1956
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.2 cm
Private Collection, UK
Umbrellas | Hats View through a Window or Door Humour / Satire Works | 1950 to 1959 Nude Figures All Works in RA Summer Exhibitions 1937 to 1993 Interiors Gatherings | Crowds | Festivities Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist The Art of Richard Eurich Still Life within a Scene
Recto: Signed lower right: R. Eurich; undated
The painting offers up to ridicule a microcosm of fashionable London art society, with all its machinations. These are critics "ready to plug to the hilt, to trumpet, to expound, any movement in painting...which was obviously hurrying along a path as opposite as possible from what had appealed to civilised man through the ages" (Wyndham Lewis, 'The Demon of Progress in the Arts' (London 1954) p.53). Behind the savage treatment lies an honest and intensely felt despondency. In the art world Eurich knew, critical success is achieved through formal innovation at the expense of that combination of tradition and individual …
The painting offers up to ridicule a microcosm of fashionable London art society, with all its machinations. These are critics "ready to plug to the hilt, to trumpet, to expound, any movement in painting...which was obviously hurrying along a path as opposite as possible from what had appealed to civilised man through the ages" (Wyndham Lewis, 'The Demon of Progress in the Arts' (London 1954) p.53). Behind the savage treatment lies an honest and intensely felt despondency. In the art world Eurich knew, critical success is achieved through formal innovation at the expense of that combination of tradition and individual talent which T.S.Eliot had championed and Eurich steadfastly refused to abandon.
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