Welcome back. On Wednesday 23rd November, just a day after giving my lecture on Leonardo at the Court of Milan to the High Weald Decorative and Fine Arts Society in Staplehurst, Kent, I made a visit to the Imperial War Museum, London to witness and experience the overwhelming and the shear power of Don McCullin's photographs.
The emotion in Don McCullin's pictures, taken decades ago by this great photographer is still palpable. Amongst the images that moved me were Don McCullin's image of pain and anguish on the face a Turkish Cypriot woman, that for me brings to life the emotions seen in Massacre of the Innocents Pulpit at Sant' Andrea in Pistoia, Italy (1301) by the Renaissance sculptor Giovanni Pisano (c.1245/50-after 1314).
From these powerful images to Don McCullin's black and white still life image of flowers with its crisp painterly-like qualities to his haunting landscapes; one can experience, as McCullin says, 'a darkness inside' of him, that in the case of his non-war pictures bring a sublime beauty to his work.
Don McCullin's Shaped by War exhibition is at the Imperial War Museum until 15th April 2012.
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