Peter Doig: famous artists 'are quickly forgotten'

The acclaimed Scottish painter Peter Doig's new exhibition opens this week, but he tells Katie Razzall that the high value of his work "doesn't give me confidence".

[@rassclatirons]

This man was very good to me when I was in Trinidad doing my art exhibition. Very nice person.

[@lucutuz]

Peter Doig paintings are beautiful ,,in my opinion he deserved that recognition more than a lot o f UK artists. Visual intelligence .

[@watchrepairing]

Besides being a great artist, he seems like a nice, humble guy. Being humble is a trait I see going away.

[@iwakuraSanta]

so why the fuck does he not use his scottish voice

[@ABC_DEF]

Why should he? He left Scotland when he was three, and has never lived there since.

[@iwakuraSanta]

***** are yuo sure

[@ABC_DEF]

That's what wikipedia says, and I have read the same thing in other places. He was born in 1959 and left Scotland for good in 1962. His childhood was spent in Canada, he went to art school in London, and he lives in Trinidad.

[@steakkidneypie767]

diyconstruction why would it go away now? After 20+ years of success?

[@manuel_cojocaru]

"It s all marketing." - speaking the truth right there

[@lesliesnyder5313]

Manuel Cojocaru agree

[@lesliesnyder5313]

Manuel Cojocaru also a story

[@roy_for_real2674]

To get famous and rich possiblh, not to have art

[@rodolpheleon5788]

i like this guy, no bullshit posturing

[@Sk8terSa5mH20]

“What I find really boring is when artist just copy photographs” He immediately became my favorite after that

[@mikebolwell4176]

I went to school in Toronto with Peter and I have fond memories of him and of those times. I also went to one of his NYC openings in the late 80's with the artist Anthony Feyer and never would have thought he would become so successful. He grew up in Canada which is why he has no Scots accent and I hear more of an English lilt to his voice.

[@markwardel6751]

saw his first ever show in London and also his latest one ...a great painter! Love Peter Doig.

[@joannegibson1271]

Heroic work... and even more so when I hear him speak. Thank you for the inspiration.

[@brendanyoung282]

Certainly one of my favourite artists. So talented. His art makes sense and is so magical . A big influence on me.

[@xdon_suranox6455]

thank god, after spending the past 2 hours looking through artist interviews this is a breath of fresh air and true talented art after all the bloated self interest and self importance.

[@debauraslumpy]

I like his work alot, it is great in real life

[@WestHamChiseller]

"famous artist are quickly forgotten" ... where does he say this?

[@christopherfarrell-artist3557]

He doesn't.....it's just mild click bait.

[@sharonhamilton2222]

I LOVE your work! It communicates. it evokes emotion. It IS ART.

[@vaderetro264]

Sharon Voden Typical female comment. Emotion!

[@steakkidneypie767]

@@vaderetro264 typical male comment, acting like emotion isn't important

[@jonathanransier3544]

His art does show true emotion, I describe his artwork as hauntingly beautiful, it's amazing visuals but also something lonely and dark. I'm a huge fan

[@papersack4290]

Though I do not like his art, I like him.

[@haret0n]

these paintings are beautiful

[@williamwoody7607]

To understand how annoying the auction price was,read the essay by Barbara Rose on the Scull auction in the early ‘60 s.

[@photinichristoforou4757]

Nice work and nice personality!

[@patriciacorbin5913]

You were very good to us in Trinidad give our regards to your family

[@mattludlam2194]

I love this mans work, studied it a lot for my a level art exam, and it still influences me, in my drawing and painting

[@sebastianmelmoth685]

beautiful

[@liebingf]

love his work

[@michealcurrie8272]

Coming home to roost. Very fresh.

[@awave1]

finally found a great contemporary artist.

[@simple22travel11]

great art only gets better with time, the rest just fades into the wilderness.

[@waydeowen5116]

Great painter.

[@nikogrujic6807]

Anybody can be a famous artist EVEN if you can't paint to save your life!!!!!! It's all about WHO you know and who you blow . Greetings from LAS Vegas

[@so1667]

You blew alot of people niko huh

[@RapidBlindfolds]

I'm an artist dating a consultant and occasional art investor. I spend all my time in my studio and barely network and she told me 'you can have all the talent in the world but if you have no connections you go nowhere. whereas if you have shitloads of connections but no talent you will still get somewhere'

[@Capricosm]

Everyone is quickly forgotten

[@dunsbroccoli2588]

Top Doig

[@costan90]

the guy group up in Canada, his most famous paintings are of Canadian scenes, and Canada isn't mentioned once in this piece?

[@OlvisTokyo]

poor you.

[@donaldhenderson9274]

nice artist

[@vincentvanvolkmer8746]

We talked a lot when he was a student

[@ritamonaco8062]

Famous artists are not forgotten. Popular artists are.

[@_life_is_a_mitch_]

Anyone know the song in the beginning

[@devinmichaelroberts9954]

How can an actual news channel create a fake quotation and put it in a title. So unethical!

[@joselaveriano6284]

Great painter...

[@rogeralsop3479]

I'd vaguely heard of him.

[@matthewstollar2678]

famous artists have also been remembered for centuries. any culture endorsed by channel 4 has a strong likelihood of being forgotten fortunately. that was nothing to do with peter doig incidently.

[@Afaloz]

Artist just want to eat 😢❤

[@TJAcoustic]

marketing and money laundry...great work though

[@dorfmanjones]

Personally I think the work is contrived and lacks formal tension, apart from the narrative speculations people have. However he sounds like someone whose head is screwed on right. He understands that these absurd rices and hoopla are there one day, and then they're not. There's no rhyme or reason to it. It's a cultural moment.

