Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)

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Laurence Stephen Lowry (Laurence Stephen Lowry) (1887-1976)
"If people call me a Sunday painter, I am a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!"
Lowry has always irritated the people who polagli that he was an amateur painter, self-educated and uneducated. "I started when I was fifteen. I do not know why. Aunt told me that I was unfit for anything, so I was sent to learn in art school ..." Since 1905, he began attending evening classes and free antique image. He is engaged simultaneously in Manchester at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal College of Salford Peel Park. According to academic data, he attends classes until the 1920 year.
Far from being naive Sunday painter, Lowry was an artist who seeks his own way in painting, and sometimes he would make their own choices, preferring to depict the view from the window and Technical College, posing as a model.
His rannoe years, Lowry has lived in the suburbs Manchestera.Iz for lack of money, the family lived in the factory area where the factory chimneys were more familiar sight than derevya.Louri later recalled, "At first I was depressed at this, but after a few years, I was very interested This, then-obsessed. "themes for his paintings, he found at its doorstep.