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Inspiration from Artists Wk 143 Featuring Artists : Carl Larsson and Ryan Mutter.

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Linda Wilson

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Having spent the first 7 years of my life 50 yards from a dock yard, it looks a bit close too close to home, but I do appreciate te a bit of British misery. However I prefer Lewis’s choice, despite the icy snow.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Massive contrast between the last two artists.  The first, Larsson, conveys the happiness the man found in his family - I remarked on the vibrant colour before, but it really lifts the spirits - and I had seen some of those paintings before, whereas the second artist, Ryan Mutter, is quite new to me - and what a find....  His paintings are historical documents of a vanishing past that was once the backbone of the national economy - hard and demanding work, reflected in the faces of those workers; it's easy to get nostalgic about the glorious past, when we actually made things; I wouldn't have wanted to have that as my only choice of occupation.   I do wonder how many of us would have coped back in the day, when the only work available was back-breaking and dangerous ... the world has changed, at least for those in the developed countries; it's important to have this artistic record.   But Mutter is not only an important painter of record, he's also a master of tone - his paintings have the impact to be found in the work of John Piper, and Rowland Hilder: two very different artists, but when they turned to industrial and architectural subjects, they too turned  tonal contrast and monochrome, or at least a very limited palette, to their advantage.  I imagine Mutter's paintings are quite big?  I'd love to see them in the flesh.  

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Norrette Moore

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I like both of these artists, although Mutter is new to me. A sort of a men-at-work series, something I've thought about doing for years, but don't have the available subjects anymore. The scaffold picture reminds me of workers at my local tube station, decades ago, building a new footbridge.  Men were scattered along it doing various bits of cement work. In the days before mobile phones, I didn't have my camera with me, and the next day the light had changed and so had the work. I learned at the Van Gogh exhibition that he too was interested in that subject for a while.
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Tony Auffret

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I think Dixie's 4th one down, the van and workers seen through the crane legs is my favourite.  It is hard to reconcile his more colourful landscape work with his industrial scenes.  I have chosen one of each to exemplify the difference.  The dockyard scene amused me because the men in bowler hats put me in mind of Magritte.
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Linda Wilson

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I really like the bottom one of the two.  The crisscross of the cranes and the contrast between the toffs in the bowlers and the workers/Yardies in their flat caps.  Though there probably should be more workers.  My local dockyard employed 20 thousand men post war, and more during WWII.
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A few more from me 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Next weeks featuring artists are : Tirzah Garwood and Ethelbert White . 
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