A sunny day in the Lido in Brockwell Park
A crop taken from one of my Lido Paintings in Oils on Canvas of bathers on a sunny day in the Lido in Brockwell Park. My actual visits to the Lido set in a beautiful wooded section of the Park was painted from memories of the long ago and the painting itself was undertaken at least twenty years back. The painting is one of a series of bathers in a public baths that I painted in response to the painting of the Mudbath by David Bomberg now in the Tate Gallery in London. David’s now famous painting was itself painted just before the beginning of the First World War War in 1914. It was a time when young artists in London were attempting to respond to the wave of Modern Art itaking place in Paris in those early days of the 20th Century. David was in the British Army who fought on the Western Front and came home a shattered man no longer able to paint in the modern style. After a decade or so he did resume what was seen to be avant guard art but not in the geometric style. I later attended his drawing classes at the Borough Polytechnic in London.
A sunny day in the Lido in Brockwell Park
A crop taken from one of my Lido Paintings in Oils on Canvas of bathers on a sunny day in the Lido in Brockwell Park. My actual visits to the Lido set in a beautiful wooded section of the Park was painted from memories of the long ago and the painting itself was undertaken at least twenty years back. The painting is one of a series of bathers in a public baths that I painted in response to the painting of the Mudbath by David Bomberg now in the Tate Gallery in London. David’s now famous painting was itself painted just before the beginning of the First World War War in 1914. It was a time when young artists in London were attempting to respond to the wave of Modern Art itaking place in Paris in those early days of the 20th Century. David was in the British Army who fought on the Western Front and came home a shattered man no longer able to paint in the modern style. After a decade or so he did resume what was seen to be avant guard art but not in the geometric style. I later attended his drawing classes at the Borough Polytechnic in London.