tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post4179780500258253855..comments2023-10-31T12:17:42.008+00:00Comments on Adventures in the Print Trade: The Brussels of Laure Malclès-MasereelNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-63317116596129307762010-07-13T10:56:11.879+01:002010-07-13T10:56:11.879+01:00I've never been to Brussels, but I feel I know...I've never been to Brussels, but I feel I know it quite well through these lithographs. But atmospheric and accomplished as they are, I don't think anyone need feel guilty for not knowing about this artist- she is fairly obscure even by the standards of this blog. She ought to have been better known, though. As Jane rightly says there is a flavour of Raoul Dufy about her work.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-42686167291636701232010-07-13T10:18:18.906+01:002010-07-13T10:18:18.906+01:00I didn't know about her either. What a wonderf...I didn't know about her either. What a wonderful sense of place, and of the architectural details (window surrounds, ironwork, etc) that go with it. And not a 'mean serif' in sight.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-81034731368556200012010-07-12T17:40:20.815+01:002010-07-12T17:40:20.815+01:00So glad you like these, Jane. I agree about the in...So glad you like these, Jane. I agree about the inclusion of the people, and I also admire the way she fractures her cityscapes into a series of planes to give a sense of the hectic life taking place within what could have been static views.<br /><br />I've just added in the body of the text a link to a website that gives a virtual tour of London's public lettering, which I meant to do in the first place.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-61215518646851983952010-07-12T15:46:38.763+01:002010-07-12T15:46:38.763+01:00It's embarassing to realize that Franz Maseree...It's embarassing to realize that Franz Masereel was married to someone so talented, but I didn't know about her. Sometimes her work makes me think of Raoul Dufy or Pierre Bonnard in the way the images convey pleasure in the inclusion of people in urban scenes, as opposed to artists who prefer their views static. The photographs of the Martini Tower suggest that a lot more than one building was razed in the neighborhood after 1973.Jane Librizzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03943563452168571716noreply@blogger.com