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...
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.