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Harry Slagg said:
Followed by Jeff Whitley's analysis of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
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Laurie’s Game: L.S. Lowry and Manchester City
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Followed by Jeff Whitley's analysis of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
MCC
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Excellent read. Well done.
nmc
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Ric said:halfcenturyup said:Good god! Bluemoon as an educational forum. Who would have thought it.
This is the first in a series of tenuously City related articles aimed at enlightening some of the philistines on here. Next week it's Barry Conlon and the Theory of Relativity.
Relatively speaking we all have an opinion on Barry Conlon - I doubt any of us will win a Nobel prize mind.
WyongBlue
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Great article, visited the the Lowry in 2008, when I was over there on hols from Oz, me and my wife spent an amazing morning looking at his collection there..............
TCIB
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Best School trip as a kid that was, the old street with the penny farthing was amazing to an 8yo.
His pics show what i think is a good sense of a solid community (a good start to that utopia we all want) and local northen pride stuff. I say stuff because it is hard to explain how they make me feel, warm and content maybe ? i am not sure but they are defo mixed in with it.
I should add i like war films beer and steak, not art as it were, but even as a kid his pics fascinated me.
He taught me to respect art more than every sodding art lesson, or speach or talk by some arty critic type with a broom stick up their arse.
So i do not consider myself very cultured with art i know i like him and how his stuff gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
His pics show what i think is a good sense of a solid community (a good start to that utopia we all want) and local northen pride stuff. I say stuff because it is hard to explain how they make me feel, warm and content maybe ? i am not sure but they are defo mixed in with it.
I should add i like war films beer and steak, not art as it were, but even as a kid his pics fascinated me.
He taught me to respect art more than every sodding art lesson, or speach or talk by some arty critic type with a broom stick up their arse.
So i do not consider myself very cultured with art i know i like him and how his stuff gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
LongsightM13
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Haha, well, Hyde Road may have been even closer. As a kid, before I was allowed to go to the match on my own, we could hear both the cheers from Maine Road when we scored on a Saturday afternoon and also the noise from the bikes at Belle Vue Speedway on a Saturday evening.urmston said:LongsightM13 said:Fantastic article Chris.
I went to see Going To The Match when the PFA loaned its art collection to Manchester Art Gallery about five years ago, and spent an hour just staring at it, picking out tiny details in the crowd scene.
I'm sure I have read and heard more than once that this painting was based on a City away game at Burnden Park?
Lowry spent most of his childhood in Longsight and so would have been within easy walking distance of Maine Road
Except that Maine Road wasn't built until 1923 when Lowry was 36. Perhaps he strolled to Hyde Road.
Gary James
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Good piece on Lowry. Nice to read.
Lowry has always fascinated me as well. As the piece says he lived in Mottram while I was living in Hattersley and we used to stare at his house every time we passed it and I remember seeing him a couple of times when I was about 7 or 8 (incidentally, I also married at Mottram Church and my mum took me to see Mike Summerbee's wedding in my pram - obviously I can't remember that!).
A few facts about Lowry:
- yes he was a Blue. He often talked about it and Harold Riley did talk about his passion for City (and Riley's passion for Utd).
- The Bribe scandal - Utd weren't underhand really - City wanted the players to go to poor relations Utd so that they'd stay in Manchester and we'd still see them. If Lowry was upset about it, he was probably upset at the unjust bans, not Utd's role in it (City encouraged the players to join Utd in preference to Everton and other clubs).
- Sheff Utd painting - I've always thought the guy was a programme seller. Illegal gambling wouldn't really have been tolerated within the stadium (though I guess that could be why the man was included, but it sits uncomfortably with me - programme seller seems much more appropriate).
- Going To The Match - there is some anecdotal evidence that Lowry once said that he based the scene on his memory of Burnden Park's record crowd game in the 30s which was, of course, Bolton V City. There are sketches on display at the Lowry of earlier incarnations of the picture but all are from the 50s, so it's hard to say conclusively. But as Lowry was a Blue he may have gone to the match in 1933 - FA Cup tie almost 70k - and remembered or sketch the general scene for later use.
