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Irish illustrators
Illustrators from Northern Ireland, Irish comics artists, Jack Butler Yeats, Harry Clarke, Patrick Swift, Mildred Anne Butler, Rose Maynard Barton, John Doyle, Tomm Moore, P. J. Lynch, Declan Shalvey, George Morrow, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Illustrators
ISBN/EAN: 9781157106883
Umbreit-Nr.: 3420387
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 24 S.
Format in cm: 0.2 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 24.01.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Illustrators from Northern Ireland, Irish comics artists, Jack Butler Yeats, Harry Clarke, Patrick Swift, Mildred Anne Butler, Rose Maynard Barton, John Doyle, Tomm Moore, P. J. Lynch, Declan Shalvey, George Morrow, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Bob Byrne, Jim Fitzpatrick, Beatrice Elvery, John Laporte, Dermot Power, Jon Berkeley, Norah McGuinness, Gerry Hunt, Archie Templar, Francis S. Walker, Albert Morrow, Jack Morrow, W. H. Conn, Joseph W. Carey, Paddy Brennan, William Henry Brooke. Excerpt: Patrick Swift (1927-1983) was an artist born in Dublin, Ireland. Patrick Swift was a painter and key cultural figure in Dublin and London before moving to the Algarve in southern Portugal, where he is buried in the town of Porches. He used the pseudonym James Mahon for some of his writing. In Dublin, Swift was part of the Envoy arts review / McDaid's pub circle of artistic and literary figures that included Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Brendan Behan, et al. In London he was an integral member of the Soho set that included George Barker, Elizabeth Smart, et al, and founded and co-edited, with the poet David Wright, the legendary 'X' magazine which Swift used to champion figurative painters such as Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Craigie Aitchison and David Bomberg (whose posthumous papers Swift unearthed & edited). In Portugal he continued painting while also writing and illustrating books on Portugal and founding Porches Pottery, which revived a dying industry. During his career Swift only held two solo exhibitions: Dublin in 1952 and Lisbon in 1974. His first exhibition at the Waddington Gallery in 1952 was highly acclaimed. For Swift, however, his art seems to have been a very personal and private matter. David Wright recalled finding him actively hiding his work because he was expecting a millionaire art collector to visit. Distrusting publicity, he avoided exhibitions and his work was rarely shown. By his death in 1983 Swift, save for his intimate friends, had been forgotten by the art world. Most thought that he had long since stopped painting. In 1993 the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) held a retrospective of Swift's work. The exhibition received critical acclaim, with fellow artists such as Derek Hill (Irish Times, 24 January 1994) declaring Swift to be "probably the most formidable Irish artist of this century". Although he commented on art and was intimate with many leading artists of his day, Swift never affiliated