(1997) organized by the Hirshborn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He needed to be: at 49, Spencer was a seasoned artist, having exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale – but even so, he was burdened with financial debt. La série d’émissions de la BBC diffusées en 1929, dédiée au « caractère national », reflétait le goût pour le « cottage culturel » selon Osbert Lancaster. 20Writing about Cottages at Burghclere [fig. Figure 1: J.M.W. offers a fascinating double portrait set against a window opening onto a churchyard looming in the background in the most uncanny way. (Forster 384), Nostalgia and jingoism explain the success of those “lovely” pictures, although people did not perceive the slightly or discreet uncanny elements one may perceive in them: for Spencer never gave up his singular vision of his ordinary world in spite of its peculiar perspective and crowded in details. Figure 6: Stanley Spencer, Adoration of Old Men (1937), oil on canvas, 90.6x110.5 cm, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, https://artuk.org/​discover/​artworks/​adoration-of-old-men-81495, last accessed 1 November 2019. They, are clearly visible in the background together with graves, crosses, flowers, trees, the church porch, grass and landscape at the back. Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Access supplemental materials and multimedia. to Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Paula Rego, among others. 20] and Freud’s Factory in North London [fig. 2We know that the etymology of land-scape (land+skip, landschaft) actually points to a sight which encloses an expanse of land visible to one’s eye. 5], Adoration of Old Men [fig. 4 Bell 272, quoting the letter from Stanley Spencer to Desmund Chute, letter n°52 c. 1927, SSG (Stanley Spencer Gallery). https://www.artuk.org/​discover/​artworks/​love-on-the-moor-4600. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/​art-and-artists/​4766/​vale-dedham. 9], the background of which is typically “cookhamesque”. London: Phaidon, 2011. Liliane Louvel, « Changing/Unchanging Landscapes: Stanley Spencer’s “Peculiarly English” Landscapes  », Polysèmes [En ligne], 22 | 2019, mis en ligne le 20 décembre 2019, consulté le 21 janvier 2021. (my translation)]. La vision idéalisée d’un village anglais entretenue par Country Life fut plus tard remise en scène dans des séries télévisées comme Miss Marple, Downton Abbey ou Inspector Morse. 7Spencer’s landscape “production” is paradoxical, in the sense that it goes against the grain, against doxa, when we realize that he painted two very different kinds of landscapes. Elles évoquent la manière des préraphaélites (abondance de détails, couleurs vives). Son champ de recherche est la littérature britannique contemporaine et les rapports texte/image. Animals lay stricken on the ground and strewn around are the bricks and panels of destruction. They have a strong foreground which in the case of Spencer acted as a kind of frame but also as a barrier obstructing vision, forcing the eye to make the effort of going beyond the often highly detailed obstacle, foliage or hedge. This study will focus on Spencer’s two “manners” and analyse the extent to which his landscapes contributed to the fashioning of a nostalgic yearning for a quickly disappearing world also celebrated in E.M. Forster’s taste for “England green and eternal” (Abinger Harvest) for instance. One of his most famous series, commemorating the First World War, painted on the walls of the Burghlere Memorial, was presented to the National Trust by its owners Mr and Mrs Behrend in 1947, when the artist was still alive. https://artuk.org/​discover/​artworks/​christs-entry-into-jerusalem-37832. https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​spencer-the-resurrection-cookham-n04239. On en trouve des équivalents littéraires chez E.M. Forster par exemple et sa célébration d’une « Angleterre verte et éternelle » (Abinger Harvest). Quite a number of his paintings were bought by The Tate Gallery and can be seen there nowadays. 12Stanley Spencer most valued his figure paintings, which he found innovative and creative, and deeply regretted having to paint landscapes and still lifes to make a living. Land-scape—the English language can offer multiple declensions of the term as in sea-scape, in-scape town/city-scape, photo-scape—designates a limited view cut off from an unlimited space. Very surprising is the other part of his production dedicated to landscapes, flowers, and still life paintings. They are the result of centuries of work inscribed/written on the landscape like handwriting on a page. This is the true instance of a fight between a much-loved tradition and the need to emancipate oneself from it while following one’s own aesthetic choices and vision rendering. La coupure et le cerne, Contemporary Victoriana - Women and Parody, Portail de ressources électroniques en sciences humaines et sociales. Even some of Hockney’s recent Yorkshire landscapes strikingly share formal traits with Spencer’s views of Cookham’s fields and meadows seen from a distance, for instance Hockney’s 2006 The Road to Thwing [fig. Even in Freud’s landscapes we may find similarities: for instance if we compare Spencer’s, ]. They are reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites’ manner (with a lot of details and brilliant colours). Although he often had to do so as a potboiler, he did enjoy sitting out painting in the open, watching and relishing the view. [The ancient state of our works comes back in the new one. The 1,014 sq. Looking forward to the…to the …, Spencer’s paintings sold quite well and thus in their turn can be said to have contributed to the construction of the national myth of British identity. London: Tate Publishing, 2001. Looking forward to the…to the …, “To the future?” Mr. Ellis suggested. 