Tuesday, 23 October 2012

HoveTown Hall on fire 1966 by Peter Saunders

This painting was probably produced in a studio  from on-the-spot-sketches, and brings Turner's paintings of the burning of the Houses of Parliament to mind. Turner famously worked from rapid watercolour sketches, milling with the crowds watching Parliament burn, and  later worked up ambitious oil-paintings, using his powerful imagination and visual memory.( See above)

Also, it also reminds me of  the well-known architectural image by John Piper of Coventry Cathedral after the bombing raid of 1940. (See above.)

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