#65

Really liked this when I saw it at the Tate Modern a few years back.

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#66

“OK, poets, we get it: Things are like other things.”

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#67

Same. I went to that too.

The room with the things of his ex wife were
interesting.

#68

THANK YOU

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#69

I nearly bought both! But don’t have the space. I also got a Damien Hurst tea towel which my mum used to actually wipe up some tea. “Noooo, that’s not for actually using!!!”

#70

Yeah. I had my son with me, so didn’t go in there. I’d seen them before though - I think Ciccolina was on The Word once which prompted me to check them out.

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#72

Always liked Lowry’s seascapes a lot. More than his popular stuff (indie points).

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#74

Not heard that before. Don’t know much about him at all really.

#76

Ok, guess I’ll just stick with the seascapes then.

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#77

Can you post an example? Blurred for content, if need be?

#79

Do you mean the marionette drawings?

I don’t know that they reveal him to be ‘awfully cruel’ to be honest.

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#81

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809168/

“I feel more strongly about these people than I ever did about the industrial scene. They are real people, sad people. I’m attracted to sadness and there are some very sad things. I feel like them.”

Maybe a bit patronising/misguided/misinformed etc, but doesn’t feel like he’s coming from a place of cruelty.

Or maybe he is? As you can probably tell, I simply wasn’t aware of this painting’s existence until a few minutes ago.

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#85

I am puzzled by what you are referring to. Do you mean a painting called “The Cripples”?

This is what he said about that particular painting: “‘I feel more strongly about these people than I ever did about the industrial scene. They are real people, sad people. I’m attracted to sadness and there are some very sad things. I feel like them.”

#88

I see that @ninetyeightytwo is as puzzled by your judgement as I am.

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#89

I dunno. The last thing that properly blew my mind was a Gunnel WĂ„hlstrand exhibition at a gallery in Stockholm. Totally blew my away.

Hard to do it justice on the internet but it was basically 8ft tall black and white ink paintings that looked like old photos til you got up close and saw all this really intricate detail. Amazing.

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#90

just liek stuff about michael jackson really

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#91

think it looks like most of them are just going about their day and having conversations with each other like any normal person would be doing, with children playing around them.

#93

Wow.