Friday, November 06, 2015

York Art Museum 6/11/15

Burton Gallery

Jack Yeats
That we may never meet again *
c.55

Alan Moore type world
Very Irish

Hockney
Egyptian Head disappearing in descending clouds 61

Nerval youthfulness

Bomberg
The Bath 22

Herbert Read by Bryan Kneale
58

Spencer
The deposition and rolling away of the stone *
56

Interestingly constructed diptych
Thin slice at bottom
Resonant nails - looked at with fascination
Balled disciples

Allen Jones
Little ballerina no.1
83

Albert Moore
A Venus
1869

Overwhelmed with academia
Whistler palette of whites and greys
Whistler introduced Moore to Jap prints
Aesthetic Movement (art for arts sake)

Jankel Adler
The Poet 44 *
Polish Jew settled in GB
Enartete Kunst
Mixed sand in his paint
Friend of Klee

Chagall
Picasso

Nicholson
1934 aka still life birdie
34

Cf whistler greys
Pure

P Nash
Winter Sea*
14-26 25-37?

Cf todesmeer
Dymchurch

Fred Uhlman (was just thinking about him due to Herbert Read)
St corner in S Servan
49
To London 36
The London Grp
40-41 interned on IoMan

Rose Wylie
Doodlebug
98

Richard Jack
The return to the front
1916
Victoria station

Epic size clashes with initiate subject
How did they go back?!

Robert Hannah
Refreshing the Weary
1847

My white nursery rhyme book
I like Narrative images like this
Family is very young - sister not mother?

Edward Matthew Ward
Hogarths Studio in 1739
1863

Strange conception
Very unHogarth-like in spirit

Frederick Daniel Hardy
The Volunteers
1860

Fallen skittles lend it subtle pathos

Gwen john
Young Woman in a Red Shawl *
C.20

Whistler palette

PW Steer
Kimono
C.1894

Whistler

Walter Greaves
Nocturne in blue & gold
1870-79

Pupil of Whistler




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