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He spent time in France & was open to influences. Later Matisse & Derain were his lodestars. He was at the Académie Julian (the main studio for foreigners in Paris). He went on to Brittany (1903). Paris (1901), Beach, Dublin (c1906) & Concarneau (c1903) & Blue Nets (c1903)
Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) was an Irish artist who began her career influenced by a number of styles. When she found her own she created images of raw abstract vehemence which outshone much of her male colleagues’ derivations
Gerard Dillon (1916-71) was a painter from Belfast & member of the Progressive Painters Group during the Emergency (1944). His subject was Ireland & friendship reflected through the gay male perspective (Self-portrait, 2nd Pic). An important painter.
For many years Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) has been held up by the Irish establishment as the greatest Irish painter. His abstract images & status as brother to WB Yeats meant his pictures were ‘safe’ for the de facto theocracy. The White Horse (1956)
Ireland’s greatest post-Impressionist painter was Roderic O’Conor. He was influential on a number of artists including Gaugin & it’s only in the past couple of decades his importance to Western European art has begun to be recognised.