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[tT is not surprising, I feel, that 2YA’s Sunday afternoon programme A Splash of Colour-Scenes from the Lives of Great Artists should present a highlycoloured account of the lives of the artists in question. The introduction to the series, wherein is announced the aim of exploring "that fascinating human problem, the man who wields the brush," states categorically that "more colourful than the pictures are the artists who painted them." This, in the case of the programme about Rubens, I categorically deny. His life-story, even when made up for the mike, has not the glowing splendour of his canvases, though none would deny it a certain sombre richness. Now Gaugin and Hogarth were much better material for this Roman holiday, the former’s life story having the advantage of some previous touching-up by Somerset Maugham and George Sande and the latter’s being full of scenes necessitating speeches such as "Unhand my daughter, sir." Compared with these two, Rubens, with two successful marriages and an uneventfully brilliant career behind him, is at a disadvantage. Let us hope he is duly grateful.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 23
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180Technicolour New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 23
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