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2. Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1989) was a major Irish-American painter who explored the sumptuousness of colour & shape. #IWD2018 #InternationalWomensDay
My room is a musty attic,
But it’s little window
Let’s in the stars.
Heaney (1936)
Bridget Reilly (b1931) invented Op Art - a whole genre devoted to exploring optical effects of colour & shape. Always a joy to see her work
Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was a pivotal artist in the return to traditional interest in the human figure. He did this on his own terms. He saw human flesh from a clinical perspective and documented it as meat - stripping away mystery & hierarchy
3. Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) was an Irish artist who inspired Gaugin & Van Gogh. His work preempted the post impressionists and was characterised by an engrossing love of the ooze & swerve of oil paint