Walter Sickert
Walter Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert, born in Munich, Germany, was a painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century...
incessant
(About the incessant sopping drizzle in Normandy)It can't go on foreverIt would if it couldBut there's no use talkingFor it wouldn't if it could.
one-day sitting done
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.
likes-and-dislikes serious artistic
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.