Spencer, Stanley - Arte Figurativa
Two girls and a Beehive, 1910
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 cm
Private collection
Self-Portrait, 1913
Pen and ink and chalk on paper
345 x 215 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Zacharias and Elizabeth, 1913-14
Oil on canvas
152,5 x 152,5 cm
Tate Gallery, London
Self-Portrait - 1914
Oil on canvas
63 x 51 cm
Tate Gallery, London
Mending Cowls, Cookham, 1915
Panel
15,2 x 15,2 cm
Private collection
Swan Upping at Cookham, 1915-19
Oil on canvas
148 x 116,2 cm
Tate Gallery, London
Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916, 1919
Oil on canvas
183 x 218.5 cm
Imperial War Museum, London.
Soldiers at Thanksgiving Service, 1918
Wash on paper
54 X 53.5 cm
British Council Arts Group
The Bridge, 1920
Oil on canvas
121,5 x 122,5 cm
Tate Gallery, London
Christ Overturning the money changers' table, 1921
Oil on canvas
75 x 60 cm
Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham
The Resurrection - 1924
Country girl: Elise, 1929
Oil on canvas
83,8 x 76,2 cm
Private collection
Nude (Patricia Preece), 1935
Oil on canvas
50,8 x 76,2 cm
Private collection
St Francis and the Birds, 1935
Oil on canvas
660 x 584 mm frame: 870 x 770 x 53 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Cookham Lock, 1935
Oil on canvas
50.9 x 61.2cm stretcher; 66.6 x 76.7 x 3.8cm frame
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Jubilee tree, Cookham, 1936
Oil on canvas
91,5 x 76,2 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Portrait with Patricia Preece - 1937
Double Nude Portrait: The Artist and his second wife or The leg of mutton nude, 1937
Oil on canvas
91,5 x 93,5 cm
Tate Gallery, London
Hilda, Unity and Dolls, 1937
Oil on canvas
76,2 x 50,8 cm
Leeds City Art Galleries
Daphne, 1940
OIl on canvas
50,8 x 61 cm
Tate Gallery, London
Wisteria, Cookham, 1942
Oil on canvas
63,5 x 76,2 cm
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Self-Portrait, 1944
Oil on canvas
76,2 x 50,8 cm
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton
Bluebells, Cornflowers and Rhododendrons, 1945
Oil on canvas
51 X 76 cm
British Council Arts Group
Wheatfield at Starlings, 1947
Oil on canvas
50.7 x 76.2cm stretcher; 67.5 x 93.5 x 9.0cm frame
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Christ Calling the Apostles, 1951-1952
Oil on canvas
127.0 x 205.7cm stretcher; 141.0 x 220.0 x 7.5cm frame
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Self-Portrait, 1959
Oil on canvas
508 x 406 mm
Tate Gallery, London
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As obras de Stanley Spencer revelam a influência de tendências progressistas da sua época, embora nunca tivesse abandonado a arte figurativa. Spencer foi muitas vezes marginalizado por ser considerado um excêntrico, um artista que seguiu a sua própria visão cada vez mais idiossincrática, desatento em relação às correntes artísticas na altura. Na maioria dos seus quadros, com o uso da anatomia e do espaço deformado e estados psicológicos complexos, exalta de uma forma extravagante, infantil e por vezes perturbante a sua fé cristã e a sua vida na aldeia Thames Valley em Cookham, onde nasceu. É também conhecido pelas suas vastas decorações murais na Capela Burghclere, em Hampshire.
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To Sir Stanley Spencer Cookham was "a village in heaven". It was in this Thames side village that he grew up happy and secure as a member of a large and talented family. Stanley's early life in Cookham was the well spring of his inspiration and the village itself was an important background for many of his paintings. Stanley Spencer was born at Fernlea, Cookham High Street on 30 June 1891, the tenth child of a family of eleven, of whom two died in infancy. His father William was an organist and music teacher. Pupils coming for lessons and his older siblings practicing the piano or the violin created a musical atmosphere in which Stanley flourished. Music was always an important part of his life. Two of his sisters ran a school in a shed in Fernlea garden and Stanley received his early education at their hands. His reading was based on the Bible, Bunyan and Milton. He attended the parish church as well as his mother's Methodist chapel (now the Spencer Gallery). Fernlea, especially at mealtimes, was loud with discussion and argument as Stanley's older brothers talked with each other and their parents. Stanley watched, listened and absorbed. Cookham, prior to the First World War, was a rural community somewhat cut off from the outside world. The village High Street contained not only a working forge, a baker, butcher and chemist but opposite Fernlea, Ovey's Farm, whose cows fascinated Stanley when he sat looking out from the window of his bedroom. His brother Gilbert wrote of the village in summer, with "the excitement of the regatta ending with the fair on Cookham Moor where everyone descended; the gentry and their ladies in their evening clothes joining in with the hoi polloi, Social barriers were down and the mix up was attractive and complete." The young Spencer loved and embraced it all. His early interest and ability in art was fostered by lessons from a local artist and later by a year at the Maidenhead Technical Institute. In 1908 he went to the Slade School and gained several prizes as well as the nickname "Cookham" because he talked so much about the village and returned home there every night. Recognition came early, culminating in a knighthood towards the end of his life. Stanley painted over 450 pictures and made hundreds of drawings, many of them set in and around Cookham. Often, his Cookham paintings were placed in scenes remembered from childhood. Others were painted out-of-doors, the artist, trundling his painting gear along on the old pram he used, was a familiar sight in the village. In particular he followed his own vision of biblical events taking place in Cookham, and thus created the wonderful series of religious paintings setting the New Testament story in and around the village. Cookham has greatly altered since Stanley's early days but it is still possible to see many of the settings of his paintings and even the views he recorded so well. We hope the following walk will add to your enjoyment of his work.
