Analysis Of What Do All Day Jack Vettriano

What do Artists do all day is a series of documentaries about artists (sculpture, dance, painting) and their insights in their daily work. The third episode is about Jack Vettriano, a Scottish self- taught painter. The whole episode is narrated by Vettriano (plus the text on a screen about his paintings) where he talks about his artistic inspiration and his life (past and present) as a painter. He explains his painting techniques while he is working on his current project- new painting with an actress Kara Tointon as a model. The structure is linear, we follow the painter through his day. The programme is an extremely intimate portrait of an artist. The episode has a slow pace and a poetic, artistic atmosphere which should depict the character of the painter and his works. …show more content…
The series was commissioned by BBC Four which tv programmes are directed to an older audience (35 years old and above). Therefore the series of documentaries is created for a more demanding audience. The directional intention is to show different aspects of art and leaves the wide interpretation of it to the public. It does not impose its own opinion but rather leaves the audience to contemplate the art and the painter's work. The director tried to show that the day of an artist is often full of struggles, problems and hesitation; that it does not look like we can imagine. Moreover, the documentary does not strictly talk about techniques and it is not full of knowledge, the directional intention was to show the human side of an artist rather that makes it as an expository