A friend and ex-colleague, an art teacher and art historian, footballer, Leeds fan!! has been, over recent weeks, enlightening us with detailed explanations and histories of well known paintings. One artist that "got me" was Rene Magritte, a "Surrealist" and to the left is one of his pieces, "Representation", a football match, painted in 1962. (there is another piece by him called "La Representation", which is another "ball game" so to speak.
Whatever, Brian got me going on a topic for today's "blog" which is famous paintings with football as the main subject.
It will be worth looking up Magritte's range of topics-for your education! There are several footy related pieces of work by him. The long link below may help....
The Football Museum in Manchester has football paintings on display too. Worth a visit when all this Covid business is GONE! See link at the bottom.
Thomas Webster painted this "mob game" in 1839. The ball is just out of the "maul" on the edge of the path, kicked by the lad in light clothes. Games stretched over miles! and involved 100s of participants usually between villages, usually on a day of celebration such as Shrove Tuesday.
It is Jack Charlton’s favourite painting and forms the centrepiece for the exhibition that includes other drawings and memorabilia as well as video diaries. Jack Charlton says, “This is just like it was in those days when I was young: all wooden open stands, cinders underfoot, terrible conditions in the toilets. It reminds me of Newcastle United years ago. Everyone turning up 15 minutes before kick-off, seeing your uncle Billy or your school mates in the crowd… there’s so much in it, it’s fabulous.”
The link above will take you to a range of paintings and artists.
Big wall!
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