- Going To The Match will be on display at the National Football Museum for a period when it opens and there are Lowry themed exhibits.
Lowry has always fascinated me as well. As the piece says he lived in Mottram while I was living in Hattersley and we used to stare at his house every time we passed it and I remember seeing him a couple of times when I was about 7 or 8 (incidentally, I also married at Mottram Church and my mum took me to see Mike Summerbee's wedding in my pram - obviously I can't remember that!).
A few facts about Lowry:
- yes he was a Blue. He often talked about it and Harold Riley did talk about his passion for City (and Riley's passion for Utd).
- The Bribe scandal - Utd weren't underhand really - City wanted the players to go to poor relations Utd so that they'd stay in Manchester and we'd still see them. If Lowry was upset about it, he was probably upset at the unjust bans, not Utd's role in it (City encouraged the players to join Utd in preference to Everton and other clubs).
- Sheff Utd painting - I've always thought the guy was a programme seller. Illegal gambling wouldn't really have been tolerated within the stadium (though I guess that could be why the man was included, but it sits uncomfortably with me - programme seller seems much more appropriate).
- Going To The Match - there is some anecdotal evidence that Lowry once said that he based the scene on his memory of Burnden Park's record crowd game in the 30s which was, of course, Bolton V City. There are sketches on display at the Lowry of earlier incarnations of the picture but all are from the 50s, so it's hard to say conclusively. But as Lowry was a Blue he may have gone to the match in 1933 - FA Cup tie almost 70k - and remembered or sketch the general scene for later use.
- Going To The Match will be on display at the National Football Museum for a period when it opens and there are Lowry themed exhibits.
LongsightM13
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That's what I had heard on more than one occasion, Gary, that it was a cup tie between Bolton and City.Gary James said:Good piece on Lowry. Nice to read.
Lowry has always fascinated me as well. As the piece says he lived in Mottram while I was living in Hattersley and we used to stare at his house every time we passed it and I remember seeing him a couple of times when I was about 7 or 8 (incidentally, I also married at Mottram Church and my mum took me to see Mike Summerbee's wedding in my pram - obviously I can't remember that!).
A few facts about Lowry:
- yes he was a Blue. He often talked about it and Harold Riley did talk about his passion for City (and Riley's passion for Utd).
- The Bribe scandal - Utd weren't underhand really - City wanted the players to go to poor relations Utd so that they'd stay in Manchester and we'd still see them. If Lowry was upset about it, he was probably upset at the unjust bans, not Utd's role in it (City encouraged the players to join Utd in preference to Everton and other clubs).
- Sheff Utd painting - I've always thought the guy was a programme seller. Illegal gambling wouldn't really have been tolerated within the stadium (though I guess that could be why the man was included, but it sits uncomfortably with me - programme seller seems much more appropriate).
- Going To The Match - there is some anecdotal evidence that Lowry once said that he based the scene on his memory of Burnden Park's record crowd game in the 30s which was, of course, Bolton V City. There are sketches on display at the Lowry of earlier incarnations of the picture but all are from the 50s, so it's hard to say conclusively. But as Lowry was a Blue he may have gone to the match in 1933 - FA Cup tie almost 70k - and remembered or sketch the general scene for later use.
- Going To The Match will be on display at the National Football Museum for a period when it opens and there are Lowry themed exhibits.
On the links between City & art, hasn't that well-known mosaic artist from Manchester (whose name escapes me) done some City-themed pieces?
Edit: Mark Kennedy.
Here's his website, click "gallery" then "sport". Moasics of the old City badge, a brilliant Colin Bell, Stuart Pearce, Anelka and his former City namesake
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.markkennedy.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.markkennedy.co.uk/</a>