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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 ....
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 ac ....
And the fear of that, and this terrible little man adolf hitler was there somewhere waiting to attack you. and, suddenly, that stopped, which was extraordinary. i want to get you to the 1960s. yeah. you canjump! a period when you really made your name as an artist. and it seems you were seduced, in a way, by the bright lights that came with the new age of television, of pop music, of showbiz. what was it about this period the 1960s that really fired you up as an artist? i think, because i was a working class youth, particularly when i was at gravesend, the other half of my life when i wasn t at art school would be going to professional wrestling with my mother and my aunt, going to speedway i supported west ham speedway football i went to charlton athletic ground at the end of the 40s. ....
And so i think they had the talent and would have become artists. what inspired you as a young artist, it seems, was the pop culture that was emerging in the late 50s and the 1960s all around you. i m thinking particularly of pop music, but also of television, of fashion. this seemed to turn you on. it was an incredible moment, because from the age of seven to the age of 13, one had lived with this kind of. ..idea that you could be invaded at any moment or bombed at any moment, and the fear of that, and this terrible little man adolf hitler was there somewhere waiting to attack you. and, suddenly, that stopped, which was extraordinary. i want to get you to the 1960s. yeah. you canjump! a period when you really made your name as an artist. ....
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