The triangle in question, which exists between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell, provides Parr with a typically down to earth subject.
This year, the seminars have more down-to-earth subjects, like survival.
He argued that Nasa's billions "would be better spent on tackling more down-to-earth subjects", pointing out that it would cost only £4bn a year to provide the world with clean water and save the lives of more than two million people.
But Ms. Uberoi's straight-shooting style is a perfect match for her salt-of-the-earth subject, a hard-working husband and father with more on his plate than most.
Here too are later paintings of entertainers, dancers and clowns, the sort of popular, down-to-earth subject matter that Kuhn liked to call "buckeye" and others have seen as kitsch.
Wrapped up within are some knob gags and swipes at estate agents but even the more obvious and down-to-earth subject matter benefits from the tension or friction that Watson works up.
Instead he became a master of blushing pinks and icy blues, as seen in "Portrait of the Artist as a Clown (Kansas)," and a champion of the sort of popular, down-to-earth subject matter he liked to call "buckeye" — subject matter that would, in the end, define him.
A rather simplified treatment of the face in the early "Self Portrait With Flute" contrasts with his later, more nuanced style, but it suits the cartoonlike anecdotal character that he inserted into work that blended a straightforward technique with a down-to-earth subject matter.
"I'm just a bit lonely tonight and looking to hang"; "Just bored"; "just want to meet cool people that are fun and down to earth," his subjects write.
So, one imagines, did the paintings' down-to-earth, everyday subject matter.
Virtually everything on earth is subject to low levels of radiation from naturally occurring radioactive materials.
