Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some really striking paintings, thanks for expanding my horizons! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 9 Feb 2019, at 03:40, 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