Wyndham Lewis Portraits
Exhibition of portraits by Wyndham Lewis at the National Portrait Galley . I thought this was a really good exhibition with some super pictures but I did not warm to the artists. I must admit to a certain bias. As you may have realised fro the blog (which incidentally I’ve now managed to maintain for a year) I am a big Bloomsbury fan and Lewis fell out with them in 1914 hence I was probably predisposed to not like him! I found his rather self conscious use of self image for public use as shown by the first set of self portraits annoying. I got a real sense of someone who wanted to be someone but he didn’t really mind who and in what field. I also disliked his attach on people who had helped him in his book “The Apes of God” unpleasant. However that said this is an art show and I thought the pictures were great. There were some super drawings including one of Sacheverell Sitwell which gave a real insight into the sitters. However lets draw a veil over the hideous Virginia Woolf. My favo...