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Alan Sorrell: The Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist
Paul Liss
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Alan Sorrell’s early ambition was to be a painter of imaginative narrative pictures, often in the form of mural decorations. In this he was successful, creating throughout his life evocative compositions influenced by much that he had seen of Italian Renaissance painting, but filtered through his own version of a vigorous northern European, English tradition. It is an important aim of this publication to demonstrate that the archaeological and historical ‘reconstruction’ drawings and paintings of the later part of his life are also important works of art which, if they were magically stripped of their association with archaeology, would still ... Read more
Alan Sorrell’s early ambition was to be a painter of imaginative narrative pictures, often in the form of mural decorations. In this he was successful, creating throughout his life evocative compositions influenced by much that he had seen of Italian Renaissance painting, but filtered through his own version of a vigorous northern European, English tradition. It is an important aim of this publication to demonstrate that the archaeological and historical ‘reconstruction’ drawings and paintings of the later part of his life are also important works of art which, if they were magically stripped of their association with archaeology, would still ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Redcliffe Press Ltd
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908326379
SKU
V9781908326379
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Reviews for Alan Sorrell: The Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist
It is extraordinary that Alan Sorrell (1904-1974), a contemporary of all the artists recognized as Neo-Romantics, from Sutherland and Nash to Minton and Craxton, should not have been counted among their number when interest in that group revived in the Eighties.
Brian Sewell The Standard Times, December 19th, 2013
Brian Sewell The Standard Times, December 19th, 2013