Cultural Depictions of Dylan Thomas - in Art

In Art

  • Alfred Janes' 1934 portrait of Thomas is held by the National Museum of Wales. Janes, like Thomas was a member of the The Kardomah Gang or The Kardomah Boys, a group of bohemian Swansea friends who met at the Kardomah CafĂ©, in Castle Street, Swansea. Janes created three portraits of Thomas, the first of which, painted in Coleherne Road in 1934, is oil on canvas and displays Janes's technique at this period of cutting lines into the paint with his pen-knife, to provide relief and focus.
  • Between 1937 and 1938, Augustus John produced two portraits of Thomas. One of which is held by the National Museum of Wales, acquired in 1942.

Read more about this topic:  Cultural Depictions Of Dylan Thomas

Famous quotes containing the word art:

    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
    Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
    And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.... I would call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
    “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
    “That was the curious incident.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)