Anne Madden A Modernist Approach to Mythology

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Anne Madden A Modernist Approach to Mythology

Mary Richmond

Trinity College Dublin

Department of History of Art and Architecture

2012

Subject: Painting

Country: Ireland

Period: 20th and 21st Century

This thesis focuses on the artist Anne Madden and in particular, on her modernist approach to themes of classical mythology. This is conveyed by her landscapes of ancient sites in the west of Ireland, from the early 1960s. It is also apparent in her series of works on classical mythological themes in the 1980s and 1990s. The thesis consists of an overview of the theme of classical mythology in twentieth-century art, and addresses the approaches to themes of myth in Irish art. It examines the Irish modernist artists who were prominent in the twentieth-century, combined with international modernist movements, who were influential in the career of Anne Madden. Finally, it focuses on Anne Madden’s mythological works, which comprise of her first approach to classical mythology in the mid-1980s in such themes as Dedalus and Icarus, the Odyssey and Aurealis Burealis series

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Anne Madden A Modernist Approach to Mythology