VEGETABLES GO TO SCHOOL

© Professor Chris Orr RA

VEGETABLES GO TO SCHOOL 1983

Chris Orr (1943 – )

Details

Dimension
57.2 X 38.3 CM
Media
ETCHING
Accession number
P6053

Summary

Orr studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and the Royal College of Art where he later became Professor of Printmaking. Described variously as quintessentially English or a latter- day Hogarth, Orr has said that “Many of my pictures are composed of well-mixed metaphors, arcane references, allusions and jokes but I have always drawn from life and seen the role of the artist as a viewer and a voyeur. The fantastical and the eccentric are only other ways of getting at the truths of things that I see around me.” This comedy of manners acted out by vegetables is typical of Orr’s witty and parodic vein.

Thresholds, British Council 2010