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It is worth mentioning that the French influence on Irish artists appears more important in hindsight than it did to contemporaries. They may have not become aware of the importance of Paris until the twentieth century. Now it can be seen that the French influence contributed to the development of an 'Irish School'. The artists in this exhibit are just a small sample of what has been called 'Irish Impressionists'. Some artists like Walter Osborne and William John Leech acquired international reputations. Other artists were not widely known. The works shown in this exhibit attempt to capture samples of their entire life work, not all of which can be called 'impressionistic'. The common bond, however, is their early training in France and Belgium in the late nineteenth and early twientieth century. |
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Up until
the mid-nineteenth century, many Irish artists looked to England for their
training or their livelihood. But in the second half of the nineteenth,
and early twentieth centuries an increasing number of Irish artists went
to Paris to study. This was part of an international movement at the time,
Irish artists from Dublin, Belfast and the Irish countryside, gravitated
towards Paris and Antwerp, sometimes via London; from Antwerp to Paris or
Brittany; and from Paris to the artists' colonies in the Forest of Fontainebleau,
Brittany and Normandy, i.e. a general trend from city to country. In general
most Irish artists went abroad as individuals. After leaving France, a few
artist visited Italy, and many worked in England for a while before returning
home.
