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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.
He has been creating the stikman figures that he is best known for since the 1990s. [2] [4] [5] These are usually made of yellow linoleum-like pavement marking tape that becomes embedded in the asphalt over time, [6] [7] The artist places the figures, most frequently on crosswalks, [8] without any direct indication of authorship.
Stick Men in Misinto, Italy, 2010. Building upon the Stick Man album, Levin joined up with Michael Bernier and Pat Mastelotto to form the group Stick Men. [10] The band released its first album Soup in 2010. [11] Bernier left the group shortly after the release of Soup and was replaced by touch guitarist Markus Reuter.
Stik, stylised as STIK, [1] is a British graffiti artist based in London. [2] [3] Born in 1979, with no formal art school training, Stik is known for painting large stick figures that are six-lines, and two-dot figures. [4]
His art was the subject of a 1997 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, curated by Elisabeth Sussman. [177] The Public Art Fund, in collaboration with the Estate of Keith Haring, organized a multi-site installation of his outdoor sculptures at Central Park's Doris C. Freedman Plaza and along the Park Avenue Malls. [178]
A tube man, also known as a skydancer, air dancer, inflatable man and originally called the Tall Boy, is an inflatable stick figure comprising sections of fabric tubing attached to a fan. As the fan blows air through it, the tubing moves in a dynamic dancing or flailing motion.
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Writing in the Manchester Guardian, his former tutor at the Salford School of Art, Bernard D. Taylor, criticised Lowry's paintings for being too dark. Taylor's criticism led Lowry to make greater use of light backgrounds such as that used in his 1930 reworking of Coming from the Mill .