IS LOWRY A MODERN DAY JEROME BOSCH?
"Looking at Lowry "(1887-1976) That's what the exhibition was called .We were to see it at the Tate Britain in London. Pierrette had pointed out some of his work to me, but I knew nothing other than the artist had depicted the industrial revolution in the UK with accuracy. He was also known for his "stick people" and I could add "stick dogs"! If he was a painter of "modern life", the period recalls that of the impressionists but that period in Europe was, as far as painting goes, much more serene. Lowry was obsessed by crowds and that was probably unfamiliar in painting of that period. Going to the Match 1953 The football match A sky full of black smoke belching out of industrial chimneys, Wigan 1925 A manufacturing town 1922 Strangely enough, he was better known in France between 1928 and 1933 as his work was presented in the autumn Salons and critics were good. I guess his work reminded the French critics of artists