To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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A painfully beautiful vision without illusions
ANGUS REID ponders the psychology behind the arresting canvases of the working class painter Maurice Wade
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Maurice Wade: Silent Landscapes
The Andy McCluskey Collection
Trent Art, Newcastle
TWENTY-FIVE years before Morrissey, Maurice Wade contemplated the urban cityscape of Stoke on Trent as though every day were like Sunday.
These paintings, “silent and grey,” are the visual midwife of Morrissey’s reactionary miserablism. They render the city as though it were made entirely of ash, and entirely devoid of people. They are painfully beautiful.
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