30The English village and the Thames Valley area which Stanley Spencer kept close to his heart and painted all his life, and which he practically never left—except during the wars and for the occasional trip abroad with friends—pervaded even his “figure paintings”. Yet he was far from parochial, and woven into Duncan Robinson's account of the artist's career is a just appreciation of his greatness and of his place in the wider context of European art. Actually, Burghclere stands next to Highclere where Downton Abbey—the media embodiment of this nostalgic evocation of Edwardian England that modern British TV viewers enjoyed so much—was shot. Two very different modes of landscape painting can be descried. First, Cookham, the Thames, the village, its churchyard, such as in the famous Tate Resurrection, provide the backdrop for his favourite imaginative “distorted” figure paintings. Les lignes de l’écriture paraissent mimer les sillons du labour. Thus, the pub and its name evoke past memories under the aegis of one of the British people’s favourite places. Let us remember that the opening scene of. Toute sa vie, il peignit des paysages de campagne. These were often the result of commissions. clearly stands a visual ideology. They are reminiscent of some of John Constable’s landscapes, which also favoured a, . He declared himself puzzled about his being in two minds about the two types of subject-matter (Bell 272). Le mot latin pagus désignait le champ que l’agriculteur labourait : terme si ancien et vénérable que le paganisme des païens, comme le paysage d’un pays, modelé patiemment par les paysans, lui empruntèrent tous cinq leur nom, religieux ou culturel. He painted it over the course of nearly a year in the front bedroom of his family home in Cookham. Painted in April 1940. It is true that his work, deeply rooted in the English soil, space and history, seems for a major part relatively immune to foreign influence, although he had his post-impressionist moment, something visible in Mending Cowls, Cookham [fig. Blind stamped at lower left, Stanley Spencer Studio Sale. It eventually became autonomous even if some “grand” subjects still loomed in the background: one can only think of Turner’s 1810-1812 Snow Storm: Hannibal crossing the Alps [fig. Expo 58. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/polysemes/5623 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/polysemes.5623. Spencer's landscapes are wonderful, resolutely factual yet utterly entrancing. For example, in May 2020, Cecily Brown’s Figures in a Landscape I (2001) sold for $5.5 million via Gagosian. AccueilNuméros22Revisiting HeritageChanging/Unchanging Landscapes: S... Stanley Spencer a toujours manifesté un attachement profond pour les paysages anglais et en particulier pour celui de Cookham, son village natal du Berkshire qu’il appelait son paradis. Figure 14: Stanley Spencer, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, oil on canvas, 122x 91.5 cm. In 1940, when Stanley Spencer painted Cottage Garden, Leonard Stanley, one of a series of garden scenes, Britain was at war. He kept painting rural landscapes all his life. 9Although the landscapes in the background are often recognizable as Cookham or the Cookham area, their pictorial treatment contributes to the oneiric quality of the paintings. In the painting representing Patricia Preece in the nude, the leg of mutton quaintly appears as reminiscent of the estranged Hilda. Bowie is a Spencer enthusiast and collector who here shows rare footage of the artist in selections from home movies as well as recollections from family and friends. As if putting under our own eyes our worst nightmares, those of another suppressed world appearing in a. light, with the texture of their clothes seen under a microscope. Stanley Spencer's 'Cottages at Burghclere' Two English cottages, one thatched, one tile-clad, lie all but buried in a high summer profusion of shrubbery, brambles … For Michel Serres: L’ancien état de nos travaux revient dans le nouveau. One of the flaps of it reads: Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) is one of the outstanding painters of the twentieth century. Figure 25: David Hockney, The Road to Thwing (2006), see https://thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/​resources/​film/​the-road-to-thwing, last accessed 11 December 2019. 