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LOWRY
By Julian Spalding
With 48 colour plates
One of the most rapid rises to fame in the art world in recent years has been that of L. S. Lowry (1887-1976). Lowry painted for decades before achieving the recognition he deserved, and it was only in the last three or four years of his life that his true quality and originality were acknowledged. He has now become one of the best loved of modern English painters.
Lowry spent all his life in industrial Manchester, an area he loved. He never shunned its bleaker aspects, but found a quirky poetry in them; as well as the smoking chimneys and the mills towering over the terraces, he painted the city-dwellers, their habits and the incidents in their lives, all of which he was able to observe on his daily rounds as a rent collector. Lowry's... Tovább

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LOWRY
By Julian Spalding
With 48 colour plates
One of the most rapid rises to fame in the art world in recent years has been that of L. S. Lowry (1887-1976). Lowry painted for decades before achieving the recognition he deserved, and it was only in the last three or four years of his life that his true quality and originality were acknowledged. He has now become one of the best loved of modern English painters.
Lowry spent all his life in industrial Manchester, an area he loved. He never shunned its bleaker aspects, but found a quirky poetry in them; as well as the smoking chimneys and the mills towering over the terraces, he painted the city-dwellers, their habits and the incidents in their lives, all of which he was able to observe on his daily rounds as a rent collector. Lowry's apparently artless style grew out of years of study and change, and conceals an extraordinary sense of composition and skill in handling paint. The plates in this book are arranged to show how his early impressionistic paintings gave birth to the magnificent but often gloomy mill scenes of the twenties, how his art underwent radical changes in the thirties and again in the fifties until, right at the end of his life, his industrial landscapes faded into the distance, leaving his little figures isolated in a sea of white.
It has been argued that the connecting thread that links all these different styles is Lowry's 'loneliness'. But the author here suggests that Lowry was a loner by choice, a rogue artist who observed with compassion, and with a biting sense of humour, the goings-on of the world around him.
Julian Spalding is Deputy Director of the Sheffield City Art Galleries.
Jacket: detail from The Pond (London, Tate Gallery) Vissza