Augustus John
Ever since he left the Slade School, portraiture was the main focus of Augustus John's work. Notorious for his appreciation of female beauty, John's the portraits of the women in his life are famously sentimental. This stunning young beauty, Diana Clements, is mesmerising with her intense sparkling dark eyes, flushed cheeks, voluptuous mouth and torrents of hair falling in waves on to her shoulders. Michael Holroyd observed in his biography of the artist that by the 1920s, Everyone wanted to be young. People had grown weary of big guns, big phrases; they needed to forget, not just the war but those feigned ideals that had gone down in it. .....No longer did people take up their hair, they let it down. This portrait truly captures this sentiment.
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