On this episode we are visiting Dublin-Ireland and following that we will be showcasing some of the most famous impressionist painters with your host Michael Kourosh.

 

         

 

Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range.

 

     

 

A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century^, followed by the Vikings. As the Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland’s principal settlement by the 12th century.

 

The Library of Trinity College Dublin serves Trinity College and the University of Dublin.

The Library is the permanent home to the Brian Boru harp which is a national symbol of Ireland, a copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, and the Book of Kells. One of the four volumes of the Book of Kells is on public display at any given time

 

Impressionism

Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life.

Oscar-Claude Monet

    

(14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting.

 

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

                                                                                 

 

 

Edgar Degas

   

 (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist. He is famous for his paintings and sculptures: he was one of those who started Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.

 

 

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

      

(May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and print-maker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh‘s North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.