We made it to the #EvieHone & #MainieJellett exhibition at the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social today - there are still 5 more days to catch it - don’t miss out - it’s 100 years since they were last exhibited together in #Dublin
A multicoloured abstract painting, showing a focal point in the centre with twists and turns of shapes emanating outward. The colours change at intersecting arcs and corneres, with blues, yellows, reds, greens, oranges and purples, all fairly dark in hue.
This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is abstract art, and who else to feature but #MainieJellett?
Born in Dublin, she studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and Westminster School of Art in London, later moving to Paris. By 1923 she was painting in a completely abstract, Cubist-inspired style.
Incredible that a Mainie Jellett has sold last week at Whytes Dublin for 210,000 euro!
My cousin Dulcibella Barton was friendly with Mainie, and from existing letters, I can assure you that she lived a simple life. The thought of her drawing these numbers is a waterfall.
#MainieJellett
Dublin can be heaven
@nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social #MainieJellett #EvieHone #TheArtOfFriendship #Spéirgorm
Happy Easter !
Currently on view in the #nationalgalleryofireland is this beautiful piece ‘the Ninth hour’ (1941) by #MainieJellett as part of the new exhibition’The Art of Friendship’ celebrating her work alongside contemporary #EvieHone #pictureoftheday #modernart #cubism #artoftheday #Easter
‘Freak pictures’: #Ireland ’s #art revolutionaries who were treated so badly one fled to a nunnery
They were artistic trailblazers, bringing #modernism to the then deeply conservative country. But #EvieHone and #MainieJellett faced huge hostility.
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