#carelweight

[dakhmagnasu]

Thoughts of the Girls (1967) Carel Weight (1908-1997). Oil on canvas. 136.5 x 167.5cm.

The sitters for this work are a pupil and a model of the artist's at the Royal College of Art. Los modelos de esta obra son un alumno y un modelo del artista en el Royal College of Art.

[dakhmagnasu]

Girl with Skeletons, c.1959. Oil on board, 47 x 20 in. Carel Weight (1908-1997)

La imagen fue ambientada en el estudio del artista en Cromwell Road y la modelo era la hija del escultor galés Ivor Robert-Jones.

[rumboderiva]

Una despedida

(...) Fuimos hasta la verja en esa gravedad de la sombra que ya el lucero alivia. Como quien vuelve de un perdido prado yo volví de tu abrazo. Como quien vuelve de un país de espadas yo volví de tus lágrimas. Tarde que dura vívida como un sueño entre las otras tardes. Después yo fui alcanzando y rebasando noches y singladuras.

[englishmodernism]

Day of Rest Carel Weight A Sunday Bank Holiday kind of painting. His paintings remind me of the Maigret novels, full of untold stories, disquiet below the surface, and of everyday life. #carelweight #dayofrest #maigret #rca

[hagseeds]

Carel Weight, The Rendezvous, 1953, Oil on canvas, 860 x 1110 mm, Tate. 

'Even when I paint a landscape out of doors, and I say I'm not going to put any figures in; when I get back to the studio I always paint in figures; it would be too lonely without people'. Carel Weight

I found it fascinating that Weight painted in the figures afterward. Whilst many of her pieces have very solid real figures caught in action there are others that have the translucent quality of ghosts (The Rendezvous, above and Pre-Raphelite Tragedy, below). 

Carel Weight, Pre-Raphelite Tragedy, 1950, Oil on Board, 930 x 1530 mm, London, The Zwemmer Gallery. 

[englishmodernism]

The World We Live In Carel Weight I've known about his work for some time but have only recently been looking closer. Such a wonderful storyteller. I've just discovered too that there's an IG site devoted to his work @carel_weight so head over! #carelweight #painter #theworldwelivein