My filmpoem is a response to how the progressive movement for social housing in the post-war period was let go under Thatcher, so it's great to see the term 'social housing' being reclaimed by Shelter 'Under the Cranes' is screening on 9 June Hackney Picturehouse 👇picturehouses.com/movie-details/…

Just learned of the art of George Shaw c/o Stuart Maconie’s The Full English.

Absolute peak Grim Art and very, very wonderful.

Alfred Ainslie O'Brien (1912-1988)
Grim Art

Street as Fine Art

Belfast
2019

Hans Brass, Berliner Straßenszene mit Straßenbahn (Am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße). 1951. #Berlin

Good Day!
Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting by Thomas Gainsborough c.1747
Oil on Canvas
(Tate)
'Tis a most delightful country for a landscape painter. I fancy I see Gainsborough in every hedge and hollow tree.' John Constable

'Reflection of the Thames.' (1917) Emile Claus spent the years of WW1 in London in exile. He rented a studio on Norfolk Street overlooking London Bridge, where he would paint his atmospheric views of the Thames, often with its inpenetrable mist and rain.

Josh Sinn •
Darkness on the Edge of Town, 2012

'Houses of Parliament at Night.' In 1906, Andre Derain's dealer, Ambroise Vollard, sent him to London with the audacious plan of producing a series of views to rival the ones Monet had painted from his room at the Savoy and St Thomas' Hospital - the plan was hatched after seeing

Emergence (oil/acrylic on canvas, 2022)

'Kensington Gardens' (1923) by Arthur Temple Felix Clay

(Kensington Central Library)

Doreen Fletcher's new paintings
spitalfieldslife.com/2024/05/31/dor…

'The Ship Inn, Mousehole.' (1930) Most of Christopher Wood's best pictures,from 1929 and 1930, contained seaside and harbour themes; boats, fishermen, bathers: in the main executed in Cornwall. In this work, he's left the face of a man leaning against the inn's wall, blank.

“The more people I meet, the more I love my dog.” Mark Twain 🐕 ❤️

Man Walking Dog by Norman Cornish (1919-2014)

'Green Park' (1947) by Robert A. Buhler

(Royal Academy of Arts)

'London from Buckingham Palace' (1934) by Algernon Newton

(Private collection)

'Have not got the sack yet, so am living in hopes of lasting the week out.'
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Postmark: 4 May 1915

'Here I am for the second time in England, tolerating the English with all their weird habits and their stupid language.'
[Translated from original Italian]
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Postmark: 27 July 1983

'Waiting.' (1923) A seminal figure in printmaking of the 1920s and 1930s, Martin Lewis is regarded as one of the finest practitioners of the 20thC and was mentor to a young Edward Hopper.

In Lewis's works, the figures in his world initiate the emotion, though they’re no more

Figures in the city no. 204
Millwall Inner Dock, London, 2012
Silver gelatin print
#London #city #CanaryWharf #streetphotography #woman #men #figures #blackandwhitephoto #monochrome #analogue #film #bnw #urbanlandscape #city scape #towers #apartments #trees #shadows #sunlight