tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post8635920196990674420..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: John Atkinson Grimshaw: a painter of the nightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-68332927048665982902011-04-23T23:23:11.840+10:002011-04-23T23:23:11.840+10:00Atkinson Grimshaw's evocative paintings are a...Atkinson Grimshaw's evocative paintings are alleged to show no marks of handling or brushwork - perhaps suggesting that his working methods were curious or even suspect. He is known to have used photographs rather than paint direct from nature. <br /><br />His pictures of suburban lanes by moonlight are especially haunting, I think.Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-19495231169559502772011-04-22T12:41:55.082+10:002011-04-22T12:41:55.082+10:00Never heard of the guy, but his paintings are awes...Never heard of the guy, but his paintings are awesome.<br /><br />A couple of things stand out...<br /><br />The perspective is always from a means of travel, or the 'road' (literally in many cases it seems. There is no interaction between the artist and the subjects, and landscape is the primary mode of thinking. Suggests the artist feels removed from society, or somehow disconnected. Doing painting at night also suggests he was sensitive to light, maybe had lupus or somesuch. Which means he could have been in a sanitorium.<br /><br />But he captures emotion amazingly well. The fact that he does this with a LANDSCAPE of all things means this guy was a genius as far as I'm concerned.Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339614725666249518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-13635841907922162072011-04-21T09:48:13.518+10:002011-04-21T09:48:13.518+10:00It is good isn't it.It is good isn't it.Jesse_7https://www.blogger.com/profile/08732509086253241748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-10263255052086963842011-04-21T08:08:18.219+10:002011-04-21T08:08:18.219+10:00"This is art which captures a heightened resp..."This is art which captures a heightened response to our surroundings. I can't help but prefer it to art which merely sets out to shock."<br /><br />Greatly agreed. The pictures are splendid. A blogger called "ThinkingHousewife" has plenty of posts on art and the message it transmits from a traditional conservative perspective.<br /><br />Here is her website --- www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/<br /><br />I myself have made new guidelines concerning anything I read, watch or listen to.Elizabeth Smithhttp://alcestiseshtemoa.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com