26K. Religious scenes are often depicted with great violence like the 1958, the background of which is typically “cookhamesque”. Figure 18: Stanley Spencer, Double Nude Portrait: The Artist and his Second Wife (The Leg of Mutton Nude) (1937), 91.5x93.5 cm, oil on canvas, Tate Modern, London, https://www.wikiart.org/​en/​stanley-spencer/​double-nude-portrait-the-artist-and-his-second-wife-the-leg-of-mutton-nude-1937, last accessed 1 November 2019. in a most striking way. Literary equivalents could be found in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex and E.M. Forster’s disparaging of buildings and cities, hailing an ideal England in Abinger Harvest: Houses, houses, houses! The Latin word. The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House 1918-1939, Stanley Spencer’s Exceptional Turn: Self-portraits and Double Portraits, L’immobilité vive, ou « une petite étoile à la vitre du texte », Intense Immobility or “a Small Star on the Window Pane of the Text”, Tours et retournements du « moment ekphrastique » : histoires de rideaux, de mousseline et de frêles voiles de chair, De quelques problèmes théoriques : marges et cadres. Figure 22: David Hockney, My Parents (1977), oil on canvas, 182.9x182.9 cm, Tate collection, https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​hockney-my-parents-t03255, last accessed 11 December 2019. Spencer slowly became a national artist acknowledged as such. Figure 4: Stanley Spencer, Zacharias and Elizabeth (1913-1914), oil on canvas, 142.6x142.8 cm, Tate collections, https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​spencer-zacharias-and-elizabeth-t07486, last accessed 1 November 2019. [I]t may be questioned if Mr. Spencer is not showing a better way in working towards unity through what may be called the rough of his native talents” (. From 1915 to 1918 Spencer served in World War I, an experience that inspired works such as the mural The Resurrection of the Soldiers (1928–29), in which he depicted dead soldiers emerging from their tombs into a cross-strewn landscape. 17] in 1930 at the Goupil Salon, quite a number of his paintings are kept in The Ferens Gallery in Hull. It gave pride of place to a peaceful valley softly unrolling beneath the eye in tones of yellow and green. 309 Stanley Spencer Mountain Rd , Gastonia, NC 28056-7836 is currently not for sale. The paintings of cottages, farmhouses, moors, woods, fields, Thames Valley sites, and villages snugly tucked away down hillsides, are rendered in a highly detailed realistic manner which was a favorite of collectors, who enjoyed these less controversial and disturbing subjects. Spencer, Stanley. Even some of Hockney’s recent Yorkshire landscapes strikingly share formal traits with Spencer’s views of Cookham’s fields and meadows seen from a distance, for instance Hockney’s 2006, ]. Doesn’t the front cover of Norton’s Anthology of English Literature’s seventh edition, volume 2, dedicated to the romantic period, Victorian literature and the twentieth century, reproduce Swan Upping at Cookham? Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. A parallel Michel Serres comments on when he sees a lineage between the French words, . He strongly felt for it seeing it as his “heaven” and kept painting rural landscapes all his life. https://www.wikiart.org/​en/​stanley-spencer/​the-crucifixion-1958s. Selected and edited by Adrian Glew. Critics found such traditional “English” landscapes reassuring after all in front of Fry’s, Bell’s, Grant’s and other Modernist painters’ works and experiments which seemed much too European-oriented. 21]. Bell’s comprehensive complete Catalogue was published by Phaidon in 1992. We can also think of Francis Bacon’s paintings of spilling out flesh. They are reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites’ manner (with a lot of details and brilliant colours). My take is that we can also see this paradox in terms of a conflict of times and a kind of anachronism. 3] with its decorated frame (the bridge) its fine colours (deep blue versus brown), its composition following a movement going left to right then back to front, and its bucolic, mundane, almost pastoral theme (although the swans are captured and bound) is weird and slightly frightening. Turner, Snow Storm: Hannibal crossing the Alps (exhibited 1812), oil on canvas, 146x237 cm, Tate Britain, https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​turner-snow-storm-hannibal-and-his-army-crossing-the-alps-n00490, last accessed 1 November 2019. Literary equivalents could be found in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex and E.M. Forster’s disparaging of buildings and cities, hailing an ideal England in. 7]. https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​hockney-mr-and-mrs-clark-and-percy-t01269. So the issue does not concern the “reality” or the truthfulness of their models but their painterly treatment. https://www.wikiart.org/​en/​lucian-freud/​factory-in-north-london, https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​hockney-my-parents-t03255. Forster, E.M. Abinger Harvest (1934). in a most striking way. This is the case with Swan Upping at Cookham [fig. Religious scenes are often depicted with great violence like the 1958 Crucifixion [fig. Like many of Spencer's garden landscape paintings, Hoe Garden Nursery appears to be a rather mundane