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L.S. Lowry

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L.S.Lowry
Laurence Stephen Lowry did not like to think about himself as an novice artist.
Individuals would occasionally accuse him of being self-taught and untutored. he commented,
"Started at fifteen years old. Don't know why?" My aunt stated "You seem to be no good for anything,
so you may as well go to Art School."
LSLowry started evening courses in antique art and free hand art drawing during 1905.
Later becoming a student in each the Manchester Academy of Fantastic Art and The Salford Royal Technical College at Peel Park.
College records present that Lowry attended art classes through the 1920's. Lowry had learnt from academics,
individuals such as the Frenchman Adolphe Valette.

This French Impressionist artist had made a huge impact on the artwork world.
He noticed from exhibitions in Manchester how the present developments in fashionable art were altering,
and had an affection for Pre-Raphaelite art, by artists similar to Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.
A naive Sunday artist LS Lowry actually was not. Lowry strove for a particular method of painting and drawing, and for a topic Lowry might make unique.
Lowry ultimately selected the view from the Technical College window. Industrial scenes of Salford and Manchester, as opposed to that of a mannequin posing.
Throughout the early years L.S.Lowry lived in Victoria Park, the suburbs of Manchester.
As a result of lack of cash the household moved to Station Highway, Pendlebury.
There, the tree lined streets changed to manufacturing facility chimneys. Lowry recalled "At first I detested it, and then, after years,
turned pretty fascinated by it, ultimately obsessed by it".
He saw the topics for his work throughout him. In Lowry's later life, L.S.L. recalled a particular event. "One day after missing a train from Pendlebury
(a nearby town) I had ignored for seven years, and on leaving the station, noticed the Acme Spinning Firm's mill.
The large black framework of rows of yellow lit windows standing up against the unhappy, damp charged afternoon sky.
The mill was turning out. "Gazing at this scene, which I had looked at many occasions with out seeing, with rapture."

An author in The Guardian newspaper, Bernard Taylor, recognized the distinctive quality of Lowry's paintings, when he reviewed an early exhibition.
"Mr Laurence Stephen Lowry has a very attention-grabbing and individual outlook.
Lowry topics are Manchester and Lancashire avenue scenes, interpreted with technical means as yet imperfect, however with actual imagination.
We hear a terrific deal nowadays about recovering the simplicity of vision of primitives in art.
These pictures are authentically primitive, the true factor not an artificially cultivated likeness to it.
The issues of illustration are solved not by reference to established conventions, however by sheer willpower to express what the artist has felt.
Whether the result is in line with rule or not..."

Lowry laboured as rent collector for the Pall Mall Property Company, preferring to maintain his other work secret.
Lowry did not need the public to think about him as an amateur artist.
The job led to Lowry walking everywhere in the city offering L.S.Lowry with many sights and experiences.
Kids enjoying within the streets, people returning from work, going off to work, gossip on the entrance steps,
incidents, market places and Whit - processions.
But all this changed, the blitz and rebuilding, slum clearances and new housing, modified the face of town Lowry had observed so well.
"I saw the industrial scene and was affected by it.
Attempting to draw it all the time and trying to express the industrial scene as well as possible.
It wasn't easy, effectively, a camera may have performed the scene straight off".

Lowry felt that drawings were as labour intensive to do as paintings. Working the surface of the drawings by smudging, erasing and rubbing
the pencil lines on the paper to build the ambiance of the drawing.
This artist would typically make fast sketches on the spot on no matter what paper he had in his pockets.
L.S.Lowry carefully composed his drawings in a painting room at home and took nice care over placing each figure.
Late in life he would sit before a canvas or board on his easel and never know what was going to be in the painting until he started working.
He would call them them "dreamscapes".

Please take a moment to browse and enjoy the signed limited edition prints and paintings by wildlife artist David Shepherd,
Also the work of Sir William Russell Flint whose paintings and signed limited edition prints are in great demand.
Famous for his portraits of Cecilia, Flint's greastest works illustrate the architecture and landscape throughout rural France
This holiday house near Brantome, in the area of Dordogne is ideally situated to enjoy the France.
The work of Mr L.S. Lowry has become of great artistic and financial importance of recent years. A selection of his signed prints and drawings can be viewed and bought here
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