Flesh - York Art Gallery 3/11/16

1 FLESH

Francesco Francia - Lucretia c1508
Vivacious light palette

Italian School - Pieta 1575-1642
Right arm = Classical death cf Chatterton

Style of Tosa School
Kusozu: death of a noble lady & decay of her body
Cf Sam Taylor Wood
Sequence of 9 images

Bacon
Henrietta Moraes on blue couch
65
(Manc art gal)
Cf Soutine Carcass of meat
Cf Picasso - facets of face

Kossoff
Seated nude 63
Cf Auerbach - thick paint technique

Freud
Girl holding foot
87 etching

Masterful fine hatching technique

Degas
Study of girls head 1870s
Interesting palette - strokes of pale green & yellow

2 ANATOMIES

Jacob Kramer
Clay 28
Leeds Art Gal

Slade
Foreshadowing of Holocaust

3 STILL LIFE

Helen Chadwick
The philosophers fear of death
89

Infinity or hourglass
Hairy belly v chicken flesh

4 ABSTRACT FLESH

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BURTON GALLERY

LS Lowry
Clifford's tower
52/3
Linking the ages
Jewish resonance

Arthur Studd 1863-1819
Went to Samoa & Tahiti with Gauguin

Robert Medley 05-94
Bicyclists agst blue bg 51
Festival of Britain commission
Sketchy black outlines very 50s

Hockney
Egyptian Head Disappearing into Descending Clouds
61

Lightness
Carelessness of youth

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Orange Form 56
Nicholson & Hepworth /St Ives
Beautiful subtle textures

Nicholson
1934 (1934)
Cf Picasso still-lifes
Complexity of texture v simplicity of form

Gwen John
Young woman in red shawl
20
Cf Schiele - hands
Wonderfully subtle palette

Jacob Epstein was friend of Paul Robeson
Visited Harlem dancehalls together

Harold gosney
Reverie
2015 oak

Grew out of the shape and cracks of the wood

Fungai
Dead Christ supported by 2 angels
1480-1520

Fingers in wound so powerful

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