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| A celebration |
Last week after a Portuguese lunch I visited the rather splendid
Whitechapel Gallery to see a pretty extensive retrospective of (Sir) Eduardo Paolozzi the Scottish/Italian artist who is credited by some as
inventing 'Pop Art' before both Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol (sad to see that
he doesn't get mentioned here).
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| Fascinated by a 1950s version of robots |
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| And of space type things too |
There was work that was about printing and some that poked fun at Art and work that was just fun.
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| Yes this is before YBAs and it's 100% F*rt |
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| And there are prints too |
If you want to find out more about Sir Eduardo two radio programmes I liked are when Carluccio (of restaurant fame chose him as a)
Great lives and a visit to
Desert Island Discs.
All around London (here's one at
Kew Gardens) you can see works by Paolozzi and we even saw one when we were in Hull at the weekend.
Paolozzi (in public) is at his best perhaps with the mosaics at
Tottenham Court Road Underground station.
The other place (the first I suppose) that I saw Paolozzi's work and design in the inner booklet of the LP
Red Rose Speedway (by Paul McCartney and Wings) - it reflects the ongoing engagement by
McCartney with the Art World .
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| We're talking about £77.26 |
Doors
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Coldershaw Road
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Coldershaws are a bit thin on the ground in terms of where the name came from or what it means -
here's a family record though.
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| Here's a door I'd like to see hung the other way |
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