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Painting Childhood (Paperback)
Emily Knight, Amy Orrock, Martin Postle, Jill Seaton
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Children have always fascinated artists and Painting Childhood will
explore some of the most iconic paintings of children produced over
the past 500 years. Featuring stunning portraits, amusing genre
scenes and touching 'fancy pictures', the book will examine both
the creative process and the specifi c challenges posed by painting
children: from how to capture the fleeting moments of youth to how
to encourage young subjects to sit still. Accompanying the
exhibitions Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud and Childhood
Now, the book will discuss a wealth of masterpieces from British
collections by artists including Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthony
van Dyck, Jan Steen, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, William Hogarth,
Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Johan Zoff any and John
Everett Millais. These iconic paintings will be considered
alongside the preparatory sketches that were made for them and the
works that were made after them in an exploration of the creative
process and the artistic 'conversations' that occurred throughout
the centuries. Painting Childhood will also explore 'intimate
portraits' - artist's portrayals of their own children. Paintings,
sketches and sculptures by Stanley Spencer, Louise Bourgeois, Jacob
Epstein and Lucian Freud, among others, present highly personal
insights into the place of family within an artist's life, and the
ongoing dialogue between biography and creativity. This theme
extends to the present day, and the work of three contemporary
figurative painters - Chantal Joffe, Mark Fairnington and Matthew
Krishanu. Drawn to children as subjects, each of these London-based
artists depict childhood in very diff erent ways. Together, they
provide fresh perspectives on what constitutes childhood today and
reaffirm the place of painting as a diverse and powerful artistic
practice.
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