Maxwell Armfield

[porphyry]

Never heard of him nor his movement (the Birmingham group were had actually liks to the Pre-Raphaelites, seemingly) before today.





This was painted in 1946.

Comments

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

My goodness, what an eccentric he must have been. I only know him very vaguely, I think just from pictures from his in the Tate; his attitude to the effects of industrialization is clear enough from this portrait of a factory-owner there:

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Actually he doesn't strike me as an eccentric at all, since his views and tates seem to agree with mine. I consider Picasso the eccentirc. But then perhaps this begins to speak to another topic.

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

I have had a look around to see what I can find of him on the internet, and I too rather sympathize with his tastes and views; but to paint that pre-Raphaelite lady in front of that background in 1946 does strike me as being eccentric nonetheless. Not that I regard eccentricity as necessarily being anything bad.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

From what I understand the subject was taken from life at a recital he attended in New York.

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

Well, they do say that life is stranger than fiction.