Irish Arts Review

LimerickSource: Irish Arts Review (1984-1987), Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), p. 55Published by: Irish Arts ReviewStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20491623 .

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IRISH ARTS REVIEW

EXHIBITIONS

for this artist, and have their own appeal for the visually disciplined.

It is an exhibition to be seen for a mastery of technique and very refined nuances within its own sphere of activity which give Patrick Scott his place in modern Irish art.

Charles O'Hara

TATE GALLERY * LONDON

THE PRE-RAPHAELITES

While Pre-Raphaelitism enjoys the repu tation of having been an exciting, new, challenging, and even progressive move ment, the overall impression gained from the Tate's comprehensive exhibi tion which closed on May 28th, is that the movement was certainly not esoteric and it was not specialized. One remains with the impression that the popularity of Pre-Raphaelite paintings may lie in their. being intellectually undemanding and uncomplicatedly pictorial, as well as being enhanced by the romantic lives of their painters.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM - LONDON

ROCOCO: ART AND DESIGN IN HOGARTH'S ENGLAND

Anyone unable to get to London to see this exhibition should at least purchase the splendid, informative, 336-page illustrated catalogue.

The exhibition which enjoyed the sponsorship of Trusthouse Forte com prises five hundred items, more than a few of which are magnificent although not always imaginatively displayed. The range of exhibits includes furniture, paintings, ceramics, costume, clocks, silver, textiles, sculpture, engravings, architectural drawings, arms and armour; together these exhibits illustrate how the exuberance of Rococo which reached excessive extremes in Austria and Germany was tamed, restrained and adapted in England to suit English taste without losing its graceful, elaborate and imaginative elegance.

Among the more impressive items are the several pieces of sculpture by

Roubiliac and especially his marble

statue of Handel, Hogarth's self-portrait with his pug, the wine cooler by the silversmith Paul Crespin (1694-1770) from the collection of the Duke of

Marlborough and a miniature cabinet (circa 1760) by James Cox. A very grand lacquered serpentine front commode

with ornate ormolu corner mounts attri buted to Pierre Langlois (circa 1760) on loan from a private collection was sold in Ireland in 1964 as lot 304 at the auction of the contents of Kenure Park, Rush, Co. Dublin; according to the catalogue the pair to this commode is still in Ireland in a private collection.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART * NEW YORK

Having completed a four-year 55 million dollar building programme to double its gallery space and after a closure of four months for the final stages of refurbish ment and reorganization, the New York Museum of Modern Art reopened in May. A visit to the enlarged Museum is a thrilling experience. Cesar Pelli's design for the building is superb and the view through the glass walls to the sculpture garden and the city is stunning. The mammoth collection must, without question, be the most impressive in the world with sixty Picassos at its heart. Rooms are devoted to Cubism, to Dadaism, to Surrealism, to abstract Expressionism. One expects to find and finds, all spendidly displayed, the work of Cezanne, of Van Gogh, of Brancusi, of De Chirico, of Matisse and later, of Rothko, of Jackson Pollock, of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. One will look in vain, however, in the permanent collection, for contemporary landscape or examples of the latest trends in realism or photorealism.

EXHIBITION NOTES FERMANAGH COUNTY MUSEUM

Fermanagh County Museum has recently acquired two paintings by

William Scott. Louise, 1939, is an example of his early work when he was concerned with figure painting, and was painted in France where Scott and his wife lived from the autumn of 1937 until

the outbreak of war in 1939. Scott spent the summers at Pont-Aven in Brittany and his model for Louise was a Breton girl. At Pont-Aven Scott met many French painters and was deeply drawn into the world of French painting to

which he had been introduced at a young age by his teacher in Enniskillen, Miss Kathleen Bridle.

The painting Louise was shown at the artist's first one-man exhibition at the Leger Gallery in London in 1942 and exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1972. It was purchased at a cost of ?4,800 stg from the Crane Kalman Gallery in London by Fermanagh County Museum with the aid of grants from the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland and the National Hermitage Memorial Fund.

The second Scott painting, which was recently presented to the Museum by the Earl of Belmore, is an oil on canvas entitled White and Grey (2), painted in 1963 and abstract in style.

It was part of a collection of Scott paintings belonging to Sir John Heygate of Bellarena, Co. Antrim, recently purchased by the Ulster Museum. With the agreement of the trustees of the

Ulster Museum the painting was purchased by the Earl of Belmore and donated to Fermanagh County Museum.

LIMERICK

The Limerick Contemporary Art Society founded in 1983 to stimulate and main tain local interest in contemporary development in the visual arts by annual purchase for the collections has already acquired works by Barrie Cooke, Anne Brennan, Mairead Tobin, Cecil King and Maurice Quillinan from exhibitions held

in Limerick. It is intended to put together an initial collection consisting of approximately 30 pieces and then this collection will be presented to a public building on permanent loan and public display. The committee is at present negotiating the placing of the works in the current collection in a temporary venue. Information about the society is available from its secretary/treasurer, Samuel Walsh, Ballymacreese, Bally neety, Coo Limerick.

NATIONAL ART.COLLECTIONS FUND N.I. BRANCH

The National Art-Collections Fund has set up a new branch in Northern

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