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(Louis le Brocquy belongs to a category of artists who have always existed obsessed by figuration outside and on the other side of illustration who are aware of the vast and potent possibilities of inventing ways by which fact and ' appearance can be reconjugated.
Francis Bacon
The career of Louis le Brocquy, Ireland's most distinguished living painter, spans forty years of creative work including drawing, graphics, tapestry and design. The phases of his development are profusely illustrated in this definitive study.
After an early period of self-training among the great European collections le Brocquy returned to Dublin during the war years, participating in the new Living Art Exhibition and executing a series of paintings on the life of the travelling people. In London after the war he evolved an austere personal style, using greys, blacks and whites to convey large-scale dramatic images of human isolation. At this time also he began his longstanding involvement with tapestry, using techniques influenced by Jean Lurgat. Encountering the dazzling light of Spain while travelling on a design commission, le Brocquy embarked in the mid-Fifties on a series of white-saturated paintings, moving gradually towards the evocation of a single human presence.
In 1963, a crisis of creative aridity was finally resolved by the artist's rediscovery of the ancient Celtic head-image, a cult of the human head as a magic box containing the spirit.)
Francis Bacon
The career of Louis le Brocquy, Ireland's most distinguished living painter, spans forty years of creative work including drawing, graphics, tapestry and design. The phases of his development are profusely illustrated in this definitive study.
After an early period of self-training among the great European collections le Brocquy returned to Dublin during the war years, participating in the new Living Art Exhibition and executing a series of paintings on the life of the travelling people. In London after the war he evolved an austere personal style, using greys, blacks and whites to convey large-scale dramatic images of human isolation. At this time also he began his longstanding involvement with tapestry, using techniques influenced by Jean Lurgat. Encountering the dazzling light of Spain while travelling on a design commission, le Brocquy embarked in the mid-Fifties on a series of white-saturated paintings, moving gradually towards the evocation of a single human presence.
In 1963, a crisis of creative aridity was finally resolved by the artist's rediscovery of the ancient Celtic head-image, a cult of the human head as a magic box containing the spirit.)
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- PublisherWard River Press
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 090708513X
- ISBN 13 9780907085133
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages168
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