British producers of animation forced to go abroad due to 'lack' of homegrown talent with traditional figurative skills
First it was Polish plumbers, now it is Polish artists. In a damning indictment of Britain's art schools, two Oscar-winning British film-makers have recruited 60 Polish painters to work on their latest animation because they claim they could not find artists here with the right skills.
Loving Vincent tells the story of Vincent van Gogh through moving images of his masterpieces. Hugh Welchman and David Parfitt, its producers, hoped to hire British artists to recreate more than 1,000 of the painter's works, but say they were unable to find sufficient homegrown talent.
Welchman, who won an Oscar in 2008 for his animation of Peter and the Wolf, said British art schools, unlike Polish ones, did not train students to acquire figurative skills and pushed them instead towards conceptual art. He said that few British artists had been up to scratch,...
First it was Polish plumbers, now it is Polish artists. In a damning indictment of Britain's art schools, two Oscar-winning British film-makers have recruited 60 Polish painters to work on their latest animation because they claim they could not find artists here with the right skills.
Loving Vincent tells the story of Vincent van Gogh through moving images of his masterpieces. Hugh Welchman and David Parfitt, its producers, hoped to hire British artists to recreate more than 1,000 of the painter's works, but say they were unable to find sufficient homegrown talent.
Welchman, who won an Oscar in 2008 for his animation of Peter and the Wolf, said British art schools, unlike Polish ones, did not train students to acquire figurative skills and pushed them instead towards conceptual art. He said that few British artists had been up to scratch,...
- 3/18/2014
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
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