Title
unknown (Woman in Blue) (detail), n.d., Beaverbrook Art
Gallery
Learn to Look at Women's Portraits
Anthony Flower & Christopher Pratt
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Click on image for complete view
ANTHONY FLOWER Mary Flower, 1854
watercolour on paper
39.37 x 34.3 cm
Private Collection
CHRISTOPHER PRATT Summer of the Karmann Ghia, 1998
lithograph on paper
28.4 x 26.6 cm
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
What we see
What do these two paintings have in common?
How are they different?
How we feel
How would you describe the girls in these
two paintings? Are they like you or different? Why do you
think that?
What we think
Anthony Flower named this painting after
his daughter, Mary Flower. Christopher Pratt’s print
of this young woman is named Summer of the Karmann Ghia
which is the type of car. What do you think the artists
want to tell us about these young women? Does this say anything
about the artist?
How it was made
Christopher Pratt’s work is a type
of print called a lithograph. Most of his images started
from a photo. Ask one of your friends to take a photo of
your that would say something important about you.
About the artist
Christopher Pratt (b. 1935) is an
artist whose paintings are so detailed they look like photographs
but he uses limited colours to make them seem very quiet
and still. This combination is called “magic realism.”
