GCSE Art Exam 2023 Prisoners, Captives and People Locked up

 

This is a well known painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh painted it in 1890 while in The Saint Paul Asylum. Less well known is the fact that as he couldn't paint from real life Van Gogh copied from reproductions of others work and book illustrations. This is a copy of an 1872 Book Illustration by Illustrator and Artist Gustav Dore

This is Gustav Dore's illustration from 1872 showing prisoners exercising in a yard at Newgate Prison in London

In the 1970 dystopian film A Clockwork Orange loosely based on the book by Anthony Burgess director Stanley Kubrick took inspiration from the painting for a scene in a detention centre.

Francesco De Goya produced a series of three drypoint prints between 1810 and 1815 showing confined prisoners in leg irons. The faces are shadowed or left indistinct

Link to online exhibition on 'Instruments of Slavery'

Blind Curve (2010) Felix Lucero

Inmate Artist San Quentin Prison

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