TONY HART TAKE HART 1976 clip from first series

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 …