Produced by local historian + knowledge curator Dominique Tessier, Art Movements is a collection of workbooks aiming to encourage the study of Local Art Histories + initiate conversations on the nature of Northern Aesthetics. Contents: Activity_1: Fill the Gaps... Activity_2: Cherchez La Femme... Activity_3: Get the Picture! Activity_4: Homework...
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Activity_1: Fill the Gaps... Source: http://www.collectart.co.uk/artist/21-levy--emmanuel/ Emmanuel Levy was born in ____________, and studied at Manchester School of Art. He taught for many years at the School of Architecture there, and became art critic for the _______________ City and Evening News. He painted several scenes of Jewish subjects, as well as illustrations of Biblical episodes Source: http://www.wendyjlevy.com/artistpage.php?id=88 Emmanuel Levy was born in ___________ in 19__. He was to become one of Manchester’s best-known portrait painters during his long and WORKBOOK_2: EMMANUEL + URSULA LEVY
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respected career. He studied in Paris and at the ____________ School of Art in 1918, along with L.S. Lowry, under the instruction of Adolphe Valette. In 1928 Valette returned to France due to ill health and with his recommendation, Levy was to succeed him as Special Instructor in Life Drawing at Manchester University School of Architecture. Levy’s first exhibition was in 1924 at the ______________ City Gallery, and every aspect of his work, including life drawings, portraits and landscapes, was to be exhibited in this country and abroad for the following sixty years. Much of his work was topical, some of it symbolic, portraying the difficulties and anguish of the time. One of his most powerful, The Crucifixion, made in 1942 is a strong and emotional message about the tragedy of the holocaust. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Ben Uri Gallery in ____________. WORKBOOK_2: EMMANUEL + URSULA LEVY
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In 1929 he was supplementing his income by working as an art critic for the____________ City News and the ___________ Evening News. During the 1930’s and 1940’s his work was shown in London and Manchester with a retrospective exhibition at Salford City Art Gallery in 1948. He lectured at Manchester and _____________ College of Art during the 1950’s and 1960’s whilst continuing to receive commissions for portraits. He married Ursula Leo, one of his students, who continued to paint under her own name. In 1963 and 1979 he had solo exhibitions at the Tib Lane Gallery in Manchester. During the 1970’s he created a series of twelve large paintings entitled The Chessmen which symbolise the complexity and confusion of our time. The paintings are now in a private collection in WORKBOOK_2: EMMANUEL + URSULA LEVY
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Germany. His work is in the following public collections: National Portrait Gallery, London; The Art Galleries of Manchester, Salford, Preston, Stockport; The Tel Aviv and Ein Harod Museums. Emmanuel Levy died in 1986 aged 85.
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Activity_2: Chechez La Femme... What was the maiden name of Emmanuel Levy's wife? When + where was she born?
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Activity_3: Get the Picture! Can you find on the web the following paintings? a. Ursula In A Doorway b. Ursula Writing A Letter c. Ursula In A Red Scarf
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Activity_4: Homework Find out more about Ursula Leo-Levy
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