Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist
Interesting exhibition at the Imperial War Museum looking at the work of political artists
Peter Kennard.
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Like another show
I’ve written about tonight this exhibition reminded me of my university days in
the early 80s as many of the images came from magazines and newspapers of that
time. I’d never thought about the artists behind them before and had just
assumed they had been created by the papers themselves. The works from this
time were collages of images grouped to me a political point. These were
displayed in a great archive room with had original collages on the wall with
copies of the ways they had been used in a display cabinet in the middle and in
flip displays of posters.
Other rooms
concentrated on various projects. I loved one which combined “The Reading Room”
from 1997, which consisted of lecterns with smudged faces on the financial
pages of newspapers, with Newspapers from 1994, again using the financial pages
but this time with drawings of hands clawing at them and fraying the paper.
The images which
confronted you at the start were very powerful. Large, long canvases with torn
medal ribbons and the medal replaced by dead and wounded civilians, hooded
captives and military equipment.
Closes on 30 May
2016.
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