How good is Gordon Browns art collection?

By Andrew Graham-Dixon, Sundayart censor Published: 8:00AM GMT 07 March 2010

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David Austen"s array is engaging they are utterly quirky.

Falling Figures is unequivocally good. It"s similar to all the losses MPs descending in to Hell, a sort of Dante-esque image. I don"t think the catchphrases in the prints are going to figure as Labour slogans.

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From what I"ve read, Number 10 Downing Street is not a jail of love at the moment, conjunction is it a place where love is enough, it"s some-more similar to a place where zero can as if be enough.

The thought of a flourishing bequest of monsters is evermore loyal of Downing Street, no have a difference who is in power.

With Justine Smith"s Icons of the pound, dollar, yen and euro, as if those went on the walls prior to all had left wrong with the economy. They are utterly sober.

Would Gordon Brown wish to travel past reminders of how screwed up it is now, each day? It"s hilarious. What"s he doing?

He patently wants to be reminded that once on a time they were currencies you could rely on.

At each bill he used to similar to observant how he"d presided over the longest duration of mercantile expansion given Julius Caesar"s Rome, so may be these are his reminders he once did.

The Gary Hume is enigmatic. At �88,000 that"s great worth for a Hume, but I wouldn"t have paid for that one, I would have paid for one of his most appropriate works. This is utterly good, but I don"t think it"s great, it"s an surprising one to have bought.

But I"m blissful the Government buy � la mode art, at slightest it equates to it is not wasting all the money. Maybe Brown wants people to think he"s a great listener, a bit of "Me cheering at you? No, I"m listening to you. I"m all ears".

With Neeta Madahar"s photographs, may be the bird seed symbolises the benefits package that Brown gives to the people of Great Britain.

The birds could be black of the bad and inspired and needy who have never had it so good.

Alternatively, a some-more right wing celebration of the mass could be that these birds are outlandish and underneath Brown"s catastrophic leadership, all kinds of skivers have been speedy to leave the nation to this nation and they are vital off the bird table.

It is a deeply obscure domestic matter with obscure black of colonialisation and sustenance.

It is great that they are shopping work from black British artists similar to Peters 1 by Hurvin Anderson. At initial steer you competence think it looks a bit anodyne, but essentially may be it"s got a bit of an corner to it.

Laura Lancaster"s cinema are utterly post impressionist. They competence have dark abyss and meaning, but we"re not sure. They do see similar to late post-Impressionist works, but there"s probably a little kind of subtext there, you never know with these � la mode artists there is regularly dark depth.

Anne Hardy"s Outpost looks similar to a kind of pick universe. Maybe that"s what the Prime Minister is forgetful of vital in one.

Paul Seawright"s photograph, Untitled (Woman and Child) looks similar to a kind of call to demur that these are the kinds of people governments should be helping, generally severe governments.

To me, this design says Gordon Brown believes in multicultural Britain and believes in assisting people who live in it.

Gillian Carnegie, I don"t unequivocally know what to have of that, it doesn"t contend a lot to me, it is kind of bland.