LS Lowry

LS Lowry self portrait

Laurence Stephen Lowry (Nov 1st 1887 -23rd Feb 1976 )Salford Manchester .

Lowry's painting s depict working class characters ,industrial buildings. They seem to depict disappointment and a wearied resignation.
Desolation defilement of the landscape is depicted at the end of the industrial revoultion period. Dystopia and visions of land waste smokey atmospheres and very dark imagery are captured in his paintings.

The scenes appear non political and the industrial Manchester is capture with it's canals warehouses and derelict buildings have an almost dickension{Oliver Twist} aura about them.

He used a scratch nail technique and his work typified working class life in the 1930s. Loneliness and down and out characters also seem prominent in some of his paintings.A lot of his paintings seem to use a white background , Reds Blues, Yellows {Ocre}Black and greys ,giving the pictures the feeling of a cold stark enviroment and harsh living conditions in Manchester at the time.

The Pond