Gutted

Well it was about as bad as I expected - I really did miss a major event in the workshop, judging by the terrific prints that have been produced from Morgan Doyle's visit.
Ok just  get on with it and make more prints - get out the big acetate and get to work.

Before I go back to London I'll just show some pictures of the most recent woodcut and its provenance:

 

This was the b/w original

 

 

The print and the photo

 

 

The final print

 

Alright -today working on screens and plates and a lot of bitumen - pictures later

 

Back to London.

 

I left the British Museum and headed for the East End and the Whitechapel Gallery to see Hannah

 Höch - after all this was what it was all about:

 

 

The front of the Gallery - looks like a William Morris work.

 

Here are a selection of the surreptitious photos I took -  conditions were not exactly .....ideal almost from my sleeve!

 

From here on are less well - known and I was very surprised to find that she was making work into the 1980s - after 1945 ("12 years of horror" ie the Nazis and their treatment of her - 'degenerate art') her work became steadily less representational - "rather they serve  as a reinvestigation of abstraction"

 

The precision of her cut is extraordinary and the later work is quite beautiful - I didn't buy the catalogue as it was too heavy  but if I can get it I think I will.

 

HHs comment on her collages was that they should give a " clear aesthetically independent message."

 

Really, thinking back now  I am so glad I was there.

 

I will leave it there and resume tomorrow.