#edwardburra

Edward Burra - Straw Man 1963

Edward Burra - Picking A Quarrel (1968-69)

DANCING SKELETONS: For Halloween, here’s Barnett Freedman’s book jacket for Sacheverell Sitwell’s ‘Dance of the Quick and the Dead’, published by @faberbooks in 1936. It’s a great title, and I’m always fascinated by such evocative idioms that you catch in plays and poetry. In this case, it has its origins in William Tyndale’s 1526 translation of the New Testament, and later in 1603 appears in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (when the Danish prince and a gravedigger converse about the burial of Ophelia) and then in 1611 in the King James’ Bible. The imagery makes me think of cross-cultural imagery: of Edward Burra’s ‘Dancing Skeletons’ of 1934, of which I imagine Freedman would have been aware. They were fellow students at the Royal College of Art and part of what Paul Nash describes as an ‘Outbreak of Talent’. I loved having it in the Burra exhibition I curated in 2011 - and wrote about in the @lhartbooks monograph. Burra of course loved the macabre - from Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies to the Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar. Happy Halloween! #halloween #dancingskeleton #skeleton #edwardburra #barnettfreedman #modernbritishart #pallanthousegallery #book #bookstagram #design #sacheverellsitwell #illustration #quickandthedead (at Pallant House Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHAq3dhFYur/?igshid=1ucjcnl89b618

today its the cat the bull an the cloud in a very blue sky i sometimes put these as an influence #yellowsubmarine #arthurmachen #jamesensor #edvardmunch #picasso #edwardburra #francisbacon #gerhardrichter #caravaggio #julesverne #stephenking #maldoror #magic #1970s #miro #captainpugwash #maryshelly #akira #joydivision #can #pixies #meatpuppets #sparklehorse #mercuryrev #flaminglips

the great god pan tony is an artist from great britain an island of supernatural his work may frighten #contemporarypainting #art #arthurmachen #jamesensor #edvardmunch #picasso #edwardburra

#edwardburra mbe there it is in jolly mad #rye

yes #edwardburra got a cbe in #rye

i am not in #rye and have not found a display case with a lot of #edwardburra