Drawing and Painting the Landscape by Philip Tyler

Author:Philip Tyler
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785003257
Publisher: Crowood

This is a study of a drawing by John Cozens, who produced abstract blot drawings that suggested and evoked the idea of imaginary landscapes.

Patrick Symons’s drawings can be incredibly enlightening, a copse of trees has superimposed upon it the underlying geometric configurations that he found within that space. They are compelling drawings because we see someone making sense of the landscape. Symons was taught at Camberwell by some of the Euston Road painters. The group was formed in 1938 by artists who either taught or were teaching at the Euston Road School of Drawing and Painting: William Coldstream, Rodrigo Moynihan, Claude Rogers, Lawrence Gowing and Graham Bell. These artists reacted against modernism and some of the more avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. Instead, they were obsessed by the idea of pinning reality down as they saw it. Coldstream himself was involved in the mass observation movement (1937–1950s) and at one point was a documentary film maker.

In Hickbush with Water Pump, there are a series of three drawings, which shows an equally casual approach to shading, blocking in areas of the drawing with a fairly uniform grey tone. The marks do not really describe a sense of form, instead, suggest a flat shape and this is certainly seen in George’s painting too.

A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK GEORGE

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