celebrity art historian,
Never in my professional career have I been so moved by one picture. It has opened my eyes to surrealism. I am smitten by the wonderous and challenging recent oil painting (or is it acrylic?) by Vincent Alexander Booth.
This singular work, now reproduced apparently on the front cover of FRA Fixtures Calendar and Handbook 2010 has challenged all other art schools – particularly soviet realism, my previous favourite.
WHY? it depicts a Graham Breeze lookalike (current FRA chair) ahead of Charles Marshall in a precipitous mountain race, which a librarian informs me is a fell race, practiced somewhere in the dark North. There is artistic licence and there is the truth.
Has anyone any idea what popular song athlete number 3 is singing?
paulm says:
Hey Brett, someone’s pinched your stash of whatever it was you were smoking when you sent round the AGM agenda.
12th January 2010 at 8:06 am
Andy says:
Is that the same Charles Marshall who was described elsewhere on the internet as looking like ‘a man who couldn’t stop a pig in a passage’?
12th January 2010 at 9:09 am
sportjohn says:
There is also a Martin Horbury look-a-like apparently conducting an imaginary orchestra in the background! Not sure what vest he’s wearing!
The entire picture could be entitled “The Path to Purgatory” as the ashen-faced souls hurtle down the rock-strewn slopes towards eternal damnation and possibly a soreen maltloaf at the end!
12th January 2010 at 9:34 am
Brett says:
@ paulm – I would just like to point out that I don’t write everything on this site.
This is pure genius! Just read it in your best Sewell voice
12th January 2010 at 10:16 am
lukas says:
Help with the accent if it’s needed:
http://www.briansewell.co.uk/brian-sewell-written-word/brian-sewell-soundboard.html
12th January 2010 at 12:01 pm
peter bramham says:
Well thank you lukas for the link to the website. Brilliant and so like paul morris’ measured and sensitive accent
12th January 2010 at 12:12 pm
Dave Hamer says:
Crikey. It’s just like listening to Mr. President for life Minikin!
12th January 2010 at 1:15 pm