The 1930s
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| Originally published | 2015 |
| Authors | Stephen Feinstein |
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| ID | 2063379 |
About The 1930s
Dust storms ravaged the Great Plains, and the economy crashed, leaving thousands unemployed, homeless, and hungry. Nazism began its rise to power in Germany, and a hurricane devastated New England. The 1930s were a time of enormous devastation, but also of great progress. . . .
Russian memorials to victims of Stalin vanish
... For the past nine years, more than 700 plaques have been put up in Russia and elsewhere, commemorating the final residences of people who died in Stalin s purges in The 1930S...
Rock in a hard place: France-Spain border residents angry over road blocks
... Tens of thousands of Spaniards fled along this route to France during the Spanish Civil War in The 1930S, while many allied forces and Jews escaped in the other direction during the Nazi occupation...
Antisemitic graffiti in Paris worries French leaders
...Stars of David have been found graffitied on buildings in the Paris area, in acts that political leaders have said " recall The 1930S"...
Léopold Sédar Senghor: Senegal delays auction in France
... He was a distinguished poet who pioneered Négritude - an anti-colonialist movement that championed African cultures - alongside Martinican poet Aimé Cesairé while a student in Paris in The 1930S...
Kuda Bux: The Indian magician who charmed the West with his 'X-ray eyes'
... But what if his eyes were covered with lumps of dough, thick swabs of cotton and several layers of gauze - and he had multiple layers of bandages wound tightly around his head in such a way that only his nostrils were left exposed? Kuda Bux, who was born in Kashmir in 1905, was famous for performing this cycling feat on streets of England and Europe in The 1930S and 40s - something he claimed he was able to do because he could " see without eyes"...
Man, 94, finds father's beloved classic car on auction site
... Malcolm Stern, from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, chanced on The 1930S Talbot Barracq while trying to recreate a 3D model...
Israel Gaza: Antisemitic incidents 'triple in UK' since Hamas attack
... He compared the ideology of Hamas to that of the Nazis in The 1930S and 40s...
Keir Starmer: Labour leader hoping for keys to Downing Street
... With a general election rapidly approaching, he will be hoping that deliberate positioning will help his party win power again, four years after suffering its worst result since The 1930S...
The converging art careers of Henry Moore and Bill Brandt
A new Exhibition and book explore the intersecting careers of two renowned British artists of the 20Th Century : sculptors Henry Moore and photographer Bill Brandt .
The two artists, born in the space of Ten Years , were in the order of The British government in The 1930S ; Brandt , as a photojournalist, and Moore as A War artist.
you both have pictures of civilians, the refuge from The Blitz in the London Underground , which is seen during the second World War at the top.
A portrait of Henry Moore , 1948, by Bill Brandt (left), and a self-portrait of Bill Brandt , 1966 (on the right).The new Exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield - to examine how the two artists, The British landscape and its communities.
The Exhibition brings together More Than 200 works, including well-known sculptures and photographs, together with drawings, unprinted negatives, and photo-collages.
"Both artists had said a fascination and poetic sensibility for capturing The Spirit of the place", Simon Wallis, Director of Hepworth Wakefield .
"It is particularly poignant to the presentation of this Exhibition in West Yorkshire , where Henry Moore was born and grew up. "
Brandt and Moore met in 1942, when Brandt was commissioned, a portrait of Moore in his studio for a 10-page spread about The Artist in Lilliput magazine. The feature comparison of the two artists " - pictures of the lightning shelters.
Liverpool Street Extension, by Bill Brandt , 1940. Sleeping Shelterers: Two Women and a child, by Henry Moore , 1940."Both artists have developed a strikingly similar visual vocabulary of rootlessness, isolation, threat and vulnerability, the harbingers of pictures of larger terror made later in The War ," writes Courtney J Martin, the Director of the Yale Center for British Art, in a Foreword to the book by Bill Brandt | Henry Moore .
in the course of their career, they crossed over each other in the dominant creative medium. Moore used photography to showcase his work, and Brandt looked at the sculpture as a way of viewing the nature, the landscape and the human body.
Contact deduction details to screams Auguste Rodin 's man, 1877-78, photographed by Henry Moore , 1967.In their Early Work , Brandt and Moore were drawn to document Ordinary People , work and home.
Brandt highlighted the social deprivation in The 1930S , Depression-era Britain, with its impressive photographs of the impoverished mining communities, and families in the North of England .
Coal Miner's Bath, Chester-le-Street, Durham, Bill Brandt , 1937. Coal-miners ' houses without Windows to The Street , Bill Brandt , 1937. Northumbrian miner at his evening meal, the by Bill Brandt , 1937. Slag-Heap and miners ' cottages, Shotton, in the vicinity of Boldon Colliery, East Durham, Bill Brandt , 1937.Moore was one of eight children in a mining family in Castleford, a mining town in Yorkshire, a place he would later document the sketch to The War .
A common theme for Moore, the representation of family groups, both as sculptures and drawings, a theme, starting with his early drawings of families in shelters during The Blitz . was
In the 1950s, Moore had, in a series of works that uses groupings of figures, the drawings at his house.
Six studies for groups or families, from Henry Moore , 1948. Family group, by Henry Moore , in 1944. Sculpture and Red Rocks , Henry Moore , 1942.According to the urban subjects, Brandt , and Moore is shown during The War , The Artist , the later-to-nature sources of inspiration.
they were interested in rock formations, geological artefacts and megalithic sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury .
in fact, Moore let it be known that he mined sculptures with stone in the UK.
Avebury , Bill Brandt , 1963.The Exhibition Bill Brandt | Henry Moore is up to 31. The book is published by Yale University Press .
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Source of news: bbc.com