Download or read book Sir William Orpen written by R. P. and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Orpen written by Robert Upstone and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Outline of Art written by William Orpen and published by Carveth Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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......

Download or read book An Onlooker in France 1917 1919 written by Sir William Orpen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sir William Orpen Artist Man By P G Konody Sidney Dark With Portraits written by Paul George KONODY and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Studio Lives written by Louise Campbell and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Happy Hypocrite written by Sir Max Beerbohm and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Orpen Mirror to an Age written by Bruce Arnold and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1981 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stories of Old Ireland Myself written by Sir William Orpen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Great War in Portraits written by Paul Moorhouse and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Richard Aldrich and the 19th Century French Painting written by Richard Aldrich and published by Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing abstraction, drawn or printed text, collage, sculptural effects and humorous figuration, the work of Richard Aldrich (born 1975) constitutes an index of possibilities in painting. Aldrich frequently integrates objects such as canvas scraps or book pages in his works, citing rather than deploying the idea of a picture plane, and also loads his works with literary and personal references. For his first solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Aldrich presents 20 large-scale works alongside paintings by Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard and the Irish portraitist Sir William Orpen, selected from the Museum's permanent collection. These three nineteenth-century artists have very little in common with Aldrich, and yet are ideally counterpointed against his paintings, refocusing the works of all four in fascinating ways. Published on the occasion of this exhibition, this volume records this exemplarily adventurous exhibition.

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Download or read book William Orpen an Outsider in France written by Caroline Gallois and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Orpen (1878-1931) was in 1917 appointed as an official war artist in France. He not only saw the Great War as a call to paint serious subject-matter—enabling him to break away from the constraints of society portraiture in London—but also as an opportunity to write. Orpen was commissioned, along with artists such as Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer and Wyndham Lewis, to paint for the Department of Information. He was the only war artist to keep a written record of his wartime experience, published in 1921 as An Onlooker in France. In his Preface, Orpen rather too modestly states: “This book must not be considered as a serious work on life in France behind the lines, it is merely an attempt to record some certain little incidents that occurred in my own life there.” This art-historical study is a companion to this “attempt”. It examines, within the context of the global crisis that WWI was, and from various theoretical, philosophical and literary angles, his singular and at times provocative work. Orpen set out to provide a textual and visual record of life on the Western Front, as well as behind the lines—of what was supposed to be the “War to End all Wars”. For want of being a “fighting man”, the non-combatant artist-writer determined to fight with his own arms, his pens and brushes.

Download or read book Sir William Orpen 1918 written by Alfred Yockney and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Correspondence continues from the previous year's file in relation to the two portraits of airmen, Rhys Davids and Hoidge, in particular requests for reproductions, and the question of whether Hoidge's name and details of his exploits could be mentioned. As Rhys Davids had been captain of Eton, the school requested a copy of the portrait, and Orpen agreed to produce a copy for Davids' family. (This had still not been carried out by August 1920 - see file /92, (165)). In a letter, Orpen states his intention to present all of his war commission work to the Imperial War Museum. However, there was subsequent confusion over whether Orpen was entitled to do so, as Masterman argued that the Ministry of Information had first choice over all of Orpen's output. Orpen returned to England for a time in April. Around this time, questions were raised over his paintings of 'The Spy', the identity of the subject and the circumstances of the story. Orpen's responses are somewhat evasive, and he describes the matter as "a ticklish business". In fact, the subject was his mistress, Yvonne Aubicq, and the pictures were later retitled 'The Refugee' (A) and (B). Plans were made for Orpen to go to Italy, but as events leading to the end of the war unfolded in France, it was agreed that he would stay there. He returned to France in July. The papers also relate to the Orpen exhibition at Agnew's, and the painting 'Some members of the Allied Press Camp' (IWM:ART 2971). Orpen was desperate to remain in France - "my native land"--And was willing to forego expenses, but there was some confusion on this subject. After the Armistice, arrangements were made for Orpen to paint the Versailles peace conference, which he was keen to do, although he also repeatedly urged Yockney to obtain the necessary permits for him to be able to document the entries into numerous liberated cities. The file also relates to numerous other portraits, including the First Chief Controller, QMAAC in France, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan CBE DSC (IWM:ART 3048).