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Gerald Scarfe
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Scarfe to reveal his secrets at Hampstead Theatre
THE satirical artist Gerald Scarfe will be talking about his work on Thursday at the Hampstead Theatre.
The audience can expect to hear the strange paradox that face satirists when considering the state of the world.
Because no matter how awful Mr Scarfe believes Tony Blair and George Bush may be, he can’t hide from the fact they have given his profession plenty of easy targets to turn his crayons towards.
He said: “Some people only have to open their mouths for you to know what they are going to look like on paper.
“When you have some one like Margaret Thatcher you knew she was sharp, like scissors or a knife, which made her great to draw.”
“The more arrogant they are, the better it is for me – the better drawings they make.
“That is why I am having such a great time at the moment with George Bush. He is such a parody anyway.”
Mr Scarfe, who grew up in Hampstead, has experience when it comes to creating images of American presidents.
While working for Time magazine in the 1970s he was given the brief to follow President Richard Nixon on the 1972 campaign trail.
Mr Scarfe recalled: “When the Nixon camp found out who I was and what I was up to, they tried to get me barred. But I had got my accreditation so there was nothing else they could do.”
But others haven’t been so easy.
Mr Scarfe continued: “Take Ian Duncan Smith. What do you do with him? I once went on Breakfast With Frost with IDS, and Frost said to me: go and draw him and show us what you have done at the end.
“I turned round a blank piece of paper: that’s the best I could do.”
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