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Tony Blair as you probably haven't seen him before
Tony Blair is one of our least painted prime ministers – and if he were to visit a new exhibition by former war artist John Keane, he would probably be quite glad about that. Keane's portraits of Blair, though striking, are far from flattering. "I just couldn't bring myself to address him in any sort of literal way," the artist tells me. His paintings, on show at Flowers gallery in London, capture Blair answering – or not properly answering, in Keane's eyes – questions at the Chilcot inquiry almost a year ago.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 10 January, 2012
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