Despite his significant influence, very few securely attributed works by him survive, consequently making the recently re-discovered River Landscape with a Group of Figures by a Waterfall an important and extremely rare masterpiece. Mullins was one of this small group of native-born Irish painters, active in Dublin in the 1760s and 1770s, who transformed the art world in Ireland. Yeats and Sean Keating in the South and John Lavery and William Conor in the North, his is one of the few 'household' names among the list of Irish painters. The Irish gentry’s taste for the classical played an important role in the development of the Irish landscape tradition through their patronage, such as the four signed upright Italianate landscapes which George Mullins painted for the Earl of Charlemont’s House at Marino in Clontarf, Dublin. PAUL HENRY: AN IRISH PORTRAIT Paul Henry (1876-1958) was one of the most influential artists to work in Ireland during the first decades of this century. Their tastes were classically defined and not only their houses, but the parklands themselves, were moulded and planted in imitation of Claude’s paintings and the landscapes of Italy. Irish art patrons such as the Earl of Milltown, the Earl of Charlemont and the Earl Bishop of Derry also set off on Grand Tours to collect pictures and objets d’art for their homes back in Ireland. Robert Crone, Wooded Classical Landscape, with Figures Relaxing and Gardening by a River. John Butts is an exemplary product of these Schools, whose work was much inspired by the Old Masters, and especially by Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa. In this way, the Italian Renaissance and Northern European Baroque and Rococo masters of landscape were presented to impressionable young Irishmen. The Schools were the medium through which young Irish students were introduced to Continental art, by means of copying original master prints, drawings and paintings. The Schools were close to the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris, in that instruction was mainly directed towards young tradesmen. Parliament encouraged art and industry by voting sums of money to the Dublin Society, and thus the State became involved in promoting art and industry in a manner close to the approach of Continental states. As patriotic consciousness was developing among the Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry, it resulted in the setting up of cultural organisations like the Dublin Society (1731) and the Royal Irish Academy (1755). "And then, I shared it with a few friends in my WhatsApp group who said they themselves actually learned something from it.One way was through Irish artists’ access to Netherlandish, French and Italian prints, drawings and paintings in the Dublin Society Schools’ collection. The Dublin artist Garret Morphy dominated portraiture in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. "I did it only with the intention of just for self-education," he said. Learning about what happened to Garner, Cooke began to create and share cartoons illustrating Garner's story, as well as other cases connected to police brutality and racism, on his Instagram page. While researching cases of police violence, he came across the story of Eric Garner, a Black man who was killed by Staten Island police in 2014. "It was a topic that I was very ignorant to and wanted to learn more about it," Cooke said. As a white man who lived thousands of miles away from the ongoing protests, the racial reckoning gave him the chance to educate himself about why police brutality had been dominating headlines. That included the Irish illustrator Pan Cooke. was grappling with questions of race and justice, the rest of the world looked on, too. 7 in Memphis, Tenn.Īfter Minneapolis police killed George Floyd in the summer of 2020, the entire United States watched as protests against police brutality rocked cities from coast to coast. Here, one of his latest strips tells the story of the beating death of Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. Irish artist Pan Cooke combines his love of graphic storytelling with a passion for education and advocacy to create comic strips highlighting prominent cases of police violence.
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