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Inspiration from Artists Wk 210 Featuring Artists : Clifford Webb and Ralph Hotiere

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this week’s inspection thread  , I have made a change to the featuring artist as I had previously featured John Brunsdon .  This weeks featuring artist are Clifford Webb and Ralph Hotiere , I will begin the week and introduce Clifford Webb , on Wednesday Sandra Will introduce another New Zealand artist Ralph Hotiere.  Clifford Webb  1894 - 1972, was an English artist, illustrator and writer who specialised in animal drawings . He was apprenticed as a lithographer but served in the British Army during World War 1, he then studied at the Westminster School of Art 1919-1922. From 1923 to 1926 he was a part time lecturer at the Central School of Art in Birmingham. Webb produced illustrations for the first two books of the Swallows and Amazons series. He wrote and illustrated twelve books for children, illustrated five books for Ella Moncton his wife and illustrated books for fifteen other authors. I got a bit carried away picking out some examples of his work and need to cut it from twenty, I’ve tried to give a variety of the different types of work that he did.
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Sandra Kennedy

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Great find Paul and you've certainly chosen a good variety of his work.
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Lewis Cooper

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A fine artist, I admire all his work, but prefer the monochromes either in pen and ink or wood engravings.

Jenny Harris

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Lovely selection of monochromes, especially the birds.  I think I also prefer these to his paintings, although do like the ship.

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I agree about the monochromes, clean lines and good contrasts. I’m not so keen on his works in colour, could almost imagine they were by a different artist. Thanks for the intro and information.
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Sandra Kennedy

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 Hotere, Hone Papita Rakura (Ralph) (1921-2013) Looked on as one of NZ’s most important late 20th century artists Ralph Hotere began as a painter, later moving into sculpture and installation. His work reflected an abstract aesthetic, often characterised by an emphasis on the colour black, the use of crosses, circles and lines, and the incorporation of the stencilled and handwritten words of poets. His Catholic upbringing and Māori heritage underpinned much of his work, which frequently protested against injustice, war, human rights violations, colonisation, and industrial and environmental catastrophe. His ‘black paintings’ became his signature and best known artworks, and he produced many series throughout his career. I have looked to select a varied sample of his works.

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Tony Auffret

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There are aspects of abstract art that I can relate to, but those last two posted....seriously?  Can't help but think he was having a laugh at the expense of arty bollocks types.
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John Graham Inkson

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I agree with you Tony. I do like abstract art, but my favourite is semi abstract combining what we can all physically relate to, along with strong abstract elements in combined.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I don’t particularly like his work as it’s far to darl for my liking, forgetting that and looking at it again it has some nice shapes and marks . I really don’t like the last two , hate to be negative about an artists work, I don’t try to understand or loom for a meaningful reason for abstract work , I either like it as it’s colourful and I like the shape etc or I don’t like it . Unfortunately this comes into the don’t like category, I know Sandra doesn’t expect anyone to understand abstract concepts and will be the first one to say she isn’t keen on a painting so I feel I can be honest about how I see this artists work and know that she won’t be offended. Abstract is one of the most difficult styles of painting to share with people, often it’s a don’t know what it’s meant to be or what the artist is say, I admit I’m a bit in this category myself, so I just look and if I like it no matter why it’s a decent piece in my opinion. 

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Like Paul, I find his work rather dark and don’t really like the last two.  I do, though like the red one (seventh down and also shown as a wall panel in the third down).  It has an interesting textural quality to it, and I like the warm colours .

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George Cutter

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A good selection of Ralph Hotere's interesting work Sandra, thank you for introducing him. He appears to be a very sincere campaigner for human preservation, as his black paintings, like them or not as works of art, show. They were messages from a very concerned man rather than just paintings.
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