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.

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In 1920, Lowry 1930, arranged to work in a company which collects the rent, now a day he walks through the city, and that he sees? Children playing on the streets, people returning from work and going to work, talking on the steps, events, markets.
"I saw the industrial scene, and I drew them all the time, I drew them so well as I could, and it was quite difficult."
Lowry thought that make sketches as difficult as now, he always tried to do a quick sketch of what he had seen on any piece of paper, which was in his pocket.
Lowry was careful track of his paintings at home in his studio, carefully pondering each figuru.V end of his life, he will sit in a canvas not knowing what will be shown in his painting until he starts running.
Lowry used a relatively simple base colors, which he mixed and applied to a white base their paintings. "I am a simple man, I use simple colors: ivory, black, red, blue, yellow ocher, white flakes and anything srednego.eto everything I've ever used in his paintings. "

Lowry's father died in 1932, following seven years of his 73 year-old mother complete control of his life, until her death in 1939 godu.Ona constantly demanding his attention, Lowry can work in his studio until late evening, when she falls asleep. "She does not understand my painting, but she understands me and that's enough. "These years of isolation and growing despair was reflected in his paintings, he izobrazhet abandoned buildings, districts as the mapping of their lives.
As an official artist during the war it depicts the ruins of buildings destroyed by bombing.
In 1939, when his mother dies, a man whom he most wanted to please, he had his first exhibition in London and the Lowry nakonts something eats his first success. "After she died, I lost interest in everything." Continuation of deal painting, he perceives as a debt.
Once Lowry came to success, he immediately changed the topic of his paintings, which everyone wanted, he continued. "If I were not so odinik, none of my works would not have been written."
Most of his most powerful work-desert landshafty.Samye most complicated - single figures. "I feel much stronger in these pictures than in industrialized stsenah.Eto real people, sad lyudi.Ya was attracted to sadness and some very sad things. I love them. "
Everything comes too late for slishom Louri.No in his last years he still saw his glory and became very famous, but he was not sure whether his art of living.
"I drew from childhood to childhood, he did not agree with those who believed that he had already outlived its usefulness, bailed.

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Lowry died in 1976godu, just a month before the opening of his retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy, which broke all attendance records of exhibitions of artists 20veka.

Here is an interesting collection of paintings by Lowry (it was said that he painted "match people and animals, even in this ditty is sung).
Happy viewing! (Need to click on the picture)

[gans]

Tana, thank you very much. I must say a few music transforms his work, and they do not seem sad. In general, an alien reality always seems fantastic and mysterious.

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Tana, ba! Yes there still and clip!
Thank you, you are well prepared to Lowry. I admit, is only now about him and learned.
British art in general for me, largely incognito.

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Proof of life after death comes from different sources and
varying degrees of reliability. Example in April 1993
artist William Turner from Stockport put up for sale only
painted oil portrait of the late LS Lowry '. The famous creator
"Match person has agreed to pose for Turner, shortly before
his death and never saw the finished painting. But then some
medium told Turner that contact with him trying to enter the spirit
identified himself as Louverom. It soon became clear who it was. The message
transmitted by Turner, the spirit of Lowry explained that in the afterlife, he
continues to work, a lot of paints and creates images. He
approved the portrait, and advised Turner to allocate the money
separation of epilepsy local hospital.
http://dogset.od.ua/86.htm

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spirit Lowry said that in the afterlife, he
continues to work, a lot of paints and creates images. He
approved the portrait, and advised Turner to allocate the money
separation of epilepsy local hospital.

And in that branch of the medium's daughter was treated again?

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gans when I first saw pictures of the Lowry me they too seemed sad, but when you start to consider the details, they come alive.
Despite the fact that Lowry called himself a "simple man" he was interested in the main currents in the art of the 20 th century, in an interview with Mervyn Levy, he said that he admired the works of Rene Magritte, and Lucian Freud, but said that does not understand the work of Francis Bacon.

Cyril Syzransky for me it was also news (heard about it, too, a few years ago) and so decided to write (translated excerpts from articles about him), and the clip is really interesting.

Lowry is very popular in the UK, and we have-known, see its sale to Christie (by the way, I think in the end of May, Christie to sell several of his paintings and sketches).

relatively attractive investment

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I thought they were too sad, but when you start to consider the details, they are alive.

And I do not seem they are quite sad.

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he was interested in the main currents in the art of the 20 th century, in an interview with Mervyn Levy, he said that he admired the works of Rene Magritte, and Lucian Freud, but said that does not understand the work of Francis Bacon.

Feels and works, that he was "in the subject"

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Lowry is very popular in the UK

Already looked at it, yes. By the way, the picture-I had seen, but about the author knew nothing.
Generally, a British character-Lowry.
He lived 90 years, "simple man", drew and painted his "little people" ...

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Cyril Syzransky I also think it is very British artist ", which no one be confused.
I wonder how he found his theme, or rather, he lived among her more than 40 years he lived at 117 Stayshen Road opposite the church of St. Mark, in many of his paintings reveal precisely the neighborhood of this place (now the Manchester area).
whole life working in the same company collecting rent, when there were funds collected prerafaelitovskoy collection of paintings, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who is the source of his inspiration and support from Manchester football club.

Lowry said that "do not have the mind to be an artist, only feelings"