TONY HART TAKE HART 1976 clip from first series
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WATCH WITHOUT FAST FORWARDING, SORRY FOR AUDIO MISMATCH IF YOU RUN FORWARD. CLIP FROM TAKE HART en.wikipedia.org www.tonyhart.co.uk 1980s TV ART with ROLF and TONY. If Des Lynam the long-standing Grandstand anchor gets a new year’s honour for years of sports presenting then so should Tony Hart. Tony Hart is the talented TV presenter and teacher who spread his interest in art to children well into the 90s, set up the rudiments of arts and crafts for children’s television, and whose formula and style of TV work were followed in Blue Peter, Corners, ArtAttack, Bitsa, and Smart. This TV mainstay began with ‘Vision On’ (for deaf viewers) and went on to make art accessible to children of all talents and persuasions. As anchoring presenter and artist he had been inspiring school kids long before the ‘Why Don’t You’ motto, to look outside to do sketches and paintings, study objects from life or using your imagination, or else stay inside to stick collages. Since Vision On he made art fun and accessible without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, not dumbing down to kids, and simplifying methodologies in arts and crafts. Like Aussie Rolf Harris, he’s a very able fine artist. I put this here as I enjoyed watching another youtube clip (NOT the cheap piss-takes) where he used a paint-roller to draw on a huge area of concrete outside a school (a trademark). When asked, he comments about marking out in advance what you’ll draw. He says he NEVER does it, because you’ll be looking …
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A great man RIP TONY.
@Scourgeoftheinterweb You’re ill-fated art teacher sounds like he was from the mentalist school of arts, I mean, slashing on a dead man’s grave? okay & understandable if he had good reason (like a child-molester in priest’s clothing)..but tony hart’s?! I do hope that he’s been securely institutionalised.
My art teacher at school hated Tony Hart. He said he was shit and “wouldn’t know what art was if it shat in his face”. He also told us that he made a special trip to piss on his grave. He got fired before the end of the year though for biting Milly Jenkins.
this man was so brilliant at art he could of been a great architect.
Thanks for responding. No, the Tinpots were four characters, Egghead, Browned-Off, Sharpy and Redhead who lived in small paint pots on a shelf. They were definitely in episodes of Take Hart.
@TheTrousermouse were the tinots not from tony hart’s ‘the art box bunch’ which aired during the ’90s?
Does anyone have any later episodes of Take Hart? I’m looking for ones featuring The Tinpots, characters who came out of paint pots?
wow that music was totally funky!!
Yes, I agree, Uncle Tony was my inspiration for creating artworks, I think the choice of Che Guervarra was a bit controversial as a subject matter, however, the BBC was quite left-wing in those days.
Also good to have an older person interacting with children. Not like today when you have youth obsessed TV execs who are obessed with chasing the youngest presenters for TV. I think it helps bridge the gap between young and old
RIP, legend
he has a website, but it doesnt have any of his art on it.
couldn’t help but laugh at this lol
awesome vid
So relaxed and calm – and cool
So many good memories of my youth. I was probably 6yrs old when this was on TV. Only 3 TV Channels BBC, BBC2 and ITV not the 200+ you have now. No computers or internet then only hot summers playing for hours with friends in the park
or what its called?
i adore this music (and the program). any idea where i can get the music from?
wernt we lucky kids in the 70′s!. . .we had very little but yet so much at the same time.
Look at how much of this simply encourages you to LOOK at things in a different way. It’s not about “How to Draw” but it makes you aware of patterns and colors that are all around. Because it downplayed the skill of art and instead focused on just looking, it brought it all with in reach of kids… and everyone else. Thanks – I haven’t seen any of this since it was on in the 70′s!
Last time I saw this clip I was 12..the magic of youtube.
heard the music! proper funky shaft vibes.
very cool
He was cool, I used to watch this all the time when i was young.
Wow. I didn’t realise how much it went downhill as I was only born in ’73. This is a truly classy show. Mr, Bennett Fuck off!
Poor you my younger sister sent a painting and they never showed it either. Its so sad.
wtf