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LS Lowry review – matchstick men, or the broken denizens of a smog-filled hellscape?
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes With his heaps of mud, decaying sheds and chimney-filled skies, Lowry depicts northern England as a spirit-crushing dystopia While people queue at the British Museum to see the Battle of Hastings , this excellent survey of LS Lowry at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes takes you back to another, maybe more decisive part of our past – the age when Britain was the most industrialised society on Earth. Laurence Lowry was born in 1887 and worked for 41 years as a rent collector, a job that took him all over his native Greater Manchester observing its people and places. He had the city’s grime and grind in his soul. The MK wants to show him as a fully rounded artist, to uncover the Lowry with a song in his heart, but it’s the misery of his urban hell that holds and harrows you. In his 1930 painting Coming from the Mill it’s the end of the shift and scores of people emer
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MK Gallery, Milton Keynes With his heaps of mud, decaying sheds and chimney-filled skies, Lowry depicts northern England as a spirit-crushing dystopia While people queue at the British Museum to see the Battle of Hastings , this excellent survey of LS Lowry at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes takes you back to another, maybe more decisive part of our past – the age when Britain was the most industrialised society on Earth. Laurence Lowry was born in 1887 and worked for 41 years as a rent collector, a job that took him all over his native Greater Manchester observing its people and places. He had the city’s grime and grind in his soul. The MK wants to show him as a fully rounded artist, to uncover the Lowry with a song in his heart, but it’s the misery of his urban hell that holds and harrows you. In his 1930 painting Coming from the Mill it’s the end of the shift and scores of people emer
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According to The Guardian’s source item, LS Lowry review – matchstick men, or the broken denizens of a smog-filled hellscape?, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes With his heaps of mud, decaying sheds and chimney-filled skies, Lowry depicts northern England as a spirit-crushing dystopia While people queue at the British Museum to see the Battle of Hastings , this excellent survey of LS Lowry at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes takes you back to another, maybe more decisive part of our past – the age when Britain was the most industrialised society on Earth. Laurence Lowry was born in 1887 and worked for 41 years as a rent collector, a job that took him all over his native Greater Manchester observing its people and places. He had the city’s grime and grind in his soul. The MK wants to show him as a fully rounded artist, to uncover the Lowry with a song in his heart, but it’s the misery of his urban hell that holds and harrows you. In his 1930 painting Coming from the Mill it’s the end of the shift and scores of people emer
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