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Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (/ ˈ l aʊ r i / LAO-ree; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity.
The human figures are painted in Lowry's characteristic style of "matchstick figures", filing out through the factory gates in large numbers. In the foreground, a horse-drawn carriage and a handcart are visible on the street in front of a row of terraced houses , and large cotton mill buildings and factory chimneys loom in the background, above ...
A painting by L. S. Lowry including his characteristic "matchstick men".. The song reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, number eight in Canada, and number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming their only top-40 single in the United States.
Due to her use of "matchstick men"/stick-figures, Chrisp's work was sometimes compared to that of L. S. Lowry, but she rejected the comparison: "Some people think that I paint like L.S. Lowry but whereas his colours are muted and grey, mine are gay and happy." [1] She signed her work "E. M. Chrisp" and "Emily". [1]
Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he may be the most ambitious. Horvat thinks nothing of putting 210,000 matchsticks to use to create a ...
"Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" was a tribute to the artist L. S. Lowry, who had died in February 1976. The chorus makes reference to Lowry's style of painting human figures, which was similar to stick figure drawings (a "matchstalk" is a matchstick in the Salford dialect). [6]
Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry. Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England. The painting now hangs in the Imperial War Museum North. [1]
Going to the Match is the title of a number of paintings by British painter L. S. Lowry, depicting crowds of spectators walking towards a sports ground.Lowry's best known Going to the Match painting is his 1953 painting of football fans heading towards Burnden Park, the then home of Bolton Wanderers Football Club. [1]