Houses
Michael Andrews (Norwich 1928 – 1995)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1974 - 1976
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
200 x 250 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769781
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Houses by Michael Andrews (Norwich 1928 – 1995), 1974-1976.
Full description
Oil painting on canvas, Houses by Michael Andrews (Norwich 1928 – 1995), 1974-1976. Andrews was a painter who valued observation and systematic drawing, whatever his subject matter. He joined the London Group in 1962, when he became known for painting large party scenes that epitomised the ‘swinging Sixties’, incorporating images from the media, fashion, pop music and cinema. This work is far more quiet, and much more to the taste of Derek Hill. It is a prosaic view of grey houses, drawn with deliberately skewed perspective. This visual disruption makes us study these suburban semis all the more. The TV aerial stands silhouetted against the sky, its delicate fingers reaching out into the emptiness.
Provenance
Presented by Derek Hill (1916 - 2000) through The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Makers and roles
Michael Andrews (Norwich 1928 – 1995), artist