Cork Art, Irish Visual Arts

See THOUSANDS of beautiful paintings and sculptures from ALL of Ireland's GREATEST visual artists... See Celtic La Tene Metalwork, The Book of Kells, High Cross Sculptures, and contemporary Irish art... See the GREATEST Old Masters of the Renaissance, Impressionism, Cubism, Pop-Art and LOTS MORE!!

Irish Art Scene
To learn about the history of visual art and culture in Munster, Connacht, Leinster and Ulster, and the artists associated with each of the 32 counties, as well as Cork and Dublin, click: Visual Arts in Ireland. Read about the major Irish art organizations, the work of the Arts Council and artist groups like Aosdana. Learn about the Irish art market in 2008.

Who's Who in Irish Art
We look at a range of famous Irish artists involved in traditional fine arts like painting and sculpture, as well as contemporary forms of expression, such as installation and video works. Read biographies of famous artists working in oils, acrylics and watercolours, like the expressionist Jack Butler Yeats, the academic portraitist William Orpen, the surrealist Francis Bacon, the still life master William Scott, and Louis le Brocquy, plus other great traditional painters - like Daniel Maclise, John Lavery, Roderic O'Conor, Walter Osborne, William Orpen, Paul Henry, Sean Keating - and 20th century moderns like Tony O'Malley, Gerard Dillon, William Crozier, Basil Blackshaw, Brian Ballard, Hughie O'Donoghue, Graham Knuttel, Donald Teskey, Francis Tansey and many more! We review Irish portrait artists, as well as Irish genre painters and landscape artists.

History of Irish Visual Arts
We trace the 10 stages in the history of Irish art, including the Stone Age engravings at Newgrange, the exquisite Celtic metalwork of the Iron and Bronze ages, the Book of Kells and High Cross sculpture of the early Christian era, the formation of more modern cultural institutions which fostered the growth of Irish painting and sculpture, such as the Royal Dublin Society, the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), the Irish Exhibition of Living Art (IELA), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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Cork Art
The Rebel County of Ireland is renowned for its internationally acclaimed painters and sculptors - see Cork Artists - as well as its festivals, galleries and other art venues. No wonder Cork City was named as a European Capital of Culture in 2005! For up to date details of cultural and artistic events in the city and county, see Cork Art News.

Irish Art Galleries & Museums
For information about the top public art museums, such as the National Gallery of Ireland, the National Museum of Ireland and the Hugh Lane Gallery, (to name but three), as well as the wide range of commercial galleries, the types of art and the artists they represent, see: Irish Art Galleries. COMING SOON... A new series on The Hermitage St Petersburg, The Louvre Paris, the Uffizi Florence, and more...

The World's Greatest Artists
For biographical details and paintings of the great European Old Masters such as Giotto, Jan Van Eyck, Roger Van Der Weyden, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Caravaggio, Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Goya and many more, see: Old Masters. For information about more modern artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre Renoir, Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Kandinsky, Picasso, Georges Braque, Salvador Dali, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and lots more, see: Famous Artists.

Irish and World Sculpture
For information about the works of 3-D artists in Ireland, such as the Anglo-Irish sculptor John Foley, the neo-classical John Hogan, the Nationalist Oliver Sheppard, the 'Gaelic' sculptor Albert Power, the Surrealist FE McWilliam, the figurative sculptor Rowan Gillespie, and many others, see: Irish Sculpture. For the development of Greek sculpture, as well as works by Donatello (early Renaissance), Michelangelo (high Renaissance), Giovanni Bernini (Baroque) and Auguste Rodin (19th century), see Fine Art Sculpture.

History of Western Art
What is the earliest human work of art? Why is Greek art and the Italian Renaissance so important to Western culture? How does the Baroque style of art differ from Rococo? What is the meaning of academic art? What's the difference between Expressionism and Impressionism? What exactly is Cubism? For answers to all your questions about Western visual art - from the Classical heritage of ancient Greece to 21st century Post-Modernism - as well as thousands of wonderful examples of painting and sculpture, see History of Art.

The 5 Genres
What is a genre-painting? What exactly is a history painting? How did Dutch Realist painters hide messages inside their still life pictures? How did landscape painting develop? What sort of portrait art is associated with Picasso? Who was the greatest Impressionist landscape painter? For answers to these and all your questions about different styles of fine art, click: Painting Genres.

The Meaning of Art
What is Conceptual art? What on earth is a Happening? What is the finest example of ceramic or clay-based art? What are the 'plastic' arts? For answers to these and all your questions about different art-media, such as: Animation, Assemblage, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Collage, Conceptual Art, Drawing, Figure-Drawing, Happenings, Installations, Land art, Performance, Fine Art Painting, Figure-Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Public Art, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Video art, see Definition and Meaning of Art.

NEWS OF IRISH and WORLD ART!
For the latest news about famous painters and sculptors, art-auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's, major art exhibitions, controversial art books, as well as major news about art from Ireland, see: Irish Art News.

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