primary defeat, saying she s thinking about running for president. the congresswoman is one of donald trump s fiercest critics, and lost to a candidate hand picked by mr trump. she says she ll make a decision in the coming months. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital. this city buzzes with creativity. now artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you r
so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back, because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family, in environments where there wasn t actually much to play with. it was sometimes quite lonely, and you had to use your imagination. do you think that was important in your development? it probably was, and i ve never really thought about that. it probably was, but at the time it wasn t part of my plan. i mean, i had no intention or thought about being an artist. and the period yo
many factories have been ordered to close, and shops are restricting their normal opening hours. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop. but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back. yeah. because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop. but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back. yeah. because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family in environments where there wasn t actually
with reviews, with criticism. you have found, i think, found it difficult over the years to handle some of the criticism. and i wonder whether you feel there s a snobbery in the art world and that pop art was never, or at least in its origins, was never taken seriously by some of those high minded critics? yeah, i think me particularly, because i think what some of the critics couldn t deal with was that i would do a record cover. and so in a way, it s my fault, and that.they felt i wasn t a pure enough painter, which is true, which is right. what is a pure enough painter? i mean, as you ve said, you had the training. i always use frank auerbach as an example, who s an absolute. he was in the year before me at the royal college and who i would say was a friend.