Clayton Cubitt

I was just reading about Clayton Cubitt wo aparently is getting his erotica into galleries. This seems remarkable to me in some ways. I have understood that photographing erotica is not well accepted in the art world. Or probably generally. I can hear the tch tch as I write. But sometimes, some erotica is actually so beautiful.
His Cream series are explicit but there is something compelling too



   

Children Under the Palm

 Winslow Homer

In June ownership was under dispute after a fascinating tale ...  I will write more later - too tired
Need to remember Myrtle Grove Youghal

Bliss
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Hasten to remove hurt from my soul

"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?" ~Horace~

Too exhausted to write anything really. Lack of sleep and ....... emotional drain

Bliss
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Eating Disorders Training Day

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