composition. Spencer’s landscapes responded and contributed to the fashioning of a particular nostalgia for a quickly disappearing rural world people could still connect with, reminiscent of happy memories and times gone by (see Tinniswood). They have a strong foreground which in the case of Spencer acted as a kind of frame but also as a barrier obstructing vision, forcing the eye to make the effort of going beyond the often highly detailed obstacle, foliage or hedge. The long-running, also set the tune for desirable properties and gardens with herbacious borders, a luxuriance of well watered plants and flowers, and abundance of green grass to sit on in summer to have tea. Looking at things […] looking at things, as I said, both historically and culturally—and also scientifically. Cookham Dene.’ was created in 1939 by Stanley Spencer in Neo-Romanticism style. What is also particularly striking and may make one giddy is his singular use of perspective: he often chose to paint from an elevated position thus favouring a high angle close to a bird’s eye view and a lot of the scenes are captured from high up. Olwig, Kenneth R. “Recovering the Substantive Meaning of Landscape”. ], or some of his still lifes. https://www.artuk.org/​discover/​artworks/​mr-and-mrs-baggett-27350, https://thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/​resources/​film/​the-road-to-thwing, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/948/, Le « tournant exceptionnel » de Stanley Spencer : autoportraits et doubles portraits, Catalogue des 552 revues. 23Nostalgia and jingoism explain the success of those “lovely” pictures, although people did not perceive the slightly or discreet uncanny elements one may perceive in them: for Spencer never gave up his singular vision of his ordinary world in spite of its peculiar perspective and crowded in details. [I]t may be questioned if Mr. Spencer is not showing a better way in working towards unity through what may be called the rough of his native talents” (The Times, undated cutting, anon.,7.33.12.1 [Tate Gallery Archives Stanley Spencer collection]). My landscapes, he once wrote, are places waiting for their figures. A fact which also might explain why they were so popular and sold well. Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. 17Very surprising when compared with what at times reflects the ferociousness and violence if not of the subjects, at least of the deformations the figures are subjected to, is the other part of his production dedicated to landscapes, flowers, and still life paintings. Let us remember that the opening scene of Portrait of a Lady is set in such surroundings with the country house standing in the background. One of the flaps of it reads: So, surprisingly this paradoxical “eccentric” artist has been recognized as typically English (and eventually British), that is one belonging to the centre and the establishment as opposed to the margin as the word “eccentric” suggests. of the Virgin Mary. Laurence Petit & Karen Brown, Word/Image, Taylor and Francis, 2015). 'Spencer paints landscape as they [the Pre-Raphaelites Hunt, Brown and Millais] did, not so minutely of course, but with the same prodigious delight in all the facts of nature for their own sake. Matless, David. La production de paysages de Spencer est complexe et paradoxale. Serving officers, … These, which he liked so much and rated higher than all other creations, as being his true achievement as an English painter, still retain the flavour of Cookham, his—paradoxical—heaven. Deeply “eccentric” in inspiration, he was also deeply of his nation in his love for fine landscapes, which he painted and rendered unto his fellow countrymen for keeps, in celebration of: This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle. The idealized vision of an English village promoted by Country Life was also after all re-captured in such TV popular productions as the Miss Marple series, Downton Abbey, or Inspector Morse. The paintings of cottages, moors, Thames valley sites, villages tucked down hillsides, are rendered in a highly detailed realistic manner, a favourite of collectors’. —the media embodiment of this nostalgic evocation of Edwardian England that modern British TV viewers enjoyed so much—was shot. It is this apparent paradox I will try to explore and look into. ft. single-family home is a 3 bed, 1.0 bath property. Looking at things […] looking at things, as I said, both historically and culturally—and also scientifically. Thus, the publisher Norton acknowledges the British quality of the painting and its subject, but it also cleverly promotes one of the close-to-cubism or Gauguin-inspired pictures by Stanley Spencer in keeping with modernism and its literature. Or la page sur laquelle j’écris et que le lecteur lit aujourd’hui, stockage d’informations le plus anciennement connu, et l’un des premiers circuits, dérive aussi et encore, du même vocable. Two portraits of Patricia Preece by Stanley Spencer featured in the very first rooms acknowledging the link between his work and these artists’. Figure 13: Stanley Spencer, The Resurrection, Cookham (1924-1927), oil on canvas, 274.3x548.6 cm, Tate collections, https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​spencer-the-resurrection-cookham-n04239, last accessed 1 November 2019. The female character behind the boat is a compound of Gauguin’s Tahiti women wearing “missionary” dresses, whereas her headdress is like a flower garland reminiscent of Piero’s or other Renaissance painters’ subjects, painters Spencer greatly admired. 