An Art day in Manchester and Liverpool

[Ken Rennie]

We had a few days staying with our elder daughter in Manchester. On this day we visited the Lowry Art Gallery in Salford (Manchester). Lowry is famous in Britain but probably largely unknown outside of it although his work sells for huge sums. He painted the industrial North West of England when there was industry here in the mid 20thC. If it was anything like Glasgow in the 50s and 60s the atmosphere must have been thick with smoke, I can still recall the taste of fog laced the coal smoke and sulpher. Manchester had cotton mills, lots of them as well as all the usual factories.

Anothe Art exhibit but outdoors this time. Another Place by Antony Gormley. This is a series of 100 life sized cast iron statues spread over a square mile of Crosby Beach just outside of Liverpool.
Unfortunately the tide was out as I would have liked a series of images with some of the statues surrounded by water. I was wearing sandals as I thought that I could walk out to the waters edge but firstly the warning signs of quicksand and a few steps into the mud discouraged me from going out.

 

[AlanLichty]

How did they manage to anchor the statues with quicksand on these beaches? 100 statues sounds like a crowd on the beach even when no one is around

Interesting how thoroughly barnacled the statue is in the first image.

 

[JimFox]

Those are interesting paintings. I like his style.

And those statues are so cool. What a different idea on those statues are where they are places. With the shallow tide it would work well in that area.

 

[Trent Watts]

These are enjoyable to look at Ken. The beach sculptures are remarkable and the wall art are really interesting.