Edward Lear, Moment to Moment

李尔以多产的废话诗人而闻名世界，但他的初恋是绘画和绘画。在50年的时间里，他走遍了欧洲、巴尔干、中东、印度等地，创作了数千幅画。《爱德华·李尔，时时刻刻》首次汇集了他整个职业生涯中的优秀素描和绘画精选。展览利用了美国、英国和欧洲的几个收藏品和档案，将展示李尔对文化和地理环境的敏锐敏感性，展示他激进的联想思维和方法如何在他的经历的不同部分之间建立联系。在几个方面，该项目将鼓励人们考虑李尔王的艺术性如何有助于有关跨文化交流动态的辩论。此外，展览和公共节目都探讨了李尔的巡回生活是如何融入他的创作过程的，他的生活方式多种多样。这位艺术家麻烦的家族史和他对同性恋的复杂态度--以及他一生中患有癫痫、抑郁症和精神不稳定--对他的作品产生了重大影响。这个项目展示了关于性和社会身份、身体和精神疾病的问题是如何成为他艺术的关注点的--最关键的是，它展示了李尔是如何将他的艺术构想为不仅是以他的过去为标志的，而且是一种处理它的治疗形式。这个项目超越了人们对李尔王仅仅是亲切或琐碎的看法，关注这位艺术家如何将自己体验为一个怪人、一个陌生人和一个旁观者(他哀叹道，社会是一场我不能参与的游戏)。李尔迷上了流放、流离、迁徙和边缘化的形式；他的“局外人”身份帮助他成为了一名敏锐的社会准则分析家，以及这些准则可能被重新思考和重塑的方式。这次展览的举办正值关于社区多样性和凝聚力的辩论--以及艺术在发展这种联系中可能发挥的作用--的时候。此外，最近对艺术治疗的兴趣，以及关注当下的创造性正念的形式，表明公众需要利用艺术来促进身心健康。展览和公共计划都旨在回应这一需求。这个项目的基本动机是通过邀请观众思考他是如何从他的时刻到我们的时刻说话的，来探索李尔工作正在进行的遗产。

Lear is known around the world as a prolific nonsense poet, but his first love was drawing and painting. Over a period of fifty years, he travelled in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, India, and beyond, composing thousands of pictures. 'Edward Lear, Moment to Moment' brings together, for the first time, an outstanding selection of sketches and paintings from across the whole span of his career. Drawing on several collections and archives in the USA, the UK, and Europe, the exhibition will demonstrate Lear's acute sensitivity to cultural and geographic contexts, showing how his radically associative mind and method forge connections between disparate parts of his experience. At several points, the project will encourage consideration of how Lear's artistry can contribute to debates about the dynamics of multicultural exchange. In addition, both the exhibition and the public programme explore how Lear's itinerant life, one lived in many ways from moment to moment, fed into his creative process. The artist's troubled family history and his complex attitude towards his homosexuality -- along with his lifelong troubles with epilepsy, depression, and mental instability -- had a major influence on his work. This project shows how questions about sexual and social identity, physical and mental illness, became informing preoccupations of his art -- and, crucially, it demonstrates how Lear conceived his art not merely as marked by his past but as a form of therapy for dealing with it.Pushing beyond received views of Lear as merely genial or trivial, this project concentrates attention on how the artist experienced himself as an oddity, a stranger, a spectator ('Society is a game I can't play at,' he lamented). Lear was fascinated by forms of exile and uprootedness, migration and marginality; his 'outsider' status helped to make him an acute analyst of social codes, and of the ways in which these codes might be re-thought and reshaped. The exhibition comes at a time when debates about community diversity and cohesion -- and the role art might play in developing such connections -- are prominent. In addition, recent interest in art therapy, and in forms of creative mindfulness which attend to the present moment, speak to a public need to utilize art in order to foster mental and physical health. Both the exhibition and public programme aim to respond to this need. The underlying motivation of the project is to explore the ongoing legacy of Lear's work by inviting audiences to consider how he speaks from his moment to ours.