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Description: | Tom Phillips was fascinated by the vast quantity of postcards to be found in souvenir shops. These views of Wolverhampton were copied from a detail of a postcard of the Art Gallery, one completed in the town itself, where Phillips taught, the other in his London studio. He was interested in the way in which two identical scenes might vary according to mood, atmosphere, studio lighting and so on. The most striking difference is in the bands of colour surrounding the picture. These echo the colours often found in cheap colour printing. Tom Phillips has exhibited in two solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery in 1971 and 1976.
Oil painting showing two identical street scenes of Lichfield Street, outside Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Gardens. Each image is surrounded by striking bands of colour with text underneath. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Tom Philips | Subjects: | Black Country Fine arts Landscape Oil painting Oil Paintings Wolverhampton Art collections | Temporal: | 1970
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | PHILLIPS; Tom (1937 -) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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