening up our gloomy days!
Wow!! I am watching this series in 2022, in Israel. Am blown away by these 2 paintings!! Beautifully simple and complex, so full of meaning!! Thank you!!!
From isolation in East Hampton, NY, we are absolutely loving these videos from you, Philip and from your son Oliver. We are not only learning so much about art, but we are equally learning about you. Your opening up of yourself and house and barn for us means so much. These times of isolation are allowing us to connect in both deep and wonderful ways, you are personifying this in an exemplary way. Thank you!
Thank you so much for joining us.
Greetings again from Shelburne, Vermont. Thank you Phillip & Oliver - it is such a treat and comfort to look forward to these ~7 minutes each day. Your success as an Art Dealer is no doubt a result of your ability to tell stories with such profound acuity and passion, to evoke visceral reactions - leaving potential customers no course but to buy! I see so many parallels in my field of high-tech cloud software (if you can believe it) where we use similar evocative storytelling with our customers. I don’t want to draw any parallel between my boring technology and your amazing collection - but you demonstrate the finest example how any sales & marketing professional should engage their audience/market. I can’t wait until Monday!!!
Another thing that's so engaging about these videos (and of course all your work on the BBC) is your PASSION for the art, the artists, and especially solving the mysteries. Great stuff.
Christopher Rubeo Passion creates energy which is very contagious. Riveting stuff!
Gosh ,I am so enjoying your Art in Isolation, as I watch over patients sleep in hospital at this time . Thank you xx
I've just joined the party (a little late) am I'm enjoying your films very much. It's particularly fun to see your collaboration with Oliver develop as is his confidence with the camera. I'm very grateful for your films, thank you both xx And as for the Star of the Show Cedric, you are beautiful
Hi, there 👋🏻. I am a physician who works in the emergency room of a local hospital in Recife, Brazil. We’re not yet - as it seems - at the peak of the cases of covid 19 around here, the numbers are still rising each day, fellow co-workers here and there also becoming sick, in a variety of degrees of seriousness (1/5 of all confirmed cases in my state are health care workers). There is a lot of fear and sadness, as also much more joy with the relief we can provide sometimes - while we are also taking care of ourselves. Many of us, everywhere, try also to find positive bits out of the struggle that has turned our daily routines. So, I’m here to thank you for the generous sharing of your knowledge and wit, for allowing us to enter the intimacy of your house, at a time we’re not allowed to be at the houses of our relatives and friends (though I’m afraid theirs wouldn’t be so well adorned ☺️). It has been a pleasure and a relief of our daily duties. 🙏🏻
Flávio Amaral We very much admire your courage and dedication at such a difficult time in our history. Art has always been a wonderful diversion for me in difficult times so I’m pleased to hear this helps you too as I’m sure it does many others too.
LeBot The easiest way to make a choice about how and what to do is when there’s no choice at all: we all have to do the right thing. Art is not a choice as well. Turning to the arts and finding there some meaning and relief is not a choice as well. It's like keeping on breathing and finding out the air is still fresh and pure. Thank you for your nice words.
Art in Isolation does bring oxygen into the room! Best wishes Sr. Amaral to you and your staff.
LJ SH 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love the paintings you showed in previous episodes but these roger Wagner paintings are in a league of their own. I adore those paintings, they are absolutely magnificent.
Have a nice weekend in the Cotswold... the last few moments in the barn made us really curious about the large paintings in the former pigsty, now Art expert office !
Art-in-Isolation ... I'll look back to these great videos as the best moments in the Covid-19 period... Thanks again Philip & Oliver for doing these !
"I'll look back to these great videos as the best moments in the Covid-19 period." *Right?*
These daily videos make me happy to wake-up in the morning, during this crisis.
Thank you for these kind words, we are so glad that you are enjoying the series.
I have just discovered these wonderful mini lectures on Art . Thank you so much Mr Mould for entertaining and educating and making me think.
The striped uniforms of two of the people around Christ are also symbols of Auschwitz which is the coming together of the Judaism and Christianity around death and tragedy. Very moving painting. Thank you from Australia where we are still in some form of isolation. Take care of those you love, if the last two years have taught us anything, it's what is important.
Similar to a book of hours in some ways, the ultramarine and glorious colour, combined with subject matter and detailed landscape invite contemplation and meditation. Fabulous. Thank you for your generous sharing of your time, your thoughts, and your feelings about art and what it can do for us all.
Thanks again for these. We're enjoying them here in New York. One request... more Cedric!
Brilliant! Thank you and your son so much!
I love art that captures an emotion. Well done sir. Well done.
