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2wx David Jones, artist and poet, will never become widely popular and hardly even ever make any widely known. Rootless Welshman, not particularly expressive appearance, with a quiet, completely incapable of PR character, he lived unremarked among the most honest people of his generation, dutifully carrying all the hardships and horrors that fell to its robust amaon uk share of this generation. Passed First World War, from 1915 to 1918 he fought on the Western Front, was wounded. Demobilized by the end of the life led a quiet, reclusive life, divided between the two main his affections amaon uk - poetry and art. In his youth, 1921m year, under the influence of his father, John O'Connor (as is known, served as the prototype for his GK Chesterton Father amaon uk Brown) converted to Catholicism - the choice is dictated by its destiny as a person and as an artist. As a poet, Jones is perhaps more famous; however, rather, as a poet for poets than as a poet to the public. Highly valued colleagues aesthetes, he never made it to the ordinary reader. However, for his poetic experiments followed closely by the chief poet generation - Thomas Stearns Eliot, and other great poetic light - Winston Hugh Auden even nominated his poem "Anafemata" on the title of the best poems written in the English language in the XX century. As an artist, Jones is undoubtedly a genius in the fine arts, for the most part is still well within the scope of his generous geniuses generation modernists. amaon uk His large watercolor sheets in composition somewhat similar amaon uk Filonov - major figures in the center, framed by numerous stamps. His oil paintings are wonderful, but they lead to the memory of so many modern artists of the time from Dufy to Masereel. What makes it quite extraordinary in the art, it is his "Rosary" ("Prayer"), nagravirovanny them in 1925, and published by the publishing house "St Dominic's Press" small circulation, way hand print with planks artist. This Prayer and nagravirovannye them illustrations to "Gulliver's Travels" established his reputation as a unique engraver, amaon uk but failure associated with the craft (destruction of the works of failure publishers to offset the reproduction of his "too dark" prints) forced him to turn to other genres - and end of life Jones devotes painting and that special kind of calligraphy - "Poems in the sheet," which he developed and sole executor of which he was - similar to the experience of other modernists are spaced very far in spirit from his sheets, more reminiscent of the ancient epigrammatiku than, say closest to them in style "Concrete poem" Kamensky. Engravings of his "Prayer Book" I had to search the Internet in parts. There were a few things in a different capacity, mostly by Western special auction for collectors of prints, and I have even been collected not all work this cycle (the full composition I, unfortunately, do not know). Some of these stories (in alphabetical order), I would like to see at least something about this wonderful artist and my favorite was his creation in the Russian-language Internet. Pictures are clickable, some very large) Cover, general view. The Flagellation of Christ Our Lady of the Resurrection Ascension nursing Visitation Gethsemane Coronation of the Virgin amaon uk Mary (Roman Catholic plot) Crowning with Thorns Carrying amaon uk the Cross Boy Jesus and the scribes The Presentation at the Temple Crucifixion Pentecost Assumption Christ sent the Apostles to preach And here are some other work of David Jones. Crucifixion (oil) Crucifixion (etching) Landscape (engraving) poem ("Exit Edictum") painting (oil), the name I do not know Sheets "Aphrodite in Aulis" Illustration for the Arthurian cycle (four Queen Sleeper and Lancelot) Wales landscape Still Life with Figure Here are some photos of nature by David Jones in different years. I'll be grateful for any contribution of David Jones, as well as amendments to the text of the article: in Russian literature about Jones, I have not found, and wrote it himself, as he could, mostly based on the English-language article on David Jones in Wikipedia, I like to see on the Internet amaon uk in Russian about David Jones appeared amaon uk anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones (poet) Here is a link to the English-language film about him Derek Shiel (Derek Shiel) "David Jones. The artist, soldier, poet" http://www.dailymotion.com/ video / xu9moy_ in-search-of-david-jones-artist-soldier-p oet_creation
Well, thank you, Igor! To shoot himself hastily missing. I look at the prices at the auction - 125 for the "Annunciation", for example - it's expensive, but affordable - and sometimes think: maybe not a small thing, to be ruined? I will be true Jones.
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