Il Camden Town Group nacque nel 1911 e si sviluppò in un momento intenso della storia inglese. Il nuovo secolo portò un'ondata di cambiamenti: a livello sociale con le incontenibili suffragette che richiedevano a gran voce il diritto di voto e la parità dei sessi; nel tessuto urbano con la modernizzazione dei trasporti che, nel giro di pochi anni, cambiò il volto di Londra. Carrozze e trasporti pubblici tirati horse disappeared rapidly (in 1914 there were only 1200 coconuts across London) first to give way to buses, cars and a symbol of the British capital, the subway.
The artists of the Camden Town Group and stood as witnesses to these changes and made the London theater of their paintings. The bright colors of a city 'on the move ( Piccadilly Circus, Charles Ginner, 1912), the dense and compact strokes closely recalls the influence of French post-impressionism. Van Gogh and the colors in the stretch, in the colors of the palette of Gauguin, Degas in the choice of unusual shots, evident in Gauguins and Connoisseurs at the Stattford Gallery Spencer Gore or The Naked and the Nude Walter Richard Sickert. In this painting from 1910, 'portrayed a young woman we see the naked body bent, as if it were committed in private as an everyday activity, but not the face. The cut chosen, the person who appears through a door left open as if by chance, give the viewer a strong sense of voyeurism.
This shows I enjoyed, but not passionate. If the resumption of post-impressionist style initially intrigued me, has come early to get tired. It seemed to me that their was a way to paint, but without adding nothing personal point of view of style. A little 'as if it were disguised as French English.
changing perspective, however, the works of the Camden Town Group instead become very interesting when you look at them as witnesses of an era. The views of London immortalized in their paintings show a different city so as to tighten the heart and return to a past that thought, though so far, is just around the corner.
Not to miss: In the Cinema Malcolm Drummond and the faces of Londoners in the dark, concentrated on the film.
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