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Art legend's pride of place
by Paul R Taylor7/ 7/2006
AN entire collection of LS Lowry's work will be on display for
the next three months.
More than 350 paintings and drawings by the artist will be
exhibited at The Lowry, Salford Quays, from tomorrow (Saturday)
until September 10.
Lawrence Stephen Lowry, who was born in Old Trafford in 1887 and
died in 1976, is famous the world over for painting scenes of life
in industrial Salford, where he lived and worked for more than 30
years.
The exhibition - A City's Pride - will display Lowry's work in date
order with visitors shown how he used pencil, watercolour and
pastel, as well as ballpoint and felt tip pen as they became
available. Lowry often sketched on things close to hand and there
are many examples of his rapid drawing on scraps of paper,
demonstrating the obsessive and compulsive nature of his art.
As well as the familiar mill scenes, with their matchstick men,
cats and dogs, the exhibition will show the lesser-known side of
his work - portraits, seascapes and his sparse modernist
drawings.
The empty landscape is one of many themes running through his work.
They include studies of silver-white lakes with blue-green hills
and deep valleys. He was also fascinated by the sea, producing many
drawings and paintings of huge empty seas, turbulent waves and
solitary ships.
Far from the simple man he claimed to be, Lowry was a complex
individual and a mystery, not only to those who were close to him,
but even to himself.
He was also notoriously elusive when asked to explain his work,
often posing more questions than giving answers. For all their
apparent simplicity, his paintings are abstract records, elusive,
enigmatic and compelling and deeply marked by the grotesque and the
uncanny. His work elicits different responses from viewers of all
ages, who all find his work intriguing.
The gallery is open from 11am-5pm (10am-5pm Sundays).
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