Tuesday 21st October - Photography contd.

This lesson was spent further researching, and I went to look for more art or photography that I could relate to. I began thinking about aspects of my life that were important to me, such as where I lived and what I liked doing, and realised a lot of the way I am comes from the urban environment I grew up in, surrounded by crowds of different people. Though the people in his paintings are not nearly as diverse as the people I grew up around, L.S. Lowry's crowded urban paintings remind me of life growing up in London and the hustle and bustle of the city's busy inhabitants. 

One of L. S. Lowry's iconic matchstick men paintings. The crowded train station is a scene all too familiar to me, and the stylised aesthetic of these paintings is appealing to me in that it represents the simplistic, undetailed way most people view other commuters and passers-by day to day in the city.