Sparrow
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... would he still be better than Picasso and that French photographer bloke?
If Stanley Spencer were alive today ...
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Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Everybody knows that with a Nikon D3 your photographs are automatically awesome. So, it follows that if he owned one, it is irrefutable that he would.
Whether he'd be more famous than either above-mentioned blokes, who knows...perhaps if he asked Gursky his agent's name!
Whether he'd be more famous than either above-mentioned blokes, who knows...perhaps if he asked Gursky his agent's name!
Gumby
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Gid
Well-known
Wasn't he in "Some Mothers do 'ave 'em"? Played by Michael Crawford.
Sparrow
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I was just encouraging folk to look on Google at the finest artist in ... the world
philipb
Established
It worked, I looked. I'd never heard of him but I have been to Cookham. I will look again, currently undecided if I like it or not.
Sparrow
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... Contrast Spencer's Sandham Memorial Chapel with Picasso's Guernica ...
rbiemer
Unabashed Amateur
Quite possibly. But if you include the under appreciated Earl Scheib, the entire pantheon changes...
Rob
Earl did some work for me a while ago.
Richard G
Veteran
A reflection of Spencer in a window was captured in an early Gursky. So yes.
nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
Sir Stanley died...???
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
Thanks for pointing him out, I didn't know him. I'm still undecided whether to consider him a great artist or a village joke, but I appreciate that you have to have a bit of personality to do things like The Artist and his Second Wife 1937 (Leg of Mutton Nude).
Sparrow
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The English Modernists get overshadowed by all the isms on the continent at the time, wrongly in my opinion.
His second wife Patricia was homosexual and spent their honeymoon with a girlfriend, so there is a certain tension in that particular painting
OurManInTangier
An Undesirable
British painters of that [approx] period are as overlooked and under regarded as British food. It's not all Bacon and chips.
rbiemer
Unabashed Amateur
So, I have spent some time looking at what I can find on line by Spencer and that flip remark was unkind at best, sorry.
"Better" than Picasso? Well, not for my taste but quite good, I think.
Rob
JohnL
Very confused
I doubt it - he'd be 120 years old!
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Ah! Also "fine-tuning" the "purpose" mid-thread, just like that other thread, eh? Niiice...
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