What a staggeringly great painting. Thank you so much for introducing me to this artist.
I enjoy you so much ,I start my day with your delightful voice ,knowledge and collection.Diana Lawrence Australia
Love these and the one takes are impressive.
Also love the Didcot painting. I used to drive past it each day and saw the towers come down. Drove past it yesterday and was amazed by how many more houses have been built.
In the fields in your painting are now houses.
Utter joy. Just discovered this series and am thrilled to be introduced to your private collection with such eloquence and infectious passion. These two paintings are corkers. They seem to me to be in the English tradition of Samuel Palmer and Stanley Spencer and are quite, quite delicious in their dreamy yet solid sense of hope. Thank you.
Daniel is right! These are a welcome present. Oliver has grown dramatically in his production! I love the struggle of this image. It’s like a surrealist Thomas Hart Benton.
Greetings from Finland. Thank you so much Philip, and the team Oliver & Cedric the dog, for bringing these interesting and enjoyable moments to our days :) Waiting for the next episode...
Recently recommended, so pleased, you are both consummate professionals, and Phillip it is so good to learn all these fascinating insights from you, thank you.
Another fab snippet, so welcome in current climate! If everyone "rose above religion" a la the artist in that painting, the world would be a different place. Agree with you re art needing to be honest/challenging, to provoke with its poetry. Thank you again!
Thank you for your serie. For me the last painting is a very strong way of talking about death that WE bring into earth and in humanity with pollution. Even if very well painted, the surface of the earth is dead, nothing grows... It is a call to action.
Both of these paintings are so striking that they draw you in to explore every area and discover all the various nuances included within them. Thank you for sharing them with us. 😊
Love the stories behind the
Art Work. Thank You. 👏🙏🏻😇🌈🦋🇬🇧🍀
i was stunned by this symbolism, i was brought up catholic and lived on the edge of a jewish area, cheetham hill in manchester. on the first wednesday of the month there was an early mass before school started and if we had communion and had fasted 24 hours we were allowed to eat breakfast in class. there was always someone who had their fried bacon on a bagle.
Holy Cow!, that was a meaty episode. Expanded my mind in a big way,
Thank you for this
MORE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thankyou, thankyou.......
So groovy. Thanks guys. Those paintings are refreshing. While a westerner, never been a christian, never cared for it, but having it depicted in a new way is intriguing, esp. coupled with jewish symbols. There should be far more of that given, of course, they came from the same neighborhood, same history, all related. Looking forward to more! Have a great weekend.
Wonderful painting ....and beautiful description of the painting and its theme
Once again, thank you. Hoping we will see more of your office. Watching from Texas (in isolation.)
Breath taking...simply breath taking. Loaded with such powerful symbolism, and relevance to social and ecological stresses of our modern world. You are absolutly correct Mr. Mould in your assesment of this painting and the importance of art which makes one think, (couldn't stomach it today, but when I was a young man I had Picasso's Gurnica hanging in my bedroom, ha ha). The ruined landscape reminds one of the destruction of our environment. The heartbreaking pieta in the foreground and the concentration camp clothing of the Virgin Mary holding her dead Son, and others similarily clothed, challenge us and remind us of the underlying antisemitism throughout Christian history. A vey uncomfortable and yet beautiful painting. I am perhaps reading too much into it...however, I am excited to learn about a new artist. Thank you!
I believe good art always has emotions in it, some mild and others that seem to reach out and grab you. Thanks for all your work that goes into these videos!
Thank you Mr. Mould.
Thank you! We are sending our youngest daughter off next month to begin her career as an emergency room physician - an incredibly conflicting experience. I am so grateful to you both for sharing your beautiful home and art collection. This episode has especially resonated.
Thank you for doing these videos and giving us a glimpse of your lovely home. As a modest collector of portrait miniatures I really appreciate all the work that you have been doing.
Thank you so much for your kind words, we are thrilled that you are joining us.
For me as a little girl, the cooling towers at Didcot were a landmark, meaning that I wasn't far from my grandparent's house. I called them 'the cotton reels'.
Thank you so much for your wonderful videos...I am learning so much about art and enjoying every minute of it!
Please don't stop.
Art always stirs the emotions one way or another and is different for us all individually. Thank you for showing your collection to us.
Thank you! I was going to watch one episode to the next but I jumped to Episode 8 not knowing the arts you are featuring are befitting of the Holy Week. It is a splendid surprise. Happy Easter!
What very powerful paintings, especially the first one shown. When two worlds collide beauty can be the result, as the artist has shown here. It’s sublime.
