Evan Walters and the Jug

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A look at double-image painting.

Black and white archive film with original commentary explaining the methodology behind double-image painting. The film shows Evan Walters painting a figure of a model using this technique. Presenter Kim Howells interviews conservation officer Emma Fisher at Swansea's Glynn Vivian art gallery in front of one of Evan Walters's double-image paintings 'Stout Man with a Jug', painted in the 1930's. Emma explains how parts of the image are repeated - hand, eye, etc. and that this gives an effect of movement. She suggests that this may have been his response to the experimentation taking place in art at the time; ie his stab at modernism. Emma shows one simple step in cleaning a painting of this age and condition, simply using a cotton bud and a little saliva.
From: Framing Wales Episode 2
First Broadcast : 3 March 2011

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 7-9,9-11,11-14

Subject : Art & Design

Topic : Art history, Painting and drawing, Portraits

Keywords : Evan Walters, Double-image, Modernism, Experimentation

Notes : Pupils explore simple visual tricks or effects like double vision etc and try to convey these in sketches, drawings and paintings - explore and experiment! See Welsh Biography Online - Evan Walters for details on his life.


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