Saturday 25 February 2012

People in Chairs

David Hockney painted this rather formally posed image of his parents. His mother sitting upright looking attentively at the artist, his father engrossed in his paper. Another formal portrait is the one below by Lucian Freud, the sitter looking rather tense.
In Stanley Spencer's painting (below) the two people seem to be engulfed by the enormous chair, making them look like small children.
Bill Jacklin captures the moment a woman is about to get up from a chair - or is she about to sit down? Pictured below are a painting and a preliminary drawing of the same subject

Laura McCafferty uses fabric, print and stitch to recreate scenes of everyday life, such as sitting in the hairdressers.

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