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As obras de Stanley Spencer revelam a influência de tendências progressistas da sua época, embora nunca tivesse abandonado a arte figurativa. Spencer foi muitas vezes marginalizado por ser considerado um excêntrico, um artista que seguiu a sua própria visão cada vez mais idiossincrática, desatento em relação às correntes artísticas na altura. Na maioria dos seus quadros, com o uso da anatomia e do espaço deformado e estados psicológicos complexos, exalta de uma forma extravagante, infantil e por vezes perturbante a sua fé cristã e a sua vida na aldeia Thames Valley em Cookham, onde nasceu. É também conhecido pelas suas vastas decorações murais na Capela Burghclere, em Hampshire.
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To Sir Stanley Spencer Cookham was "a village in heaven". It was in this Thames side village that he grew up happy and secure as a member of a large and talented family. Stanley's early life in Cookham was the well spring of his inspiration and the village itself was an important background for many of his paintings. Stanley Spencer was born at Fernlea, Cookham High Street on 30 June 1891, the tenth child of a family of eleven, of whom two died in infancy. His father William was an organist and music teacher. Pupils coming for lessons and his older siblings practicing the piano or the violin created a musical atmosphere in which Stanley flourished. Music was always an important part of his life. Two of his sisters ran a school in a shed in Fernlea garden and Stanley received his early education at their hands. His reading was based on the Bible, Bunyan and Milton. He attended the parish church as well as his mother's Methodist chapel (now the Spencer Gallery). Fernlea, especially at mealtimes, was loud with discussion and argument as Stanley's older brothers talked with each other and their parents. Stanley watched, listened and absorbed. Cookham, prior to the First World War, was a rural community somewhat cut off from the outside world. The village High Street contained not only a working forge, a baker, butcher and chemist but opposite Fernlea, Ovey's Farm, whose cows fascinated Stanley when he sat looking out from the window of his bedroom. His brother Gilbert wrote of the village in summer, with "the excitement of the regatta ending with the fair on Cookham Moor where everyone descended; the gentry and their ladies in their evening clothes joining in with the hoi polloi, Social barriers were down and the mix up was attractive and complete." The young Spencer loved and embraced it all. His early interest and ability in art was fostered by lessons from a local artist and later by a year at the Maidenhead Technical Institute. In 1908 he went to the Slade School and gained several prizes as well as the nickname "Cookham" because he talked so much about the village and returned home there every night. Recognition came early, culminating in a knighthood towards the end of his life. Stanley painted over 450 pictures and made hundreds of drawings, many of them set in and around Cookham. Often, his Cookham paintings were placed in scenes remembered from childhood. Others were painted out-of-doors, the artist, trundling his painting gear along on the old pram he used, was a familiar sight in the village. In particular he followed his own vision of biblical events taking place in Cookham, and thus created the wonderful series of religious paintings setting the New Testament story in and around the village. Cookham has greatly altered since Stanley's early days but it is still possible to see many of the settings of his paintings and even the views he recorded so well. We hope the following walk will add to your enjoyment of his work.
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9:49 PMexcelentes escolhas.
12:04 AM
Só hoje, 1 de julho te descobri por aqui.
Claro que se tivesse um blog bem construído te "linkava" de imediato.
Quando tiver tempo para dar um jeito naquilo (o meu passa textos) que, inicialmente, era apenas para atirar raivas,lá farei o link.
Mas vou visitar-te aqui. Aprende-se...
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Maria Joao:
Interesting music.
2:31 PM
Blog sensacional. Excelente viagem.
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