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Alphabetical Art From Zorn to Anguissola, NWR’s Culture Vultures whiled away the winter months by working their way through an alphabet of artists, writes Jenny Lee of Horsham NWR. In our NWR Culture Vultures Facebook forum, from September last year until the end of March, NWR members took part in a weekly posting of a work by an artist and a little bit of information about it. We worked in reverse alphabetical order, starting with Z and ending with A. It introduced me to not only many hitherto unknown painters, but also book illustrators, sculptors, ceramicists, wood engravers, glass and jewellery makers, architects, etchers, lithographers, caricaturists and print makers. If my adding up is correct, 192 photos were posted. Letter R attracted The Rs have it – Lovers, the most artists: 13. There were 50 ink and watercolour illustration by Arthur female artists, 141 male and one of unknown sex. The oldest was Greek Rackham vase painter Xenophantos, from c380 BCE, and after that we covered all the centuries from the 14th to the 21st! Artists came from 28 different countries – seven were of unknown origin – and most, 51, were English. The French came in second with 26. It has been such a great pleasure researching and reading about other members’ choices. If you wish to join the forum you will be made most welcome. The project inspired this little ditty.
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Fauvist, Expressionist
Bauhaus, Brutalism
This will be a long list!
Also Orientalism
Cubist, Surrealist
Naïve, Conceptual
Pre- and Post-Impressionist
My word, we’re going well!
Modernist, Romanticist
Action painting, Plein air
Pre-Raphaelite and Classicist
Baroque included to be fair
Realist, Mannerist
Contemporary, Descriptive
Sturm und Drang, if you insist!
Luminist, Figurative
Pop Art, Op Art
Folk Art, Dutch Golden Age
Still more genres to impart!
Art that provokes outrage
Pointillism, Japonisme
Environmental art
Synthetism, Tonalism
That can blow your mind apart.
Top: Les demoiselles Schwartz by Anders Zorn
Punk Art, Symbolism
Above: Self-portrait at an Easel by Sofonisba Anguissola
While we’re at it, Dadaism Art Nouveau, Rococo Not forgetting Art Deco
Looking at the list above Tell me now, what’s not to love?
NWR Magazine Summer 2021
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