Today is LS Lowry’s 125th bithday (according to Google!).
He was an English artist famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as “matchstick men”.
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any paintings?
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so much industrialisation 125 years ago.
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More like 80-100 years ago, as he was born 125 years ago!
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But still great work from 80-100 years ago.
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One of my favs. He lived stone throw away/
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But still great work from 80-100 years ago.
Yes of course. I like how they are detailed and simple at the same time.
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some interesting facts about lowry:
His father died in 1932, leaving debts. His mother, subject to neurosis and depression, became bedridden and dependent on her son for care. Lowry painted after his mother had fallen asleep, between 10pm and 2am, or, depending how tired he was, he might stay up for another hour adding features. Many paintings produced during this period were damning self-portraits
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He expressed regret that he received little recognition as an artist until the year his mother died and that she was not able to enjoy his success
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After the outbreak of war Lowry served as a volunteer fire watcher and became an official war artist in 1943.
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In later years, Lowry spent holidays at the Seaburn Hotel in Sunderland, County Durham, painting scenes of the beach and nearby ports and coal mines
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When he had no sketchbook, Lowry drew scenes in pencil or charcoal on the back of envelopes, serviettes (napkins), and cloakroom tickets and presented them to young people sitting with their families. Such serendipitous pieces are now worth thousands of pounds
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As his celebrity grew in the late 1950s, he grew tired of being approached by strangers, and particularly disliked being visited by them at home. Another of his unverifiable stories had him keeping a suitcase by the front door so that he could claim to be just leaving, a practice he claimed to have abandoned after a helpful young man insisted on taking him to the railway station and had to be sent off to buy a paper so that Lowry could buy a ticket for just one stop without revealing his deceit
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After the outbreak of war Lowry served as a volunteer fire watcher and became an official war artist in 1943.
war artist?
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As his celebrity grew in the late 1950s, he grew tired of being approached by strangers, and particularly disliked being visited by them at home. Another of his unverifiable stories had him keeping a suitcase by the front door so that he could claim to be just leaving, a practice he claimed to have abandoned after a helpful young man insisted on taking him to the railway station and had to be sent off to buy a paper so that Lowry could buy a ticket for just one stop without revealing his deceit
So rude
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When he had no sketchbook, Lowry drew scenes in pencil or charcoal on the back of envelopes, serviettes (napkins), and cloakroom tickets and presented them to young people sitting with their families. Such serendipitous pieces are now worth thousands of pounds
I hope kinzz and you both possess such pieces, because you ladies are aunties :D
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war artist?
yup artist who depicts aspects of war through art
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So rude
I don't think its rude. I think its quite clever!