Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Jayanand, thanks for commenting. Douglas On 09/02/2019 05:10, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > Wonderful stuff. TFS. > > That said, my favourite photograph is the second in your series. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 8:10 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > >> The Irish Museum of Modern Art is based at the old Royal Hospital at >> Kilmainham in Dublin. The building was constructed in 1684 and was >> modelled on the layout of Les Invalides in Paris. It's a wonderful >> exhibition space and my wife went there as part of her Culture group >> which has about twenty women in it. I was allowed to tag along as I was >> her driver and I'm distantly related - 5th cousin - to the pioneering >> Irish woman artist Mary Swanzy whose work was being given a >> retrospective. Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) also studied and worked in Paris >> and was quite eclectic with her many styles of painting. While the art >> world has seen the work of her contemporaries there - Picasso, Chagall, >> etc - shoot up in value, her works have stayed in the thousands, rather >> than the millions spent on her male fellows. >> >> There's a brief intro to her life and her work at this link on IMMA's >> Youtube channel >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049g-w9xK5o >> >> I took 17 images with my Fuji X100s and here they are. >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/IMMA+Dublin/IMMA+1_+side+entrance.jpg.html >> and click to the right to see the rest. All can be seen LARGE. >> >> Douglas >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >