BURNING MONK, 1968 Robert Ballagh (b.1943)
Signature: signed on reverse Medium: acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 71 by 218cm., 28 by 86in. Provenance: Provenance:The Little Theatre, Brown Thomas Dublin; Where purchased by the present owner; Loaned to The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham (2003-2010) Exhibited: Exhibited:The Little Theatre Brown Thomas Dublin, 1969 (the artist's very first exhibition); 'Robert Ballagh', Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 1968; 'Robert Ballagh, A Retrospective', RHA, Dublin, 15 September-22 October, 2006, no. 2 Literature: Literature:Carty, Ciaran and Kiberd, Declan, Robert Ballagh - Art and Designer, A Retrospective, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2006, p.34 (illustrated) In his overview on the work of Robert Ballagh Philip Vann reflects on the work of the artist from the late 1960s where he remarks on how, “…Ballagh’s attention was in two apparently disparate directi... ions – researching and contemplating great classical artists, and watching the state of national emergency unfolding in Northern Ireland as Civil Rights marchers were attacked by the B-Special police. Actually, there was no divergence at all in these two aspects, as Ballagh went on making a series of innovative paintings based on Goya’s The Third of May, David’s The Rape of the Sabines and Delacriox Liberty at the Barricades. Just as these late 18th and 19th century masterpieces convey thoughtful yet viscerally charged responses to contemporaneous political repression, so Ballagh’s Pop Art adaptations – with a stinging succinctness of their own… reflect his own response to events in his own time.” In the late 1960s the widespread news coverage in the western media of the self-sacrificing protests of Buddhist monks established the practice of self-immolations as a type of a political protest. These very public and dramatic demonstrations became fodder for contemporaneous reporters who latched on to the newsworthiness of the gruesome spectacle. Burning Monk is a precursor to the classical works. In it Ballagh’s comment on the media is clear and is conveyed through his modern realist style decorated with his typically iconic stamp. more
BURNING MONK, 1968 Robert Ballagh (b.1943)
Signature: signed on reverse Medium: acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 71 by 218cm., 28 by 86in. Provenance: Provenance:The Little Theatre, Brown Thomas Dublin; Where purchased by the present owner; Loaned to The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham (2003-2010) Exhibited: Exhibited:The Little Theatre Brown Thomas Dublin, 1969 (the artist's very first exhibition); 'Robert Ballagh', Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 1968; 'Robert Ballagh, A Retrospective', RHA, Dublin, 15 September-22 October, 2006, no. 2 Literature: Literature:Carty, Ciaran and Kiberd, Declan, Robert Ballagh - Art and Designer, A Retrospective, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2006, p.34 (illustrated) In his overview on the work of Robert Ballagh Philip Vann reflects on the work of the artist from the late 1960s where he remarks on how, “…Ballagh’s attention was in two apparently disparate directi... ions – researching and contemplating great classical artists, and watching the state of national emergency unfolding in Northern Ireland as Civil Rights marchers were attacked by the B-Special police. Actually, there was no divergence at all in these two aspects, as Ballagh went on making a series of innovative paintings based on Goya’s The Third of May, David’s The Rape of the Sabines and Delacriox Liberty at the Barricades. Just as these late 18th and 19th century masterpieces convey thoughtful yet viscerally charged responses to contemporaneous political repression, so Ballagh’s Pop Art adaptations – with a stinging succinctness of their own… reflect his own response to events in his own time.” In the late 1960s the widespread news coverage in the western media of the self-sacrificing protests of Buddhist monks established the practice of self-immolations as a type of a political protest. These very public and dramatic demonstrations became fodder for contemporaneous reporters who latched on to the newsworthiness of the gruesome spectacle. Burning Monk is a precursor to the classical works. In it Ballagh’s comment on the media is clear and is conveyed through his modern realist style decorated with his typically iconic stamp. more
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