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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hart TV CV: http://www.tonyhart.co.uk/tony_hart_tv_career.htm Tony Hart was a talented teacher and tv presenter who spread his interest in art to children well into the 90s, set up the rudiments of arts and crafts for kids television, and whose formula and style of TV work were followed in Blue Peter, ArtAttack, Bitsa, Corners, and Smart. For discussion: TV ART in the 1980s with ROLF and TONY...CLIP IS FROM TAKE HART ~ (I am looking for more tapes of Hart Beat and 'Rolf Harris' Cartoon Time'/'Rolf's Cartoon Club' from the 1980s) ALTHOUGH 10 MINUTES, WATCH THIS WITHOUT FORWARDING THE CLIP, I AM SORRY FOR THE AUDIO-VIDEO MISMATCH YOU GET IF YOU CHOOSE TO RUN FORWARD WITH THE CLIP. ~ This TV mainstay began with 'Vision On' (for deaf viewers) and went on to make art accessible to children of all talents and persuasions. As the anchoring presenter and art teacher Tony Hart had been inspiring schoolkids long before the 'Why Don't You' motto, to start looking outside to do freehand sketches and paintings, using real objects from life or using the imagination, or else stay inside on a rainy day to cut and stick collages. Since Vision On he's made art fun and accessible without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, ie. not dumbing down to kids, and simplifying the methodologies in arts and crafts. Like Aussie presenter Rolf Harris, he's a very able fine artist. There are more clips, esp. of HARTBEAT, youtube search POINTS, and you can see a full episode from 80sKidsTV (dated 19 Oct 1988). I put this here as I enjoyed watching another youtube clip (NOT the cheap piss-takes) where he has used a paint-roller to draw on a huge area of concrete outside a school (a trademark). When asked he comments about marking out in advance what you'll draw. He says he NEVER does it, because you'll be looking at where the marks instead of expressing yourself. People might agree it's a mistake, as it stilts a lot of the creativity so important to develop early on. Edgy, on-the-spot creativity mattered: the quick, the spontaneous, the lively. This was typical of his programmes, and like Harris (and other 'old-skoolers') he probably knows a vast amount about the classics hanging in major galleries. Millions relied on Tony Hart as the genuine voice of kids' art. This sort of cred counts for something, and is sorely lacking in kids art TV today. With Hart, quick 'craftsy' methods like tracing, playing with glue and shiny shapes feature widely through TAKE HART and HARTBEAT which I watched. So there was a place and time for every methodology. Despite sounding much like boring backseat educationalists, I'd say there was both an 'exchange' and a 'clear margin' between the craftsy and the refined sides to art. Really, I can't see teachers like this educating kids from the get-go to throw out the well-studied manual skills trained by the great masters. Or to endorse sub'ing it for wholesale shortcuts (which some painters are totally dependent on to win their crust). You can't masquerade tool assisted drawings, ruler-measured from photographs as a replacement for skilful, freehand live study (as with true observational portraiture e.g. colour, tone, form..) (Consider this, lighting, angle, composition etc. for a photo is homage to the original photographer's skill: plus rapport, timing..) Similarly near-total reliance on a light-box, even painting by numbers, and other reverse-engineered skill-cutting DIY 'techniques' (all designed to make you feel like an accomplished master). In my opinion, I feel these are basic details many 'classic'/'fine' artists totally ignore. On a lighter note, Tony Hart has said he'd beat Rolf Harris in a fight because Rolf wouldn't stop his ...verbal flow (might take him seriously, as he was a Gurka officer before TV!). From the start, the multi-faceted entertainer Rolf catered a more exciting, zap-zang animation-based tastes. He delved into new cartooning methods, along with his wobble-board and zany presentation-style. He was really 'down with the kids' (!) from the 1960s to the 2000s youtube search Making of Real Ghostbusters (1989): http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zXq7FcAbLss ) Like others, I didn't realize Rolf was a painter of real professional standard until his later 'Rolf on Art' shows. There are some good Rolf's Cartoon Time (BBC) clips on youtube now, please search and enjoy!!

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