Wednesday 13 July 2011
British Artists - Modern
Mark Gertler
Almost a premonition of the merry-go-round that Britain could not get off.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (one of my first encounters with JH)
Painting the idelaised Victorian wealthy Brits - on one long afternoon tea break. Not a real depiction of the other side of Britain though!!
12 Sep 1907 -Murder -
Making his way home from work to Camden Town he arrived home to discover his murdered wife.
Sickert dared to paint it - in stark contrast to Alma-Tadema he painted the grubbiness of Victorian Britain as opposed to the fairy tale paintings of the rich.
A painting of a murder scene.
Walter Sickert
A woman asleep on the bed? But why the jewellry, the red lipstick? The crooked neck?
A murdered prostitute!
The overcoat (bottom left) means the client, the murderer is till in the room. The murderer is still in the room. And the viewr is the person in the room!!! We, the viewer are the murderer. Looking at our dastardly deed.
A bit of kick in the teeth for the Victorian rich!!!
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Apparently a lot of his work was destroyed in fires or disappeared never to be seen again - ?????
David Bomberg
Christopher RW Nevinson
Never served at war and yet his work was acclaimed because of his depiction of war (falsely - apparently - claiming that he was there!)
Sunset and sunrise are blasphemous - Paul Nash
Silent, empty, wordless.
After Passiondale
A man who was previously a lover and painter of trees but his art changed after his experience in WWI
Stanley Spencer - seemed to paint the banality of war.
Sandham war memorial - a sense of hope
Almost a premonition of the merry-go-round that Britain could not get off.Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (one of my first encounters with JH)
Painting the idelaised Victorian wealthy Brits - on one long afternoon tea break. Not a real depiction of the other side of Britain though!!
12 Sep 1907 -Murder -
Making his way home from work to Camden Town he arrived home to discover his murdered wife.
Sickert dared to paint it - in stark contrast to Alma-Tadema he painted the grubbiness of Victorian Britain as opposed to the fairy tale paintings of the rich.
A painting of a murder scene.
Walter Sickert
A woman asleep on the bed? But why the jewellry, the red lipstick? The crooked neck?
A murdered prostitute!
The overcoat (bottom left) means the client, the murderer is till in the room. The murderer is still in the room. And the viewr is the person in the room!!! We, the viewer are the murderer. Looking at our dastardly deed.
A bit of kick in the teeth for the Victorian rich!!!
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Apparently a lot of his work was destroyed in fires or disappeared never to be seen again - ?????
David Bomberg
Christopher RW Nevinson
Never served at war and yet his work was acclaimed because of his depiction of war (falsely - apparently - claiming that he was there!)
Sunset and sunrise are blasphemous - Paul Nash
Silent, empty, wordless.
After Passiondale
A man who was previously a lover and painter of trees but his art changed after his experience in WWI
Stanley Spencer - seemed to paint the banality of war.
Sandham war memorial - a sense of hope
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