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Euan Uglow: Controlled Passion - 50 Years of Painting

Richard Kendall

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Uglow was the antithesis of the media-courting Britart pack, a meticulous artist who never rushed. He would produce only a couple of pictures a year but The Wave, a crouching nude with arms outstretched, took even longer than usual. "I saw the model today and she said she'd posed for seven years," said Uglow in an interview reprinted in the catalogue. After Uglow's death one of his former models, whom he spotted at a party, described what it was like to pose in his south London studio. "If you twitched or scratched your nose, it drove poor Euan mad. It is possible he got some vicarious pleasure out of looking at naked young women all day but I somehow doubt it." You feel sorry for the woman who posed for The Diagonal, one of the largest and most startling pictures in the Kendal show and which features on the cover of the catalogue. The model was required to lie at full stretch across a folding chair, her bottom perched on the seat in such a way as to induce cramp and an uncomfortable ridge at the top of her legs. "The element of mischief in The Diagonal resides in the juxtaposition of one of Uglow's severest pictorial formats with one of his most shamelessly naked figures," says Richard Kendall in his catalogue essay. "This model does not coyly retreat or cover herself from prying eyes but relaxes openly and unhistorically." 'There's more force in controlled passion than exuberant passion' Euan Uglow ." As well as the nudes, the exhibition includes still lifes, portraits and some of the Christmas cards eagerly awaited by Uglow's friends. There is also a triple-angled view of a very feminine toothbrush. The show is complemented by an exhibition of drawings at the Browse and Darby gallery in Cork Street, London. "It's no good unless there's passion," Uglow said. "There's more force in controlled passion than exuberant passion."

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Release: July 31, 2003

ISBN 13: 9781902498133

Euan Uglow: Controlled Passion - 50 Years of Painting

Richard Kendall

0/5 ( ratings)

Uglow was the antithesis of the media-courting Britart pack, a meticulous artist who never rushed. He would produce only a couple of pictures a year but The Wave, a crouching nude with arms outstretched, took even longer than usual. "I saw the model today and she said she'd posed for seven years," said Uglow in an interview reprinted in the catalogue. After Uglow's death one of his former models, whom he spotted at a party, described what it was like to pose in his south London studio. "If you twitched or scratched your nose, it drove poor Euan mad. It is possible he got some vicarious pleasure out of looking at naked young women all day but I somehow doubt it." You feel sorry for the woman who posed for The Diagonal, one of the largest and most startling pictures in the Kendal show and which features on the cover of the catalogue. The model was required to lie at full stretch across a folding chair, her bottom perched on the seat in such a way as to induce cramp and an uncomfortable ridge at the top of her legs. "The element of mischief in The Diagonal resides in the juxtaposition of one of Uglow's severest pictorial formats with one of his most shamelessly naked figures," says Richard Kendall in his catalogue essay. "This model does not coyly retreat or cover herself from prying eyes but relaxes openly and unhistorically." 'There's more force in controlled passion than exuberant passion' Euan Uglow ." As well as the nudes, the exhibition includes still lifes, portraits and some of the Christmas cards eagerly awaited by Uglow's friends. There is also a triple-angled view of a very feminine toothbrush. The show is complemented by an exhibition of drawings at the Browse and Darby gallery in Cork Street, London. "It's no good unless there's passion," Uglow said. "There's more force in controlled passion than exuberant passion."

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Release: July 31, 2003

ISBN 13: 9781902498133

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