Two quilts from the SAQA art quilt news mail-out - one pretty ... the other, personally preferable. My own
need to make something "pretty" seems to have evaporated, thank goodness; perhaps the sombre painting has knocked it on the head, or perhaps I've totally lost aesthetic judgment (hope not).
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| "Suffolk Landscape with Train" 1937 |
An artist new to me, Graham Bell. Several of his paintings are in the Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation
show at Tate Britain. Born in South Africa,
Bell (1910-1943) was a founder member of the Euston Road School, and for several years in the 1930s abandoned painting for journalism. He joined the RAF and was killed on a training flight.
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Street art - somewhere in London. Also, the disposition of street furniture adds greatly to the picture.
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"Narratives make sense of the world but they do not necessarily reflect the world as it is." Professor Hugh Cunningham, in his lecture "
What's happened to childhood"
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| "Peep Show" by Janet Crosby (Inspired By The V&A, 2004) |
Like the Graham Bell. I wonder if he worked in East Anglia. I feel a connection as I had an uncle who was killed on an RAF training flight near St Neots - flying a Lancaster on his own. We have only found out the details recently.
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