My Week: Dan Stevens It's been a week of firsts – artistic and otherwise...
Written By Dan Stevens
And so we finally wrapped on Summer in February, a film based on Jonathan Smith’s beautiful novel about a tragic love triangle in an artists’ colony in 1913. This week it became the first ever feature to be allowed to film in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, where one of our triangle, Alfred Munnings, eventually became president. Munnings fell out of favour with the RA when he dismissed so-called “modern artists” in his president’s address of 1949, implying that if he were to encounter Picasso in the street, he would take great pleasure in kicking him up the a---. Before all that, however, Munnings was at the vanguard of British “impressionism”, so it seemed a fitting end to the shoot to involve the impressive exterior of this pantheon of British artists.
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