Tomas O'Maoldomhnaigh
Irish Figurative Artist, Portrait Painter: Contemporary Realist Style: Biography, Paintings.
Not exact matches
Francis Bacon (1909 — 1992), the
Irish - born British
figurative artist, is considered a major figure of 20th - century art.
Chloe Early, Chloe, Early, Painter, contemporary,
Irish, Oil, Paintings,
Artist, London, aluminium panel,
Artist, Bricklane, East London, New York, Streetart, Art, Street,
Figurative, Female, Colourful, colorful, colour, vibrant, exhibition, lazarides, conor harrington,
The history of
Irish art in the twentieth century shows that landscape painting was closely entwined with
Irish nationalism and the search for an «
Irish» identity, although
artists pursued these ideas in quite individual ways: Jack B Yeats (1871 - 1957) through his intense expressionist landscapes populated by unmistakably
Irish figurative icons; Paul Henry (1876 - 1958) and James Humbert Craig (1878 - 1944) through their outstanding renderings of sky, sea, turf and light in their West of Ireland views.
The
Irish figurative painter and landscape
artist Martin Gale was born in Worcester, England, in 1949, but moved to Ireland at a very early age.
• For details of other
figurative landscape painters, see:
Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.
• For more about
figurative artists in Ireland like Stanhope Forbes, see:
Irish Art Guide.
Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin Royal Academy (RA), London
Irish Art, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RSPP), London United Society of
Artists, London Represented Ireland, Expo «92, Seville Hendricks Gallery, New York, USA An Oireachteas Ulster Arts Club Cork Arts Society Tulfarris Gallery, Wicklow Munster Fine Art Exhibition
Figurative Image Kenny Gallery, Galway IMMA, Glebe and Butler Galleries United Arts Club Group Taylor Galleries, Dublin Dolan Moore Gallery Trinity Gallery, London Austin Desmond Fine Art, London Fosse Gallery, London Swift Gallery, N. Ireland James Gallery, Dalkey Aer Rianta Arts Festival Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin Solomon Gallery, Dublin
Solomon Fine Art, established in 1981, is recognised as one of Ireland's leading contemporary art galleries and has built its outstanding reputation representing both
Irish and international
artists working in both
figurative and abstract styles.
For other important
Irish sculptors, read about the neo-classical John Hogan, the Anglo -
Irish John Henry Foley, the Romantic Nationalist Oliver Sheppard, the nationalist realist Albert Power, the small - scale sculptress Rosamund Praeger, the traditional stone sculptor Seamus Murphy, the Polish -
Irish sculptress Alexandra Wejchert, the contemporary steel sculptor Conor Fallon, the bird
artist Oisin Kelly, the public
artist Eamonn O'Doherty and the
figurative sculptor Rowan Gillespie.
Famous
Irish artists born in, or associated with, Wicklow include: George Campbell, (Still Life and Landscape
Artist); Lilian Lucy Davidson, (Landscape, Portrait and Genre Painter); Richard Kingston, (Landscape, Still Life and Flower Painter); Brian Maguire, (Expressionist Painter); Rasher (Mark Kavanagh)(Contemporary
Figurative and Still Life Painter); Camille Souter, (Landscape
Artist); Michael Cullen, (Modern
Artist); Damien Flood, (Contemporary Pop
Artist); Brian Henderson, (Contemporary Abstract
Artist); John Jobson, (Painter and Sculptor); Cecil King, (Abstract
Artist); Eoin O'Connor, (Contemporary Abstract Painter); Laurence O'Toole, (Contemporary
Figurative Painter, Landscape
Artist); Stanley Pettigrew, (Landscape
Artist and Illustrator); Yann Renard - Goulet, (Sculptor); Liam Treacy, (Impressionist Style Still Life and Landscape Painter); Mabel Young, (Landscape
Artist).
• For details of other
figurative painters, see:
Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.