LOVING this series! :-)
A really powerful painting and very surrealistic with strong colours.
When it was painted 1993 coal-fired power plants still were a symbol of modern times and there was no problem with power plants as a positive symbol for divine power and the menorah.
Ironically with all the problems of global warming, the symbolism of power plants has changed completly. No more 'divine' power but more a symbol for the other side... If you would paint such scene now and say: 'The power plant is a symbol for Judaism.', you'll have to deal with accusations, that you want to make negative propaganda against Jews, like in some old paintings of the same genre around the Passion of Christ.
So it's a very good example that you always have to read symbols in context (of time) and how fast times could change.
Thank you for making my days of isolation in the Estonian countryside so much more bearable! I delight in the tour of your favorite works and the glimpses of life beyond my own borders. All the best to you and yours...
Those paintings are great. The compositions and use of color are well done. And the subject matter invokes a deep push and pull. They make my brain tingle.
I only found you yesterday evening. "Art in Isolation" is the perfect name as we are all in isolation. As a special treat to myself, I plan to binge on your channel today! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your home is so amazingly lovely!
A very nice series indeed. A simple tip to help in the future...use a lavaler mic and a wind muff. Better sound.
Thank you so much 💐
Thanks for making the case for tough images - I have always been drawn to beauty and images I find uplifting. I now realize tough images can also be uplifting. Thanks for being a continuing source of joy ! You are making isolation a home a bit easier here in snowy Calgary, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
We really do benefit from the dark in painting - just like we get something from a novel, a poem - even a garden with a dark corner.
Why surround ourselves with only positive images - maybe not just because of the fears - but because we want to relax our critical minds, to take a break.
But if in taking a break and relaxing, our minds run over meanings that must be teased apart and patched and pondered - we expand.
Warmest hug
Jennie
Thank you in sharing your art, your expertise, and your home. Very nice to have a bit of normalcy in these upside down days.
Watching and delighting in your series from Cape Town, South Africa. Thank you for sharing your home, collection, enthusiasm and ideas. Loving and appreciating every minute. Love to you there and Cedric!
magnificent
so beautifully painted
makes it even more compelling thank you so much for introducing me to Roger Wagner’s paintings
It’s good to see different genres, two interesting paintings indeed. Avagoodweekend too, from sunny Queensland.
Thank you so much for this episode and all episodes! They are really a joy to watch and a great small escape from world realities. Continued strength to you!
Philip...does the house have a reported ghost? Looks like so much history in those walls. Loving these videos. Andy
Such fascinating insights into the pictures. This has been an enjoyable and educations series. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Greeting from Virginia USA. Having watched 'Fake or Fortune' and found your passion for art contagious, we were delighted to come across these gems on TH-cam! Duck End is charming and beautiful, inside and out. Many thanks to you and Oliver for this gift of calm beauty during this challenging time.
What a lovely house to be locked down in. I recently collected my son, the same age as Oliver, great to have him home ;)
Wow! Another lesson on art and passion, like you have such talent to communicate.
Thank you
thank you, I really enjoy the episodes. I love to see how you solve the mysteries in these beautiful pieces of art. West Chester, Pennsylvania. The USA.
Once we are all through this hiatus I strongly recommend that you continue these conversations about art and culture.
Much as I enjoy the 'blockbuster' production of "Fake or Fortune', there's something pleasing about the intimacy and unscripted scholarship of these clips.
They also chime with the our collective preference for nuggets and brevity.
Thank you for sharing your world and experience.
Isolation is a relative concept in this era.
Kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand - kia kaha (Be strong, be brave, be steadfast - in Te Reo Maori)
Rob Mather Mr Mould also
Hello Philip & Oliver, I thought your Didcot painting had echoes of The Farm by Miro (owned during his life by Ernest Hemingway). It even has Miro’s ladder motif. Do look and see if you agree? Thanks for the excellent programmes. Daniel
Thank you!!!!!!!! Such beautiful ideas and inspiration!
Art is so interesting. Philip says these paintings are in sunlight but I only see moonlight.
I initially started watching you on Antiques Road Show followed this with Fake or Fortune (which I loved) however this series is wonderful, they are interesting, informative and enjoyable. Keep it up I am loving them. So thank you.
Very moving and ethereal paintings. Thanks for a moment of studying darkness turned into beauty
Great episode!
What a fabulous painting.. I can see why you bought it.
Philip this episode was fantastic. Thank you for taking us through this symbolism. Would you Share some insight as to the framing of these two pieces? I love the frames and am curious hoe you came to select them, if they are a style or period that you can talk about! Cheers from a Canadian fan!
