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primary defeat, saying shes thinking about running for president. the congresswoman is one of donald trumps fiercest critics, and lost to a candidate hand—picked by mr trump. she says shell make a decision in the coming months. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital. this city buzzes with creativity. now artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop...

so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. ive got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i havent worked today yet, but i looked at what im working on. let me take you right back, because im always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to crea...

many factories have been ordered to close, and shops are restricting their normal opening hours. now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what k...

welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you st...

Benjamin and his family, but also theres like a record cover that my dad modeled for back in the 50s that i found in a box and all these little notes from my dad i found, i framed them and put them on this wall. its nice for the kids to be able to see it and get a sense of their history. >> and your dad and your mom will be very real to them, right? even though -- >> yeah. >> -- they dont get to meet them. i mean, how important is that for you to have that shared experience? >> its very importan...

Taken seriously by some of those high—minded critics? yeah, i think me particularly, because i think what some of the critics couldnt deal with was that i would do a record cover. and so in a way, its my fault, and that...they felt i wasnt a pure enough painter, which is true, which is right. what is a pure enough painter? i mean, as youve said, you had the training... i always use frank auerbach as an example, whos an absolute... he was in the year before me at the royal college and who i wou...

But i cant believe youre telling me youre not a proper artist. im a different artist. yeah. and what they didnt like about me was that difference. those critics didnt. .. ..couldn�*t understand why i would be common and vulgar enough to do a record cover. and i guess that... that was their problem. there were critics like brian sewell... 0h, brian sewell was a separate case. he was a vicious, nasty man. i mean, i know hes dead, but he was vicious. and he picked on hockney, kitaj and myself to ...

You know, if there is an establishment and you work within it, its good to be a member of it. let me ask you about the critics, because every artist, i guess, has to deal with reviews, with criticism. you have, ithink, found it difficult over the years to handle some of the criticism. and i wonder whether you feel theres a snobbery in the art world, and that pop art was never, or at least in its origins, was never taken seriously by some of those high—minded critics. yeah, and i think me parti...

I mean, as youve said, you had the training. i always used frank auerbach as an example, whos an absolute... he was in the year before me at the royal college, and who i would say was a friend. and he goes to work every day, he looks like an artist, hes got a proper studio with a lot of paint on the floor. hes a proper artist. im not, and i dont claim to be. im not an artist in that sense. i mean, i do work every day. i cant believe youre telling me youre not a proper artist. im a different arti...