Today Chris and I took Cas (and ourselves as actually he wasn't interested) to see a new exhibition at the Lakeside Art Gallery. We saw 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock'. This is what the write up said:
. . features spectacular images of American society and culture made during a period of great social and political change from the early 1900s to 1960 and charts the emergence of a consciously American subject matter and artistic identity in the twentieth century.
I really loved it - it was my kind of art - proper and not a just few daubs of paint! This was my favorite lithograph, byLouis Lozowick, 'New York' 1925.
Then we went to see WINDOWS ON WAR SOVIET POSTERS 1943-1945. This was a great collection of Russian 2nd WW posters and propagada. Chris in particular enjoyed this collection. I really like the poster of the Russian War Heroine - any woman could be called one - as long as you had 10 or more children . . to re-populate russia!!!
I was a lovely day - but it was really cold and Cas was very grumpy.
