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Ladataan... Eric Ravilious: Artist & designerTekijä: Alan Powers, Eric Ravilious (Artist)
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More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of mid-20th-century England. This new survey of his work by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of his art in all media - watercolour, illustration, printmaking, graphic design, textiles, mural-painting and ceramics - and positions Ravilious firmly as a significant figure in the history of early 20th-century British art. Nominated for the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History 2013/14 Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The text is interesting, providing some historical and biographical background, but concentrating on the art, and it is the numerous illustrations that make this book worthwhile.
Reading a whole book about Ravilious hasn’t been an artistic revelation, as I have already seen illustrations of what I still consider to be the most memorable and impactful works. However the author has done an excellent job of showing the different mediums in which Ravilious worked, woodcuts and watercolours are expected, but there are also murals (now mainly lost), designs for Wedgewood Potteries, fabric designs and even furniture.
For me, Ravilious’ most engaging picture is the watercolour Train Landscape from 1939, with the chalk Westbury Horse seen through a railway carriage window. It surprised me to realise that the picture only measures about 44cm x 55cm. However seeing illustrations of so much work by Ravilious, the consistent emotional detachment of the art became very evident as you are exposed to the repeated absence or simplification of human figures. But this detachment can also create a nostalgic, timeless quality, even when the landscape is anchored with contemporary (now historical) objects.
A 2013 Guardian review which I think captures something of what I feel:
[Ravilious] remains the artist of the empty landscape and the uninhabited room, of a transient period in national life when the old and the new could still, just, be reconciled – even if he did have to create a parallel imaginative reality in which to do it. ( )