2006-09-24 10:19:32 · 6 answers · asked by Bill L 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
What are you talking about? Everyone looks like that in Salford!
2006-09-24 10:22:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
L S Lowry was a brilliant artist and I was lucky enough to know him. He didn't only paint the matchstalk characters but they were his most famous and most sought after, this being the reason that he stuck so much to that particular style. He used to come into the bank where I worked and as he didn't like 'people' very much used to stay at the back of the banking hall until the counter was clear and he could be served. Whilst he waited he often used to doodle on the blotting paper with an old dip in pen. After he left I used to change the blotting paper and throw it away. I must have disposed of dozens of Lowry sketches in that way. One year he gave my manager a painting of Salford Docks. It showed a couple of ships in the fog and was entirely made up of greys greens, blacks and dark colours except for a very small red and white flag on the top of the mast. My manager retired in 1971 and the painting went with him.
If ever you visit Swinton go up Station Road and you'll see his old house with a Blue Plaque on it.
2006-09-24 11:02:09 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He could. If you look at one of his paintings, and can recognise people in it, then he's conveyed something to you.
We have photos for perfect pictures of people, paintings should show us something else a bit more interesting.
2006-09-24 10:25:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its like asking why Michael Angelo could not paint a shop interior
2006-09-24 12:42:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could,but what you are referring to was just his style,and very different,i didn't like it at first but it grew on me
2006-09-24 10:26:11 · answer #5 · answered by amber_xx66 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could you do better?
2006-09-24 10:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by «Dave» 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