'Luck and Flaw' (Peter Nigel Fluck; Roger Law with Spitting Image puppets)
30 of 36 portraits of Alec Douglas-Home
'Luck and Flaw' (Peter Nigel Fluck; Roger Law with Spitting Image puppets)
by Gil Galvin
digital chromogenic print, 1984
15 in. x 15 in. (380 mm x 380 mm) image size
Purchased, 2010
Photographs Collection
NPG x134391
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
Artistback to top
- Guglielmo ('Gil') Galvin (1939-2013), Photographer. Artist or producer of 3 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Yuri Andropov (1914-1984), Leader of the Soviet Union. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Anthony Wedgwood ('Tony') Benn (1925-2014), Politician; Chairman of the Labour Party. Sitter in 26 portraits. Identify
- Anthony Frederick Blunt (1907-1983), Art historian and Soviet spy. Sitter in 7 portraits. Identify
- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-1982), Leader of the Soviet Union. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Viktoria Brezhneva (1907-1995), Wife of Leonid Brezhnev. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff (1912-2005), Prime Minister. Sitter in 22 portraits. Identify
- Javier Perez de Cuéllar (1920-2020), Secretary-General of the UN. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Sir Robin Day (1923-2000), Television and radio journalist. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022), Reigned 1952-2022. Sitter associated with 972 portraits. Identify
- Peter Nigel Fluck (1941-), Cartoonist, illustrator and artist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi (1942-2011), Libyan revolutionary and politician. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984), Prime Minister of India. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980), Film director. Sitter in 24 portraits. Identify
- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German politician; leader of the Nazi Party. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (1903-1995), Prime Minister. Sitter in 36 portraits. Identify
- Sir Michael Philip ('Mick') Jagger (1943-), Singer and composer; lead vocalist for the Rolling Stones. Sitter in 67 portraits. Identify
- Pope John Paul II (1920-2005), Pope 1978-2005. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (1902-1989), Iranian politician and cleric. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Roger Law (1941-), Cartoonist, illustrator and artist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- François Mitterand (1916-1996), President of France. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- (Keith) Rupert Murdoch (1931-), Publisher and newspaper proprietor. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), President of the United States. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986), Prime Minister. Sitter in 38 portraits. Identify
- Norman Tebbit, Baron Tebbit (1931-), Politician; Chairman of the Conservative Party. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts), Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven (1925-2013), Prime Minister. Sitter in 54 portraits. Identify
- (James) Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (1916-1995), Prime Minister. Sitter in 55 portraits. Identify
Events of 1984back to top
Current affairs
The Provisional IRA bomb the Grand Hotel in Brighton where various politicians, including the Prime Minister, where staying for the annual Conservative Party conference. The bomb killed five people including a conservative MP, but no members of the cabinet. Thatcher began the next session of the conference the following morning at 9.30 as planned saying: 'all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail.'Art and science
Dr Alec Jeffreys discovers that patterns in an individual's DNA can be identified and that each person has a unique 'genetic fingerprint'. The technique was soon utilised by forensic scientists to help in criminal investigations, and in order to identify human remains, for paternity testing, and to match organ donors.Ted Hughes is appointed poet Laureate.
International
Ethiopia suffers severe drought and famine. The Ethiopian government responded by uprooting large numbers of peasants in the worst affected areas and by setting up new villages for the displaced people. However, the planned villages were frequently poorly equipped and many people chose to flee rather than acquiesce with government plans leading to further decline in food production and bringing the total death toll to over 1 million.Comments back to top
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