Sir John Lawes Art Faculty

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Greek Vase Figures - link to Matisse

These do not particularly link to Barriers but they are similar to the Henri Matisse with the movement in the figures, the flowing shapes and flat colours.

Henri Matisse The Dance 1909

Here are two versions of Matisse's The Dance the top one is a sketch the lower one if the final painting. The painting shows circling figures with interesting use of negative space .

Matisse blue figure again with an interesting use of positive and negative space

Pablo Picasso image of figures - similar composition to the Matisse painting.

Monday, 21 January 2008

Kathe Kollwitz

Etching of a figure - look at how the hands create a barrier across the face a characteristic of Kollwitz's work.

Woman With Dead Child 1903

Survivors 1923 Lithograph

Call Of Death 1936

Out Of Work Lithograph

Kathe Kollwitz Museum http://www.kollwitz.de/

Kathe Kollwitz on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz

http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?gid=421&aid=3278239 more images

Vincent Van Gogh Prisoners Exercising

Vincent Van Gogh 'Prisoners Exercising' 1890 Vincent painted this towards the end of his stay at the asylum at Saint-Rémy. Thuis painting shows prisoners exercising so the figures create a barrier and they are contained by the physical barrier of the yard. Its easy to see how Vincent felt about the asylum. His painting is a stylised copy of an earlier print by Gustav Dore

Newgate - Exercise Yard Illustration by Gustav Dore from 'London, a Pilgrimage', written by William Blanchard Jerrold (1872)

Prisoners Kathe Kolwitz

Robert Mapplethorpe And Others The Human Figure

Robert Mapplethorpe 'Thomas' 1987 Photograph

Hendrick Goltzius
Phaeton from The Four Disgracers, late 16th century, first state dated 1588. Engraving, diameter: 12 15/16 inches.State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. OG-30417. © 2005 State Hermitage Museum.