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I don't know if you are familiar with L S Lowry here is the Wikipedia page L.S Lowry
and also L.S Lowry - A Work Of Art
Each of his paintings are a study of the people as he knew them, your challenge is to pick a painting or a small scene and write about it.
L.S Lowry pictures
Any genre 10 to 30 words. All poets welcome. Last entries Wednesday 28th August Midnight and the third from last to post makes the next challenge.
 
UnderYourSpell said:
I don't know if you are familiar with L S Lowry here is the Wikipedia page L.S Lowry
and also L.S Lowry - A Work Of Art
Each of his paintings are a study of the people as he knew them, your challenge is to pick a painting or a small scene and write about it.
L.S Lowry pictures
Any genre 10 to 30 words. All poets welcome. Last entries Wednesday 28th August Midnight and the third from last to post makes the next challenge.
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sounds like an ekphrastik to me! Those are fun and for me work really well to get me into the artist's head for a new perspective on the work.
 
The Barron Knights were an English parody group and this was their take on L.S Lowry. Sung to the tune of the song above Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs.

With big rosettes and coloured scarves
They go to cheer their favourite stars
They all look forward to their Saturdays
There's one young lad walks down our street
With bovver boots upon his feet
And an aerosol can of paint he freely sprays
And he painted granddad's bike and next door's cats and dogs
He sprayed a couple on the corner of the street that were having a snog
He fell down on his can and his aerosol went 'bang'
And all they found was a flat cap and his clogs.
 
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Vision and Conjecture

I wish He'd seen Trafalgar Square, alit by a sea of orange Sikhs.
 
LOWRY_2598940b.jpg


Like we’re sitting close together
in the Tate, gawking at this picture
“Industrial Landscape” by L. S. Lorry
a major British artist in the last century
known for his paintings of industrial districts
of North West England and
Annie recognizes the Stockport Viaduct
although it’s an “imaginary landscape”
according to the guidebook but with
all those smokestacks belching into the leaden sky
you feel for the buglike people scurrying
about their business in the foreground.
Then Annie takes her hand from mine
and runs her fingers under my skirt
to discover I’m not wearing any panties
and we go to the loo to play.​
 
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Image copyright Lowry estate, sourced from
the Daily Mail, UK article on the secret works of the artist

Portrait Of A Nubile Doll

I paint you with your enamelled
nipples and nails done all in pink,
a manicured mannequin of ballerina
proportion. My school girl admirer;
-- a protegé of sorts.
You wanted to be with a master
and I showed you what that means

My doll in beribboned pigtail
and school girl cape and socks
decidedly an adult
with your breasts peeping
out your top. The jumper stiff
and tapered down to your narrow
hips and oh that rounded bottom
spanked beneath your flaring skirt.

Pull up your socks now my girl,
a play toy tidied up for mum.
She knows what we do on holidays
after all insists she come
along on our adventures but never
into the studio will she slip
because there's so much more
than paint on canvas that makes
a girl an artist.​

Well hell. I thought up to 30 lines... Let me see --

With enamelled nipples and pinkened nails
a protegé admirer,
decidedly adult with breasts peeped
out your top.
Oh! That rounded bottom spanked!
There's more than painted canvas
makes an artist​
 
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Yes I know it's only 8 lines but I think it's perfect just the way it is :)

Mills churning out hundreds
of little, pinched figures,
heads bent down against the sad,
damp afternoon sky,
portrayed in just five colours:
Vermilion, Prussian blue, Yellow ochre
Flake white and the Ivory black
of England's industrial past.
 
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