The Outline of Art -


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THE OUTLINE OF ART - BY WILLIAM ORPEN - UNQUESTIONABLY the two greatest English painters of landscape, and probably the two greatest English painters of any kind, were Turner and Constable, who were born within a year of one another. Turner, as we saw in the last chapter, amassed a large fortune Constable, on the other hand, could hardly earn a bare living, and not until 1814, when the artist was thirty-eight, did he sell a picture to any but his own personal friends. How was it that, from a worldly point of view, Coilstable failed where Turner succeeded Thc explaination is to be found in the totally different character of thc landscapes painted by these two artists. Turner, as Claude had done before him, made frequent use of llorninal subjects as an excuse for his pictures of Nature there was a dramatic element in lis art which appealed to the popular imagination, and even when, as in many of his later works, people found difficulty in apprchending thc cleincnts of his style, they werc insensibly affected by tlie splendour of his colour and brought to adillit that these pictures, if difficult to understand, were paintings in the grand style. Constable never made use of fictitious subjects and titles as an excuse for painting landscapes......




An Onlooker in France 1917-1919


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Onlooker in France 1917-1919" by William Sir Orpen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.




The Happy Hypocrite


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Studio Lives


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By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture - occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones. In doing so, it shows them coming to terms with the past, and inventing different modes of being modern, collaborating with architects and influencing the modernist style. In its scrutiny of the physical surroundings of artistic life during this period, the book sheds insight into how the studio environment articulated personal values, artistic affinities and professional aspirations. Not only does it consider the studio in terms of architectural design, but also in the light of the artist's work and life in the studio, and the market for contemporary art. By showing how artists navigated the volatile market for contemporary art during a troubled time, the book provides a new perspective on British art.




William Orpen


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Orpen, Mirror to an Age


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The Orpen family


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Great Irish Artists


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This book introduces 15 of Ireland's most interesting painters and reproduces a selection of their work.




Dictionary of Irish Artists


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This comprehensive, major reference work contains entries for some 500 artists including Paul Henry, Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett, Sir John Lavery, Sir William Orpen, Jack B. Yeats & his father, John Butler Yeats.




The Great War in Portraits


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In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and selfless endeavour were qualified by disaster and suffering, and examines the notion of identity - how various individuals associated with the war were represented and perceived. The narrative is structured chronologically, with thematic sections devoted to conflicting pairs - 'Royalty and the Assassin', 'Leaders and Followers', 'The Valiant and the Damned' - which reveal the radical differences between those caught up in the conflict in terms of their respective roles, aspirations, experiences, and, ultimately, their destinies. 'Leaders and Followers', for example, examines the dichotomy between the representation of senior military leaders such as Blumer, Foch, Haig and Hindenburg, who were responsible for directing the war, and that of the ordinary soldiers charged with executing it. While portraits of the generals emphasise their personal profile, gallantry and the trappings of military power, paintings of the rank and file are characterised by a tendency to anonymity, in which individual identity was subsumed with the impression of 'types'. Claude Rogers's imposing painting Gassed, for instance, presented the individual soldier as a kind of cipher, a depersonalised embodiment of common, degraded experience. Illustrated throughout with images both well known and less familiar, the book concludes with a section entitled 'Tradition and the Avant-Garde', which focuses on the struggle artists faced in finding an appropriate language in which to depict those who had experienced the unimaginable horror at the front: either by resorting to the steadying hand of tradition or a radical visual language of expressive distortion.