25 February 2011

20th century drawings

At the British Museum until 25 April. A free show with good labelling and famous names, as well as some not so well known. As you can see I was drawn to Georg Grosz's "fat banker", and needed an aide-memoire for Magritte's "Leaf" - a tree/brick wall conflation, with a ball to the left and a curtain (minus window) to the right. Hmm.
Other memorable drawings by Picasso, Magritte, Beckmann, etc, as well as Kazuo Nakamura, , William Anastasi, Laurence Weiner, Edda Renouf (so subtle and beautiful), Judy Pfaff, Franz Ackermann, Olav Christopher Jenssen ...

David Milne's "Dreamland Tower" -
Kurt Sonderborg - the one in the BM is similarly "musical" -
William Anastasi (who would draw in the New York subway with both hands at once) -
Mosche Kupfermann would draw on both sides of the paper, and fold the paper so that marks were transferred -
That's enough for now - I'll be going back for a second look.

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