Newgrange: Entrance slab with megalithic art. Ireland 5,200 years ago.

The early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period. During the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, a strong indigenous tradition of painting emerged, including such figures as John Butler Yeats, William Orpen and Jack Yeats. Image File history File links The entrance slab to Newgrange tomb, Ireland File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links The entrance slab to Newgrange tomb, Ireland File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Newgrange, which is located at , is one of the passage tombs of the Brú na Bóinne complex in County Meath, and the most famous of all Irish prehistoric sites. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... GOLD refers to one of the following: GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade). ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... John Butler Yeats (Born Tullylish 16 March 1839, died 3 February 1922) was an Irish artist and the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. ... Self Portrait, circa 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish artist who wrote and illustrated for books and magazines. ...

Ireland's best known living artists include Louis le Brocquy, a figurative painter and print maker, Sean Scully an abstract expressionist who lives and works in New York, Dorothy Cross, a sculptor and filmmaker and James Coleman, an installation and video artist. Louis le Brocquy (born November 10, 1916) is an Irish painter. ... Sean Scully (born 1945) is an Irish-born American painter and has twice been a Turner Prize nominee. ... This article is about the state. ... Dorothy Cross (born 1956) is an artist. ... James Coleman born in Ballaghadereen, Co. ...

Interest in collecting Irish art has expanded rapidly with the economic expansion of the country, primarily focussing on investment in early twentieth century painters. Support for young Irish artists is still relatively minor compared to their European counterparts, as the Arts Council's focus has been on improving infrastructure and professionalism in venues. That said, Ireland's unique tax break for creative artists (writers, visual artists and composers) has encouraged a wide community of artists to remain in Ireland. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

Early Irish art

The Tara Brooch. ...

Celtic art

Main article: Celtic art

In Ireland an unbroken Celtic heritage existed from before and through the Roman period in Britain, which had never reached the island, and thus the 5th to 7th centuries were mainly a continuation of the late Iron Age La Tène traditions, with only some minor Roman influences. In the 7th and 8th centuries Irish art mixed with Germanic traditions through Irish missionary contacts with the Anglo-Saxons, creating what is called Insular art (or the Hiberno-Saxon style) and such masterpieces as the Book of Kells, the Ardagh Chalice and the Tara Brooch. Later in the period Scandinavian influences were added through the Vikings, then original Celtic work came to an end with the Norman invasion in 1169-1170 and subsequent introduction of Romanesque art. Muiredacha Cross. ... This article is about the European people. ... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... The La Tène culture was an Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. ... For other uses, see Anglo-Saxon. ... This page (folio 292r) of the Book of Kells contains the lavishly decorated text that opens the Gospel of John. ... This page (folio 292r) contains the lavishly decorated text that opens the Gospel of John. ... The Ardagh Chalice, which ranks with the Book of Kells as one of the finest known works of Celtic art, is thought to have been made in the 9th century AD. A large, two-handled silver cup, decorated with gold, gilt bronze, brass, lead pewter and enamel, assembled from 354... The Tara Brooch. ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ... Norman conquests in red. ... Events Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din. ... December 29: Assassination of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury cathedral City of Dublin captured by the Normans According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailed to North America and founded a colony. ... Interior of the Saint-Saturnin church St-Sernin, Toulouse, 1080 – 1120: elevation of the east end Romanesque sculpture, cloister of St. ...

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Early Irish masters

• Garret Morphey
• Robert Carver
• George Barrett, Sr.
• James Barry

Portrait of a lady, known as Lady Fortescue of Credan, County Waterford. ... An Arcadian Landscape with Travellers and Herdsmen in the Distance, Oil on canvas, 37 x 48¼ in, 94 x 122. ... George Barrett, Sr. ... James Barry (1741-1806), Irish-English painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture. ...

The Irish impressionists

• Henry Jones Thaddeus
• Roderic O'Conor
• Walter Osborne

La retour du bracconier (The Wounded Poacher), 1881 - Oil on canvas - reappeared in the 1984 Irish Impressionists exhibition and was purchased by the National Gallery of Ireland Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859-1929) was a realist and portrait painter born and trained in County Cork, Ireland. ... Roderic OConor (1860-1940) Born in Roscommon Ireland, O’Conor studied at Ampleforth College and Dublin and Antwerp before moving to Paris where he was deeply influenced by the Impressionists. ... On Suffolk Sands, 1887 - Oil on canvas 10 x 12 - The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Shades of Light, June 2005 - Ref. ...

