<span style="font-style: italic;">"You lie in the heat of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> a summer haze </span></span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And turn it into a winters tale </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">You pull down the blinds </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">and shut out the sky </span>" -<span style="font-style: italic;"> Lloyd Cole</span>,<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> loveless</span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7132170453_cdbb0a1edb_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7132170453_cdbb0a1edb_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 589px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Harold Gilman </span></span>(1876‑1919) Study for 'Leeds Market' Date c.1913<br />@ <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/drawings-camden-town-group">Tate Britain, until May 7. </a><br /><br /></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />"Gilman's subject here is <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the isolation and loneliness of life in a big city</span></span>,<br />but, unlike the older artist, he suppresses all suggestion of a narrative."<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturereviews/3671131/The-Camden-Town-Group-painters-who-lit-up-the-streets.html"> (text from here)</a></span><br /><br /><br />"And do what you can to turn the whole thing grey ,<br />You're crying and pleading and you're hell just to be with<br />And you're everything that Ill ever need<br />So why do you say you love me when you dont?<br />You fall back into the English way<br />Of feeling only guilt cause you feel no pain<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">You sit and you stare at the empty page"</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(Lloyd Cole, loveless)</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span>"<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/search?f[]=im_vid_50:2190"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Camden Town Group</span></span> </a>was a London-based society of sixteen artists who exhibited together three times in 1911 and 1912. The group encompassed a diverse array of styles and objectives, and ultimately disbanded due to artistic differences. Despite the brief nature of their alliance, their association heralded the absorption of European Post-Impressionism into contemporary British art, and witnessed a new desire for art to feature subjects taken from modern life. To mark the centenary of the group’s formation, this display focuses on one of their shared concerns, the important role in artistic practice of drawing. "<br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------------------</span>

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