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war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby tracerman » 13 Jun 2015, 08:59

I just happened to be trolling through some paintings by British artists ( like you do) when I came across this painting by the British artist Laura Knight depicting a woman on a lathe . Anyone care to identify the machine she is using ? .

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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby DaveL » 13 Jun 2015, 09:03

Steve,
Do you have a link to the picture?
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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby Rob » 13 Jun 2015, 09:05

tracerman wrote:I just happened to be trolling through some paintings by British artists ( like you do) when I came across this painting by the British artist Laura Knight depicting a woman on a lathe . Anyone care to identify the machine she is using ? .

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Her work is very clean...certainly unsullied by any actual paint :-)
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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby tracerman » 13 Jun 2015, 09:13

Sorry chaps , got up too early - look at www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/lauraknight and go through the slide show .

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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby Robert » 13 Jun 2015, 09:46

Not easy to link to images on that site. is this the one you mean?

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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby Rob » 13 Jun 2015, 10:19

no idea what the lathe is but it's a dam nice one :-)
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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby Rod » 13 Jun 2015, 11:22

And big - going by the size of the bed?

During the war my Mum used to paint Fire Engines - doing her bit for King and Country.

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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby tracerman » 14 Jun 2015, 08:31

Robert , yes that's the picture - as a wood-be painter the first thing I thought of was that , considering the assumed accuracy , the artist was working from a photo . I think she has captured the feeling of the "great British cast iron bloody heavy " genre . The second thing I thought was the operator is not wearing eye protection , and those internal callipers look to about to fall down into the bed .

Perhaps I need to get out more .

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Re: war artist's painting of woman on lathe

Postby Rob » 14 Jun 2015, 12:25

I'm not sure elf n safety had been invented then :-)
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