Look alive! I got comics to draw!
illustration by Daniel Clowes :: scanned from Twentieth Century Eightball :: Fantagraphics Books :: 2002
Leonardo
Tonight i saw a preview of the National Gallery exhibition broadcast at Cinema City, Norwich.The exhibition included two versions of the Virgin of the Rocks and a full scale reproduction of The Last Supper. The entire exhibition space was spotlit only on the artworks and painted dark blue
George Shaw to Win
Realist Landscape painter George Shaw is shortlisted for the 2011 Turner Prize. His paintings are mostly of subjects within the Tile Hill area of Coventry. This traditional working class background is at odds with Shaw’s interest in poetry and Radio plays. The act of painting for Shaw is one of memory and the places that he depicts are decaying postwar industrial estates.
Shaw would not be the first realist painter to win the Turner prize, the first winner in 1984 Malcolm Morley has that destinction. In recent years the draughtsman Richard Wright also used a graphic medium in a shortlist dominated by sculpture.