[@cergarcia4348]

pobre Peter tiene que hablar de plata y fama con Katie...

[@mariasilvers7721]

Except for Van Gogh, Da Vinci, and all of the other famous artists.

[@dr.gonzogoesberserk4187]

The difference is that they've been dead for a long time and we've re-evaluated their art and seen it as being worth studying instead of just as a passing fad. Very seldom have artists been famous during their lifetimes and kept their legacies in death.

[@TheArtofEngineering]

I smell bacon??

[@CryptoChanakya]

I like some of his magical touches, and then other paintings of his just fall flat. Almost everything shown here was not impressive and certainly not his best work.

[@rtk3543]

Peter who?

[@diegocorrea5143]

I don't get his work at all... I was today at the Coutlaud gallery and found it ugly and repetitive... nothing original and what the texts kept repeating was his experience in Trinidad, Canada and London as if that would explain and validate his work. Would be really good to hear from honest experts why is his work important?

[@c90sf]

whats with the dum title?

[@Human791]

no art should be worth that much money , rich people dont know where to spend there money so they buy art, too much money very little sense

[@Crono992]

+Human791 Works of art are the ultimate luxury goods and nothing, save an absolute collapse of civilization, will change that

[@wackity.7879]

why not? If people want to spend millions on consumer goods such as cars, clothes and brands, then why not spend millions on art?

[@molly9929]

Some artworks need same amount of time as bulding a school (im talking about big ass paintings) by a well known company (a week). And it needs huge amount of creativity, inteligence (ofc. Im talking about good art, there's no real art, only good and bad art, remember that), sense of style, and many, many. So you're doing two jobs. You're architect, and a worker. You should look at collection like at work of scientist. They get payed a lot of money too. If their work is good. You know why they get payed so much money, and im talking specialy about artists? Cuz it can be well know later, and worth, much, but much, more money. Like patents of scientist. That's why artworks worth so much money. Clear and simple logic. And btw. Maybe you ain't see it, bu art is creating culture, everything that is around you. So. Give some respect, to creatorss that... making peoples lives realy.. and evolving their lives.

[@shaynetrott6002]

And what should you spend you're money on? If we are talking in a consumer sense(not charitable) , art, cars, property... How is any consumer good more important than the other.

[@steakkidneypie767]

Uncultured swine

[@eugenegorman9697]

i thought from the thimbnail he was chucky from sons of anarchy

[@yoheff988]

Art, is it a bad joke? People "The emperor have no cloths!! LOL. A lot of people like to sing in the shower, but very few are singers

[@blackeesh463]

The irony in your comment is priceless

[@kingafendikingafendi8897]

Now you are million of dollars artist , do not stop sell your art again for millions again and be rich

[@heathercush5096]

His art is boring as well, and we all know that is all marketing, but wealthy ,,art lovers,, who understand what means well know and what doesn't buy it anyway. and that's the point.

[@cimerioporinternet5989]

en mi opinion,a sus cuadros les falta fuerza expresiva,no llega al aprobado.

[@ignasbednarczyk1987]

'Contemporary masterpiece'-'theres no such thing'. Of course there is-many paintings are being made which are better than this to such a high level of competance they are done by 'masters'.

[@Zestit497]

I believe that Doig is referring more to the challenge of understanding what it means when we designate something a 'masterpiece', espcially with so little time elapsed after the production of the work. 'Contemporary' means now, and for a piece to be truly understood as a masterpiece requires a little historical distancing. Some pieces are ignored or even actively rejected in the artist's lifetime, only to be accepted as a 'masterpiece' many years later. If you subscribe to any idea that the hierarchy and elitism of the traditional art establishment has been sufficiently toppled (you may do, you may not, but many contemporary artists act upon that premise) you will also have problems with designating a 'contemporary' artwork a 'masterpiece'. The ideas of 'masters' producing 'masterpieces' certainly fills me with a certain feeling of trepidation, but then I suscribe to a more democratic approach to artistic production. Differnent folks, different strokes. Personally, I tend to find these ideas often correlate to crediting 'competance' as the sole requirement of 'masterpiece' or genius, something which I guess you are quite happy to do.

[@steakkidneypie767]

Stop talking nonsense, masterpieces become so when they stand the test of time. Contemporary work is just that, contemporary. Give work time to be remembered or forgotten.

[@iwakuraSanta]

He is being sued for 5 million ,I hope the guy wins and he still has the painting what a fool

[@iamg07]

It was absolutely absurd that a living artist had to prove that he didn’t paint something. Even the signature on the painting was spelt differently. I hope Doug got his costs back from the claimant.

[@gavinreid2741]

That case was absurd. Doig had to prove he was never in prison and did not paint a particular picture. Doig won and was awarded $2.5 million.

[@nataliemolena]

I just came here because my surname is Doig (real surname, I use Molena because I hate Doig) and I wanted to see how weird it is to hear my surname out of the context of my own family 😂 ewww hate it😔

[@jamesbogart]

None of the paintings are magical in the sense of Van Gogh or Gauguin or Monet or Pissarro . The work is simply illustration .The flamboyance is aimed to impress and amateur pundits (KZbinrs primarily) are impressed but the cognoscenti see the paintings for what they are and in Doig's own words " Marketing" .

[@LJD25]

Illustration...dull.

[@RapidBlindfolds]

meh

[@user-vt1ix6tn8f]

Nothing new about his paintings. I’ve seen very similar style from artists in California in the 80’s. It’s all marketing and promotion which we seen back in the 60’s with Andy Warhol’s pop art became all the rage.