Richard Morrisさんのイラストまとめ

'Corner of a Cafe-Concert.' The cropped realism of this scene is increased by the fact that it is one half of a painting Manet cut in two. The effect is jarringly powerful, adding to the sense that we’re not seeing a special event but simply a random moment in everyday life.

The figures in William Nicholson's painting of 'Canadian Headquarters Staff,'may seem identical from one another yet he grants them a range of body language & eyelines that effectively leads us through the painting, taking us away almost before we have realised what has happened.

This 1934 work 'The Dustman or The Lovers,' is certainly true to Stanley Spencer’s famous remark: 'I am on the side of angels and of dirt.' It portrays a dustman, returned home to the arms of his wife. She lifts him up like Christ ascending to heaven in their front garden.

Further news on one of the Stanley Spencer paintings I sold earlier this year. My buyer in Hong Kong has traced 'Waterpolo' to 1919 around the time as Stanley painted 'Scrubbing Clothes,' which was bequeathed to the Ashmoleum in Cambridge in 2013.

'The Three Graces.' 'Leonardo da Vinci promises us heaven, said Picasso. 'Raphael gives it us.' Picasso drew like Raphael & Ingres with a panoptic, all-conquering line. He saw the beauty in Raphael's grace. He also saw that Raphael's dignity was hard won.

Bacon and Freud glimpsed in 'The Colony Room I,' by Michael Andrews.

'Sisters,' by Robert Sivell

Described as one of the most brilliant artists of his generation, Eric Robertson's WW1 experiences as an ambulance driver left many piercing statements about his work. 'Shellburst,' is a deceptively simple painting of inescapable menace but it has absolute gravitas.

'Landscape.' Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was the pre-eminent French landscape painter of the first half of the 19th century. Corot's France is a melancholically beautiful place, wan and silvery.

'The Clyde from Corrie, Arran,' by
Mary Nicol Neill Armour.