25]. Spencer’s landscape “production” is complex and paradoxical. His ambivalence was perceptible when he wrote: “I want to make love to everything at the same moment and yet be traditional” (Spencer 215, August 1943). In 2018, the Tate Gallery dedicated an exhibition entitled. They are reminiscent of some of John Constable’s landscapes, which also favoured a high viewpoint, like the 1828 Vale of Dedham [fig. Houses, houses, houses! Bell reports that after the Tate Gallery bought. This “unevenness between the two types of subject-matter left Spencer feeling “dubious of myself altogether” as he felt that both should move him equally.4. Stanley Spencer most valued his figure paintings, which he found innovative and creative, and deeply regretted having to paint landscapes and still lifes to make a living. Find more prominent pieces of landscape at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Gaston County, North Carolina Obituary Collection - 523. Then landscape painting broke away from its status as mere background for high subjects be they religious or mythological scenes for History painting, as in Giorgione’s or Poussin’s paintings, or for portraits of noble characters in Gainsborough’s own work. (Serres 56). 8" x 6-1/2" sight size. Stanley Spencer’s strong link with the “English” landscape is particularly obvious in his desire to be called “Cookham”, the name of his Berkshire native village. Elle est actuellement présidente de IAWIS/IAERTI (International Society of Word & Image Studies). We publish books, journals and software under the SAGE, Corwin 10] in which a long frieze depicts men and women of all ethnic origins engaged in embracing, kissing, talking, etc. The figures are threateningly dwarfed and we may wonder where the swans are going to end. Bell, Keith. Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press) In Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem [fig. These, which he liked so much and rated higher than all other creations, as being his true achievement as an English painter, still retain the flavour of Cookham, his—paradoxical—heaven. Il s’agit là souvent d’œuvres de commande. An, effect results from the seemingly impossible and weird “association” of people engaged in all kinds of hectic gestures or occupations. 15]. 1 See list of paintings at the end of the article. A fact which also might explain why they were so popular and sold well. On the one hand, he is famous for his bizarre distorted figures full of angst and fervour often set against strange backgrounds. 18]… The leg of mutton refers to a typical English feature and institution characteristic of a typically English rural landscape. For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​spencer-swan-upping-at-cookham-t00525. A parallel Michel Serres comments on when he sees a lineage between the French words paganisme, païen, paysage, pays, paysan and then page. This was also attuned to the English Heritage series in 1929 broadcast by the BBC and devoted to the “national character”, and the taste for “the cultural cottage” (Osbert Lancaster). It is also a shared space, that of a community, and it works as a cultural construction answering Kenneth Olwig’s attempt at a redefinition of it as “the substantive meaning of landscape as a place of human habitation and environmental interaction” (Olwig 630). Bell sums up a letter he sent to Desmond Chute in 1927: He usually found landscapes “dull and empty”, devoid of the spiritual exaltation of a “resurrection or a visitation…” which had “something marvellous” about it. Figure 5: Stanley Spencer, St Francis and the Birds (1935), oil on canvas, 66x58.4 cm, Tate collections, https://www.tate.org.uk/​art/​artworks/​spencer-st-francis-and-the-birds-t00961, last accessed 1 November 2019. Stanley Spencer (1992). Mr and Mrs Baggett offers a fascinating double portrait set against a window opening onto a churchyard looming in the background in the most uncanny way. Stanley Spencer: This green and pleasant land Stanley Spencer saw the common English garden in a warm and sensuous light that even war could not destroy. This study will focus on Spencer’s two “manners” and analyse the extent to which his landscapes contributed to the fashioning of a nostalgic yearning for a quickly disappearing world also celebrated in E.M. Forster’s taste for “England green and eternal” (, ) for instance. Spencer's landscapes were popular with the art buying public, but he was by no means passionate about making them. I would never have dreamt of doing the same with one of what he called his “figure paintings”, first and foremost his Resurrection. 4At the origin of the picturesque and of landscaping clearly stands a visual ideology. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. 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