Just get a sketchbook out: top UK artists lament decline of drawing classes
Skill regarded as vital by Peter Blake, David Hockney and others has today been eclipsed by conceptual art
British artist Sir Peter Blake says he tried to get Royal Academy Schools students to draw, without success. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images
British artist Sir Peter Blake says he tried to get Royal Academy Schools students to draw, without success. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images
Sun 9 May 2021 05.30 EDT
The demise of drawing in some of Britain’s most prestigious art schools has been lamented by leading artists. Their comments come as Sir Peter Blake, who is preparing for a new exhibition, and David Hockney recall the inspiration of drawing classes they attended at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in the 1950s.
Scholar Peter Stanfield Brings ‘Hate’ to the Who’s Pop Art Period
Peter Stanfield’s ‘A Band With Built-In Hate’ highlights redundancy, aggression, obsolescence, and ambiguity in Townshend’s lyrical stance and the Who’s performing methods.
A Band With Built-In Hate: The Who From Pop Art to Punk
Peter Stanfield
March 2021
What’s left that’s new about the Who? While perennially runner-up to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in fan acclaim and press coverage, their career certainly receives its share of attention, as both Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend’s autobiographies [
Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite, 2018] added to the record.
We can probably expect fewer shockeroos both in terms of omitting records that met all the usual criteria and still weren’t nominated and including records that had barely registered.
This past year, The Weeknd’s failure to receive a single nomination made the most headlines, but nearly as surprising was Harry Styles’ failure to land a nomination in any of the Big Three categories: album, record and song of the year.
For most of Grammy history, The Weeknd and Styles would have been automatic Grammy nominees in the top categories not just because they had huge commercial success, but also because they made great records that represented a meaningful advance in their careers. They did everything right, and still didn’t get nominated (in the top categories, in Styles’ case).
His breakthrough album and all-time blockbuster, 1976 s
Frampton Comes Alive!, made him a household name, but he was hardly a new artist. Frampton had already spent a number of years playing in various bands, as well as releasing his own solo material, but the two-LP concert record proved to be on a whole other level. Its setting had everything to do with it, he says.
“There is an enjoyment that runs throughout that album that I think is palpable,” he tells UCR. “And you can feel it when you put the needle down or put the CD in. . I think that s why
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