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...well you don't expect people to buy your paintings - unless you're arrogant. You hope they'll buy them so you can feed yourself. Same as any product.
What a beautiful insight into one of England's most important artists. A simple and humble man with not a hint of the pretentiousness that prevails in the British art movement today. I don't think that we shall ever see his like again.
For me Mr Lowry is the most genuine British artist ever; His celebration of the common people and their life with clear social message is facinating. I enjoy trying to analysing each individual and groups of people in his paintings. His dedication to the working class and their hopes, dreaming and struggles is reveling. He developed his unique style and originality gradually and looking at his work I feel like teleported in the past in the North where the industrial revolution had a major impact on peoples' lifes. There is something, which is very difficult for me to explain but his work reminds me on old photographs that depicted the working class life.
@Diand Bull what on earth are you on about ? Heather Drew is correct in her statement. Lowry befriended a 13 year old child called Carol Ann Lowry in the 50s. A friendship which lasted until his death and bequeathed everything to her.
I thought the same thing, slightly lennonish sounding. I was in Manchester art gallery today and filmed some lowries there. Just uploaded the video to my channel if you or anyone else wants to see it ?
@@steadywoodward9390 Liverpool was originally in Lancashire, outlying towns like st Helen's and widnes have strong lancs accents. Theres obviously crossover. The way Lennon emphasises the last word in a sentence is very like Lowry.
Intriguing!! To listen and watch a true artist and master at work In many ways, though he admits he's often asked, there was still much about himself, his work and his life that he still could not understand or explain himself!! An indication of a true artist 😉 Self confessed to being lonely yet at the same time famed for painting crowds!! Living alone in a house with a room full of clocks to "keep him company" In many ways I felt and heard the voice of a man and artist asking for others to understand him?? The beauty with which he brought his paintings with a few strokes and dabs of his brushes and other artistic utensils, including even his finger tips Am a loner myself too and have never understood why it's just not acceptable to at times want if not even have to be alone and at other times thrive on good company and friendship? Mr Lowry It was a pleasure to meet you...✨..
Truly magnificent artist, I have tried painting buildings and it is highly difficult, much more than portraits I find, the skill in which he used to paint them is incredible. :)
What a man of intrigue...I think his perfection in his paintings may have displayed somewhat of 'the good sides' of Autism.....Doing 1 thing obsessionally well...As he certainly did...
Lowry was the original Manc. Preceeding Cooper-Clark, Morrissey, Brown and co. If you look closely each painting has a giant two finger salute hidden in his beautiful use of greys.
This is very sad. Very sad. He probably convinced himself that loneliness is better than company because he could not find any, and seems no one tried to become his friend in life. He probably was a virgin when he died too. Imagine that.
Big feet LOL I guess those London critics had never seen people in Lancashire clogs. No shadows again I laugh, you can't paint a shadow when a shadow doesn't exist. In that dark drab Mancunian light we would get excited on those rare days that the sun would break through and we would have a shadow and how it would follow us. Matchstick men and matchstick dogs and cats. Under nourishment was so common that you would be forgiven for thinking that the whole county was populated by matchstick people wearing great big clogs shuffling about in the dreary light of the smoke filled atmosphere that blanketed the whole city from summer to summer. Lowry didn't just paint what he saw. What he painted was as realistic as a photograph. It wer grim.
Why is it only 16 minutes long? There wasn't much tv content back then. TV stations even closed transmission every night from late evening until 6:00 am. So surely this documentary could have been made to 30 minute length?
I'm concerned about the format. In 1957 when made this should be 4:3 Academy ratio. I do not understand any advantage whatsoever in reframing for wide screen 16:9 because top and bottom frame information and composition is lost. Are we seeing the full image area with the Clark Art processing? There is a fashion for unnecessarily making footage fit widescreen nowadays but resolution is lost so how long is the format likely to last if moving to high res tv?
I think the full image is there but stretched. Squashed Lowry! I hate the obsession with wide screen. I also hate the way editors feel obliged to fill the blank screen either side of vertical mobile phone footage with fuzzy enlargements of the footage we really should be concentrating on! Just leave the rest of the screen black!
To most people , the paintings are crap, the kind of thing a kid would paint.. watching him paint a dog, like a sausage with t stick legs.. I mean come on, is that REALLY art? I guess I like things to look real, rather than child like, but each to their own.. its like some singers with terrible live voices that are hugely popular
+Terence Hutchinson I wont waste too much time here but there is a simplicity and a very clever aspect to his work. If you cannot see that I'm afraid that's your loss.
everyone is entitled to an opinion, but apparently yours is rather trollish, if you don't see the brilliance in the deceptively simple style..then that shows the narrowness of your view. Sad for you
He never claimed to be a great artist, even though he was classically trained... Lowry described himself as 'a man who paints.' Personally I find the style very interesting...
