Fig. 7.12 (left)


The Man from Arranmore, c. 1905, by Jack B. Yeats, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin


Fig. 7.13 (above)


The Liffey Swim, 1923, by Jack B. Yeats, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin


arms in despair. The painting seems to be an anti- war statement (Fig. 7.14).


Composition


Our eye is led to the figure on horseback through the dark triangular group of figures in the left foreground. The mother and child on the right complete a pyramid with the rider at its top. The violent reds and yellows are in the top left half of the picture, while the lower right is mainly blues.


Colour


Colours are used in the Expressionist way to show emotion: blues for sorrow and reds and strong yellows to show more violent emotions.


Style


Yeats’s later work was Expressionist, where colour and brushwork are used to express ideas and emotions.


Stained glass art


An Túr Gloine (The Tower of Glass) was a co- operative stained glass studio set up in Dublin in 1910. The portrait painter Sarah Purser managed the studio, though she did not design many windows herself. Michael Healey (1873–1941), Catherine O’Brien (1881–1963) and Wilhelmina Geddes (1888–1955) were among the most important members of the group.


134 APPRECIATING ART: SECTION 1 Technique and materials


The thin underpainting shows through in many areas, overlaid with strong marks loaded with oil paint. He used a variety of tools, not just brushes, to apply paint. One can see the big gestures the artist made with the paint.


Influences


The closest artist in style to Yeats was his friend, the Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka.


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