3 February
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23 April 2006
Section
1: Defining DocumentaryJulian Trevelyan 1910-1988
The Potteries circa 1938
© Estate of the Artist
After his time in Bolton working for Mass-Observation, Trevelyan returned home via the Potteries. He described it as 'a landscape full of drama and pathos...Human beings seemed to creep about almost apologetically among the manmade disasters.' Trevelyan, a British Surrealist, eschewed the realism favoured by Coldstream and Bell, preferring a more expressive approach to depicting reality. This painting, with its heavy distortions of form and painterly brushwork, typifies Trevelyan's non-naturalistic style.
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