Loving this series - thank you. The work featured in this episode by Roger Wagner is extraordinary - it's been on my mind all day. Others may be interested to know that you can buy a limited edition print of a similar painting from Roger's website. I've just ordered!
My brother , Oliver McCauley has done this . Without recognition.
With the first painting you mentioned the smoke and holocaust, this to me is further connected by the two figures with Jesus, one cradling, one crying who are wearing clothing the same as holocaust victims.
I particularly loved the paintings of Roger Wagoner(?). They reminded me - not in detail but in lines and symbolism, a bit of the work of New Zealand artist, Colin McCahon.
It's Roger Wagner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wagner_(artist)
Philip, your enthusiasm for art is contagious:-)
For some reason the second painting reminds me of Poland during the Holocaust. The stacks of Auschwitz and in the foreground you have the Catholics dying to save who they can, represented by Jesus on the cross. Then, you have the man bending over hiding himself from the horror, those either too scared or complacent in the regime to do anything...
it's amazing how he creates a 3 d feeling. I think he is bringing Judaism and Christianity together as so many people do not accept that Jesus was always a Jew. I find it an extremely moving picture and I can see why you have it.
My nine year old daughter, who discovered "Fake or Fortune" at the age of eight and has since hungrily devoured every episode we could find, is now entranced by "Art in Isolation". I wonder whether you have any younger fans? A lovely series of films. Thank you.
Hi Philip, I am really enjoying this series! How did you begin your collection, and how would one go about starting one themselves?
Impressive works! the theme and the people in the striped uniforms surrounding the figure of Jesus put me in mind of the work of John Bellany who also explored themes surrounding the holocaust.
As an artiist, sharing this time with you, is a blessing without equal. Your presentations are magical.....reaffirming the exquisite, compelling, creative force, of our sacred inheritance. Art is, that we might be. You have opened my eyes to representative art, loaded with the commerce of intelectual narrative. Feels as if I can breath again! Warmest regards, D.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Desmond.
I’m late to the party, but I am loving this series. Thank you.
Religion can be so rigid....Wagner symbolism does remind me of the Italian renaissance with a modern twist. Come to think of it ....does remind me of an English-Canadian artist religious prints but her was more stylistic....Sybil Andrews. Thanks again on a fascinating subject matter.
This may not be a "lovely" comment. Despite the irrational beliefs in deities which you state underlies this painting, I just greatly enjoy the wonderful painting as itself. I am especially excited about the right hand side and the forms of the trees in front of the nuclear reactor cooling towers. Dali was right in making his explanations as enigmatic as possible so one could just concentrate on the
painting without complicating and obscuring it with words.
not a nuclear reactor
I believe you have a wonderful way of how important emotion at the hand of the artist is of Romario importance,
Of the artist is of primary importance. Thank
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In Vicorian times painters made pictures to inspire and provoke 'melancolia' as it was considered pleasurable to feel extreme emotions, they also wrote books and created rooms to this end.
Enjoyable again. Thank you.
Great art comes in many forms and the more the Merry o'er.
Yet another most enjoyable episode, can’t wait for Monday.
So glad that you are joining us.
Such insightful commentary. Thankyou.
They are a reflection of man kind and it’s abuse of the Earth at their hands. But then the hope that their is a better time and place. I really like the artists religious symbolism.
@PhilipMould&Co., Hello from the States!~
Curious, would you possibly do a segment on the art of framing art, as you know, is an art in itself.
ivorytower99 yes please. I often look at the frames as much as the art.
I worked for many years in a private fine art restoration studio, under an Italian Master restorer and fine furniture designer, repairing and gilding frames. Most days refurbishing frames, would be like someone in a restaurant flipping burgers for a living. It's an insanity! lol
Superb, thank you Philip.
Such an appropriate frame.
Dear Philip & Oliver, thanks for another lovely episode! An idea for the second series; we all know your great discoveries and although i would love to hear more details about those still, maybe its fun -and educational-as well to talk about some you missed out or maybe some which didnt turned out as you would have expected? I dare you ;-)
Good show!
A modern renaissance painting. Actually has the feel of Horace Pippin’s Holy Mountain III which was a disturbing rendition of the Hick’s Peaceable Kingdom. I saw it the first time (if I remember correctly) at the Phillips Collection and currently is displayed at the National Gallery of Art in DC. A stunning primitive with similar themes to your piece. It was dated the day the US dropped the 2nd nuclear bomb in Japan. Your smoke stacks look a bit like 3 mile Island before the meltdown.