The Irish landscape

• Augustus Nicholas Burke
• Susanna Drury
• Paul Henry

Augustus Nicholas Burke Born July 28, 1838 _ Died 1891) was an artist and a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) He was the sixth son of William Burke of Knocknagur. ... Susanna Drury, later Susanna Warter[1] (c. ... Paul Henry (Born in Belfast 1876, died 1958) was an Irish artist who painted the west of Ireland landscape with a spare post-impressionist style. ...

The Academy

• Sarah Purser
• John Lavery
• William Orpen
• Daniel Maclise

Sarah Purser (March 22, 1848 - August 7, 1943) was an Irish artist. ... Mrs Lavery sketching, 1910, National Gallery of Australia. ... Self Portrait, circa 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... A detail of the engraving of Maclises 1842 painting The Play-scene in Hamlet, portraying the moment when the guilt of Claudius is revealed. ...

Jack Yeats

• Jack Yeats

Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish artist who wrote and illustrated for books and magazines. ...

Social realism

• Sean Keating

Seán Keating (Born John Keating, Limerick 1889, died Dublin 1977) was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the insurrectionary period and of the early industrialization of Ireland. ...

The Stainglass movement

• Harry Clarke
• Evie Hone

A Harry Clarke window Over £1 million was spent in 1922 commissioning a set of Harry Clarke window in the Presentation Sisters convent on Green Street, Dingle. ... Evie Hone (Born Dublin 1894, died 1955) was an Irish painter and stain glass artist. ...

Modern art

Modernism

• Mainie Jellett
• The White Stag group
• The Exhibition of Living Art
• Louis le Brocquy
• Patrick Scott
• John Kingerlee

Mary Harriet Jellett, known as Mainie Jellett, (born Dublin 1897, died Dublin 1944) was an Irish painter whose Decoration (1923) was among the first abstract painting shown in Ireland when it was exhibited at the Society of Dublin Painters Group Show in 1923. ... The White Stag Group was a group of artists centered around the painters Basil Rakoczi and Kenneth Hall. ... Louis le Brocquy (born November 10, 1916) is an Irish painter. ... Patrick Scott (born 1921 in Kilbrittain, County Cork) is an Irish artist. ... John Kingerlee (born 1936) is an Irish artist currently living on the Beara peninsula, in west Cork. ...

Abstact expressionism

• Charles Brady
• Tony O'Malley
• Nano Reid

Tony OMalley (1913-2003) was a self-taught Irish painter. ... Nano Reid (Drogheda, 1905 - 1981) was an Irish painter. ...

The northern artists

• William Scott
• Neil Shawcross
• Colin Middleton

William Scott is the name of several different people, including: William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, English eccentric; U.S. Representative William Scott of Virginia, whom the magazine New Times reported in 1974 had been voted Dumbest Congressman by his peers; Scott held a press conference to deny... Neil Shawcross (March 15, 1940) is an Irish artist born in Kersley, England. ... Colin Middleton (1910 in Belfast - 1983 in Dublin) was an Irish artist and surrealist. ...

Politics

• Robert Ballagh
• Willie Doherty
• Patrick Ireland

Robert Ballagh (born 1943) is an Irish artist. ... Willie Doherty (born 1959) is an Irish artist. ... Patrick Ireland is an Irish conceptual and installation artist. ...

Public art

• Edward Delaney
• John Coll
• John Behan
• Rachel Joynt

Edward Delaney is an Irish sculptor born in Claremorris in County Mayo in 1930. ... John Coll appeared regularly on the television program Micro Live and was closely involved in the development of the BBC Micro with Acorn Computers. ... John Behans The Mariner which is on Dublins North Wall Quay John Behan (born 1938) is an Irish sculptor from Dublin. ... Rachel Joynt (Born 1966 in County Kerry) is an Irish sculptor who has created some prominant Irish public art. ...

Contemporary art

• Dorothy Cross
• James Coleman
• Amanda Coogan
• Fergus Feehily

Dorothy Cross (born 1956) is an artist. ... James Coleman, born in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon in 1941, is an Irish installation and video artist associated with slide-tape works: sequences of still images fading one into the other with synchronized sound. ... Amanda Coogan is an Irish artist born in Dublin in 1971, living and working in Dublin and Berlin. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...

See also

• List of Irish artists

This is a list of visual artists born or working mainly in Ireland along with a list of critics, collectors and curators who have had an influence on Irish visual arts. ...

References

• Bruce Arnold (1977). Irish Art: A Concise History. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20148-X

External links

• The Irish Arts Council
• The National Irish Visual Arts Library
• www.irishabroad.com A series of essays on Irish art.
• www.modernart.ie Irish Museum of Modern Art.
• Commercial online art gallery specializing in Irish Art
• FREE directory for Irish Artists and Art Galleries
• Online Irish Art Competition
• Irish Contemporary Artists
• Irish Landscapes - paintings and prints on canvas