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Art
- Thread starter TyphooToffee
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I don't think I read your post properly, misinterpreted it and went steaming off on the wrong track. Sorry mate
It's a much under-appreciated piece of work.
But it's in the way
When I first started drawing I drew a portrait of Tara Bardot, a Page 3 model from the 80s. I sent it to The Sport and they published in their letters page. I've srill got a photocopy of it somewhere. My signature then was a thumbprint body with arms - one hand holding a pencil and the other holding a miniature copy of the drawing. I can't use this signature now as it would invite questions about the meaning of the thumbprint.
I was Googling Nick Wyatt, our art teacher. I saw he's a Cubitt artist and wondered what a Cubitt artist was. Turns out a group of artists set up studios in a building in Cubitt Street in London after they were told to move from their original studio building in Kings Cross by BR due to the expansion of Kings Cross Station.
Here's a link to the Cubitt Artists' history
And one to Nick Wyatt's studio
Here's a link to the Cubitt Artists' history
And one to Nick Wyatt's studio
@TyphooToffee, what do you reckon on this for an interesting photo to paint? Appears to have a good mix of colours, shades, and textures.
I agree it's an interesting and pleasing mixture of colours and textures but there are too many clothes for my liking. Nudes are easier and more pleasurable to paint. I wish I could find that Tara Bardot drawing. It wasn't a full-frontal nude and I was very pleased with it. I wonder if I'll find it and see how bad it is now I've been practising.
Not that I can paint, but I kind of like the relationship between the model and the clothes etc. Personally, painting or drawing full nudes wouldn't interest me unless I was doing it for practice. Having said that, I would like to try my hand at either of these two photos. Although the second pic is naked, I find it quite a strong and provocative pose.
Hopefully, you can find your Tara Bardot drawing, it would be interesting for you to see how you've progressed over the years. I'll try and upload the one painting that I finished many moons ago. It's nothing interesting, just a watercolour of a couple of birds on a branch.
LeeM
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I accidentally went to art school and had pretensions of becoming a working class artist/set designer much to the disbelief of everyone I knew but uni left me completely put off. It felt like the place to go as a council estate boy who secretly read books and drew a lot, an upgrade from 'painting trains' or dossing round the flats.
Still like going to galleries, especially outside of London, looking for depictions of working class life and local history, and I love Egon Schiele's work, amazing stuff. Quite like German expressionism and New Objectivity stuff. Living in Peckham my main experience of art now is outsider bouji led gentrification, loss of community assets, 'edge' seeking property-millionaires and dumb fauxhemianism.
Still like going to galleries, especially outside of London, looking for depictions of working class life and local history, and I love Egon Schiele's work, amazing stuff. Quite like German expressionism and New Objectivity stuff. Living in Peckham my main experience of art now is outsider bouji led gentrification, loss of community assets, 'edge' seeking property-millionaires and dumb fauxhemianism.
Methuselah
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we hear a lot about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel but no one ever mentions the Guisseppi brothers who tiled the floor.
Just Googled Egon Schiele. Does he paint anyone else other than himself?
EDIT
Obviously Google took me to photos of him, rather than his paintings, which I have now seen. Much prefer the 'normal' work to the distorted.
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LeeM
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I think most of his work was self-portraits, some landscapes early on but he's mostly know for human bodies stripped back to some grim essence. A lot of prostitutes too. I don't think his work was as self indulgent as it can look at first, but I just remember reading that and have forgotten the argument for that case which seemed reasonable at the time. It suits those who a drawn to existentialism, I think.
His life was quite grim from what i can remember, and i think he was arrested for 'seducing a minor' which unfortunately for his fans isn't slang 'took up the piano'.