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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 20:53:41 GMT
I know it's regarded as an iconic building of its type, but I've always found it pretty horrible. It's an example of how brutalism/modernism started to go wrong from the peak of Le Corbusier.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 31, 2020 11:10:01 GMT
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Post by oh oooh on Feb 6, 2020 16:16:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 16:32:08 GMT
A few years ago now I attended an exhibition on British design in the jazz age. I was particularly blown away by the work of designer Enoch Boulton, a hitherto unknown figure for ne at the time. He knocks Clarice Cliff into a cocked hat and absolutely deserves to be as well known.
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Post by oh oooh on Feb 6, 2020 16:34:39 GMT
I like that.
Is Clarice Cliff the Charles Weetabix of the glass and ceramics world?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 16:42:41 GMT
I like that. Is Clarice Cliff the Charles Weetabix of the glass and ceramics world? More like the Adele!
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Post by oh oooh on Feb 29, 2020 10:57:53 GMT
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 29, 2020 14:24:17 GMT
The woman in the foreground isn't in the painting, is she?
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Post by oh oooh on Feb 29, 2020 14:29:55 GMT
Edited.
Google image search isn't showing up image sizes any more. At least not for me.
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Post by rayge on Feb 29, 2020 14:38:38 GMT
The woman in the foreground isn't in the painting, is she? How many women do you see in the painting?
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Post by rayge on Feb 29, 2020 14:47:38 GMT
image of david hockney mr and mrs clark and percy I used to feel that the title was more entertaining and true to the subjects and the times, and to Hockney's campery, than the image, but oddly, the further I've got from 1970 the more representative it's seemed. Whether that is my taste evolving, my knowledge of what came next for the Clarks and Hockney being accumulated, or I am editing my memories of the time in its image, I can't say.
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Post by oh oooh on Feb 29, 2020 15:13:31 GMT
The doc I watched last night showed this thing hanging (in the Tate?) and it looks pretty big. I looked the thing up online - didn't know it was one of his most famous pieces. I like it and I'd love to see it.
I know Hockney is still active - doing his art on an iPad, believe it or not. But what happened to Ossie Clark?
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Post by rayge on Feb 29, 2020 16:18:41 GMT
The doc I watched last night showed this thing hanging (in the Tate?) and it looks pretty big. I looked the thing up online - didn't know it was one of his most famous pieces. I like it and I'd love to see it. I know Hockney is still active - doing his art on an iPad, believe it or not. But what happened to Ossie Clark? Well, at the time of the painting he was the king of the King's Road. Lots of flowing gowns. Mrs Clark is Celia Birtwell, a textile designer, still alive. He had a rep as a druggie, and as a bisexual leaning heavily to gay [incidentally, in the late 60s, early 70s, 'Percy' was a popular nickname for the penis, popularized by Barry Humphries strip in Private Eye, Barry Mackenzie]. Just a few years after this picture was painted, Celia left him and took their two toddlers with her. Her went downhill, lost his mojo and money, became bankrupt in the early eighties and died aged 54 after being stabbed by a former lover. Not that I remember all this, I looked up the details, but the basic outline of crash and burn I knew about. And Percy in his lap looking out into outside world, while Ossie hoists a quizzical eyebrow at Hockney, was the key to the picture. I think maybe this is what Occupants meant by his comment about Celia.
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Post by oh oooh on Feb 29, 2020 16:22:51 GMT
Percy Plant!
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Post by rayge on Feb 29, 2020 16:31:39 GMT
indeed
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