For this assignment, I am going to discuss the artist Lawrence Stephen Lowry who painted various different styles, but I will be focussing particularly upon his industrial urban scenes of Manchester in England around about the first half of the twentieth century. Around this period, he had adopted a style of painting busy crowd scenes in which he painted 'matchstick people' within his hometown settings. Critics have on occasions referred to these paintings as 'childlike', and it is the origins of this area of his art that I wish to discuss.
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