Time to use the Buddy system that we were assigned a couple days ago! In my mind, I wanted to do more than what we could do – I wanted to go to the Phoenix Park, An Post Museum, and Famine Memorial. However, we have to remember that museums close around 5. Also, today's weather didn't encourage me to be outside; it was cold and raining. At the end, Austin and I decided to go to the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane that was just around the corner from our hotel. Kevie and I wanted to give it a visit and we never had a chance to do so. I guess today was meant to be for Hugh Lane Gallery with this kind of weather. On top of that, everybody was very tired, which was somewhat weird in a way because we didn't have to wake up that early nor did we have a full and packed day.
The admission to the museum was free. There were two floors worth of galleries. There were different artists and different types of art, and some of them caught my eyes. One of them was Francis Bacon and his works. His art was drawn which had (I think) more than enough strokes which made his drawings look almost like there is no certain shapes and forms.
Francis Bacon was an Anglo-Irish painter. He was born on October 8, 1909 and died on April 18, 1992. His figurative work is renowned for its boldness and barrenness that contained an unfiltered visceral intensity. It was common to see many isolated and abstract figures in his paintings. It was hard for him to find a subject that he was truly interested in, so even though his art career started in early age, his career as a painter stalled. On April 18, 1992, Francis Bacon died of cardiac arrest that was a complication of his asthma.
I was also interested in why this gallery was called Hugh Lane Gallery. There was a person named Sir Hugh Lane (1875 - 1915) who was known as an art dealer and collector. In 1893 he gained his first position through his aunt, Lady Augusta Gregory, working for an art dealer. He continued in this area until February 1898 when he opened his own gallery at 2 Pall Mall Place. There, he further developed his talent for spotting a bargain. He devoted his life to establishing a gallery and a collection of modern and contemporary art worthy of the city of Dublin. This Hugh Lane Gallery can be claimed to be the first public museum of modern art in the world. He was so fascinated by the Irish art scene at the beginning of the 20th century that Sir Hugh founded the Municipal Gallery Of Modern Art in Dublin in 1908. The original gallery was located off St. Stephens Green in Harcourt Street and has since been re-named and moved to Charlemont House, the opulent Georgian town house of the Earl Of Charlemont on Parnell Square at the top of O'Connell Street.
http://www.egs.edu/library/francis-bacon-artist/biography/ http://www.nationalgallery.ie/aboutus/History/NGI_Directors/Sir_Hugh_Lane.aspx http://www.dublin.info/hugh-lane-gallery/
The admission to the museum was free. There were two floors worth of galleries. There were different artists and different types of art, and some of them caught my eyes. One of them was Francis Bacon and his works. His art was drawn which had (I think) more than enough strokes which made his drawings look almost like there is no certain shapes and forms.
Francis Bacon was an Anglo-Irish painter. He was born on October 8, 1909 and died on April 18, 1992. His figurative work is renowned for its boldness and barrenness that contained an unfiltered visceral intensity. It was common to see many isolated and abstract figures in his paintings. It was hard for him to find a subject that he was truly interested in, so even though his art career started in early age, his career as a painter stalled. On April 18, 1992, Francis Bacon died of cardiac arrest that was a complication of his asthma.
I was also interested in why this gallery was called Hugh Lane Gallery. There was a person named Sir Hugh Lane (1875 - 1915) who was known as an art dealer and collector. In 1893 he gained his first position through his aunt, Lady Augusta Gregory, working for an art dealer. He continued in this area until February 1898 when he opened his own gallery at 2 Pall Mall Place. There, he further developed his talent for spotting a bargain. He devoted his life to establishing a gallery and a collection of modern and contemporary art worthy of the city of Dublin. This Hugh Lane Gallery can be claimed to be the first public museum of modern art in the world. He was so fascinated by the Irish art scene at the beginning of the 20th century that Sir Hugh founded the Municipal Gallery Of Modern Art in Dublin in 1908. The original gallery was located off St. Stephens Green in Harcourt Street and has since been re-named and moved to Charlemont House, the opulent Georgian town house of the Earl Of Charlemont on Parnell Square at the top of O'Connell Street.
http://www.egs.edu/library/francis-bacon-artist/biography/ http://www.nationalgallery.ie/aboutus/History/NGI_Directors/Sir_Hugh_Lane.aspx http://www.dublin.info/hugh-lane-gallery/