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ART FOR SALE: Chris Orr @ Jill George Gallery
Newspaper article from The Independent (London, England)
Beginning of article
CHRIS ORR asked Michael Palin to write the essay that accompanied his 2003 catalogue, The Disguise Factory. You can see why. Orr once described his work as 'the conjunction of the deadly serious with the kaleidoscopic weirdness of the world' " a quality, of course, essential to a Pythonesque vision. It's obvious what Palin likes about Orr's wacky prints, lithographs, etchings and drawings: his subversive, fairground view of the world. It's as if Bruegel has teamed up with the children's illustrator Edward Ardizzone. The result is irreverent, yet loaded with nostalgia.
Orr's topographical view of Paris, 1898 " a diptych in watercolour and collage " has everything, …
