Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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