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Inspiration From Artists week 50 , Alexander Goudie and Lachlan Goudie.
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Welcome to week 50 , we are in for a treat this week as Marjorie is presenting a father and son both excellent are excellent artists. Alexander Goudie and Lachlan Goudie. I will leave it to Marjorie to decide which one she will introduce first , and say a thank you for taking on the challenge of two artist in the one week.
Can I remind you all to put on your thinking caps and choose a painting or several that you have particularly liked over the past year, end of February we will have reached the one year mark.
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Alexander and Lachlan Goudie, father and son.
At first I was considering only Lachlan but when I discovered his father’s work it was too stunning to leave out. So here we have two Scottish artists, the elder, Alexander, very influenced by The Glasgow Boys and their techniques and by Velazquez, Manet and Van Dyck and passing on to his son, Lachlan, all the skills and enthusiasm he acquired throughout his life both as a teacher and a painter.
Alexander Goudie (1933 - 2014)
Alexander Goudie was a Scottish figurative artist, a student at The Glasgow School of Art and, later a tutor at the School. He was flamboyant ( many photos show this) and considered by some to be opinionated. You get a sense of the man looking at his many self-portraits. As a portraitist his subjects range from Queen Elizabeth 11 to Billy Connolly and his paintings were collected by the Duke of Edinburgh. He married Marie-Renee Dorval ,a native of Brittany, and many of his landscapes and Still Lifes reflect life there.
More self- portraits and Lachlan as a little boy…..
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by Marjorie Firth
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Excellent introduction Marjorie, I admire the work of both artists.
My favourite paintings of the elder have got to be the series of 54 (?) paintings depicting Robert Burns poem, Tam O’Shanter. Two of which Paul has posted above.
They are on permanent exhibition at the Rozelle House gallery in south Ayrshire….and what a sight to behold!
If you want to be transported to the very nicht that Tam came upon the sights of Witchery in Alloway kirk and was chased by Nannie over the Brig o Doone, listen to the poem ….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-xw3oBCeY Paste and copy into Google.
It’s brilliant and brings the paintings alive.
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I've long admired Alexander Goudie's work, in particular the Tam O'Shanter series described by Fiona above. They appeal to my love of myth and Fantasy, the paintings are beautifully realised. I especially like this one, already shown above, but reposted here for convenience...
...even the tangled tree on the right seems to be reaching for Tam (a tree that Dixie will like, I'm guessing), in the tree's shadows are numerous dark beasties...something I missed the first time I saw this. A wonderous evocation of a wonderful yarn. I admire all his work.
I'd love to go and see the actual paintings, but that's unlikely now.