Hungry People 1936 - 1972

Editor: This is "Hungry People," an etching by Julian Trevelyan, created in 1936. I'm struck by how dreamlike and symbolic it feels, a bit like a Klee painting. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It's a fantastic question! For me, it's a city as a state of mind, etched not just in metal, but into our collective anxieties of the '30s. Those stark geometric shapes – are they buildings, figures, or perhaps just yearnings given form? Does the scarcity of color create emotional hunger? Editor: So, the "hunger" isn't just literal? More of a spiritual or societal yearning? Curator: Precisely! Trevelyan offers us not a portrait, but a phantom limb – the ache of what's missing, rendered with unsettling beauty. Food for thought, indeed. Editor: That’s a perspective I hadn’t considered. Thanks!