Sky Arts ‘Portrait artist of the year’ - anyone watching?

Sorry, late to thread but back to one of the early posts and a bit of a derail -

my 15 yr old DD was made to watch a film about "puppy play" during RSE today at school!

WTF - I would be so angry Tollergirl
It's just sickening.

Anyway, I was busy watching master chef but thanks for the heads up, I shall have a peek on iPlayer and scroll through to the sad face at the end.

I really feel there's a daily mail story in there - "the artist painted a horrid picture of me"
accompanied by lots of sad face photos in his £325k house.

He wishes he looked like Angela Merkel and had had a tenth of her political success.

Yes, a man pushing 60 in "girl" mode
You'd have gone through the menopause with the flooding, sweats, brain fog, dryness, hormone changes, thinning hair etc.
But putting on high heels, lipstick and a dress is of course equivalent.

No surgery, no hormone treatment, just lipstick and stilettos.

He may have had some hormone treatment as he was sporting a prominent pair of boobs/moobs? recently.

I am so disappointed with Eddie, I saw him live twice and his ‘le sange’ sketch was the best ever. But then I came across his story about being aggressive to the 13 yo girls who ‘whispered about him’ invading the women’s toilets to change into a dress and then asked him why he he had done that. He shouted at them and then presented it like he was the victim and entirely in the right as a 20 something man to treat the girls like he did. Pathetic.

What's he on about? There is no such thing as girl mode. Being a woman isn't a feeling FFS. Just shows you how little respect he has for women.

Eddie izzard's take on gender used to be fresh. Now he's just doing doughnuts on my sex tbh.

He ain't in girl mode, he'd be in invisible crone mode like the rest of us.

I've really enjoyed PAOTY, there have been some amazing artists and sitters. I liked Bernardine Evaristo and Jane Horrocks. So many interesting artists that I was disappointed by the final three. Kofi was the best, the portrait of his son was lovely. Curtis and the scribbling is ok, but not overwhelming. Carlos Acosta has such a strong, dynamic presence, I don't think it was the best fit. Eddie Izzard, nope.

My mother in law was on the show she did the stitch portrait but didn't have enough time for her to finish her work.

Oh god I am so disappointed to hear this. PAOTY is my favourite TV programme but I am always a series behind because I live abroad. I can well imagine Kate Bryan fawning over Izzard (despite her whole shtick being championing women artists, so you'd think she'd know what one is)... but it's tragic to hear that they all seem to have bowed down at the altar of wokedom.

I love this series. But - Switched off at 'girl mode' and the artists using ' she'

The Curtis Acosta painting wasn't much cop either. The composition was good but CA looked like the giant in Princess Bride.

@Tollergirl if you can stomach it I would ask to watch the video so as to put you in a better position for questioning it.

Seeing what Curtis did with Carlos Acosta, I get why he won.
It is disappointing about Eddie, who I've always liked and admired his quick brain, because as one pp said, he was always so seemingly confident and proud about being a man who wore lipstick and heels. Maybe he wasn't really and felt like he wasn't part of a group and now, he's jumped on a bandwagon out of a need to belong. It's disappointing and makes him much less interesting.

What the hell has happened to PAOTY? Used to be about painting, now it's all about effing diversity. I can't stand Izzard (having paid to see perform twice) - raised male, socialised as male, all the privilege and benefits of the patriarchy, and now wants to be a 'girl'. No surgery, no hormone treatment, just lipstick and stilettos. What an insult to the lived experience of women. And the winning artist was a joke too. Hard to watch tonight.

That cheered me up after a crappy day!

Disappointed Curtis won. I liked his work least of the final three.

We usually watch this on catch up tomorrow but as I now know Curtis won I’m not going to bother as he shouldn’t have been in the final in the first place . There have been some pretty good artists in this series so I can’t believe Scribble bloke has won , there are some interesting posts on Twitter .

Who made Eddie look like Angela Merkel

God

I saw who it was and didn't watch it. Glad I didn't now.

Im quite offended that a has—been comedian like izzard gets compared to Angela Merkel. I have quite the intellectual woman crush on her.