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The Loneliness of Lowry
Opens: 17/07/2010 Closes: 30/10/2010
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
The Abbot Hall Art Gallery presents a collection of works that look at the loneliness of Lowry. Bleak landscapes created from solitary observation sit beside some of his more familiar urban scenes and portraits. All indicate the isolation of an often overlooked master.
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The Independent“There is not a single blue sky anywhere in this show...” The seascapes remind you just a tad of the sea in films by Ingmar Bergman. There is no hope here. The sea is a chilly, sullen and unfathomable no-place, often ruled by a sullen, pinky light. Now and again a bit of a ship hoves into view...
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Guardian“Enigmatic, empty canvases...” The key to Lowry's loneliness is probably in none of these paintings so much as a mordantly funny and surprisingly colourful pastel cartoon entitled Courting, in which a dour, big-nosed figure interrogates a woman sitting stiffly opposite...
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