The influence of Japanese Art on the Work of Irish Artist Louis le Brocquy with Specific Reference to Ukiyo-e Printing and the Art of Sumi-e Ink Printing

Chloe Rosalind Edwards
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland and Japan
Century: 20th Century

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In 1991, Louis le Brocquy reached a significant milestone in his career when he put on a touring exhibition in Japan entitled ‘Louis le Brocquy, Images Single and Multiple, 1957-1990’. The artist had his opening night in the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa (5th January-3rd February) before moving on the Hami City Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka (9th February-31st March) and finally, the City Museum of Contemporary Art in Hiroshima (6th April-12th May). By the largest exhibition by le Brocquy up until that point, the artist brought a collection of sixty three paintings, drawings and tapestries ranging from 1957-1990 including his ‘presences’ and head studies. This exhibition of his work in Japan confirmed the the impact of the art of Japan not only on him, but on much of the wider western world.

Irish Georgian Society

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The influence of Japanese Art on the Work of Irish Artist Louis le Brocquy with Specific Reference to Ukiyo-e Printing and the Art of Sumi-e Ink Printing