26th March:6th Year Art History
Hi Class,Hope you are all keeping well.
I would like us to start looking at Irish Artist Harry Clarke, he was on the mock paper so could be a possibility in Exams. I have two very good clips from nationwide that I would like ye to look at,and I have some additional notes aswell for ye to read up on. Take some notes while watching !!
https://youtu.be/rzEBM6ilD_w
https://youtu.be/5AGKb82b8yg
Harry Clarke was born in Dublin in 1889. His father Joshua Clarke was a
church decorator and manufacturer of art, and had a successful business based at 33
North Frederick Street. The business included stained glass manufacturing. Harry
Clarke was apprenticed to his father at the age of seventeen; he attended classes in
stained glass art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, and later at the South
Kensington Schools of Design. He won scholarships to both the School of Art in
Dublin and South Kensington.
In 1913, when he was 24, he won the first prize in the Art Industries
Exhibition at the RDS for his panel “The Baptism of St Patrick”. In this year, he
began to do book illustrations. He received a commission to illustrate The Fairytales
of Hans Christian Andersen from George Harrap and also won a travelling
scholarship which enabled him to spend some months in Paris and other parts of
France in 1914.
In the autumn of 1914 he returned to Dublin and married Margaret
Crilly, also an artist. About this time he met Thomas Bodkin, a barrister with a
knowledge of art, who became his close friend, most supportive critic and who later
became director of the National Gallery in Dublin.
After their marriage Harry and Margaret Clarke were given a flat in the family
house in North Frederick Street by Joshua Clarke, who moved out to Shankill. Harry
Clarke lived in North Frederick Street for some years and his studio continued to be
based there. He and Margaret moved to Merrion Avenue eventually.
Harry Clarke prospered as both an artist in stained glass and a book
illustrator. In 1916, he completed a commission for windows for the Honan Chapel in
University College Cork; the installation of these windows established his reputation.
Harrap’s edition of the Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Clarke
was also published to critical acclaim during that year.
In 1925, the Irish government proposed that Harry Clarke should design and make a window to be presented to the League of Nations for the International Labour Building in Geneva, a window which has ever since been known as “The Geneva Window”.
For the Geneva window he used themes from Irish literature, and planned to
“work in panels for 15 Irish writers”. WB Yeats was extremely enthusiastic about the
window and made many suggestions. Eventually the window illustrated works by
Patrick Pearse, Lady Gregory, Synge, Seamus O’Sullivan, James Stephens, Sean O
Casey, Lennox Robinson, Yeats, AE, Liam O’Flaherty, Padraic Colum, George
Fitzmaurice, Seamus O’Kelly, and James Joyce: the panoply of great Irish writers of
the early 20th century.
Harry died after many years of ill health on January 6 1931 in Coire, Switzerland. He left a lasting impression on the art world, having created over 160 stained glass windows for church and commercial commissions, as well as a number of striking panels for private patrons. Even new generations are discovering Harry through his book illustrations (Costigan & Cullen, 2010). He created a unique style that has been described as part beautiful, part complicated, part unhealthy, but as a whole unwholesome and intricate. Gifted with colour and a genius with stained glass, Harry’s dreadfully short life deserves to be remembered (Gordon Bowe, 2012).
Can I recommend that you go online and VIEW some more of his work in more detail.
What I would like ye do then is the question that was on the mock paper.
Harry Clarke(1889-1931)was an Irish stained glass artist whose work shows beauty, creativity and the inherent possibilities og colour and line in a leaded frame.Discuss this statement with reference to ONE named work by Harry Clarke that you are fimiliar with.In your answer refer to theme, subject matter, style, materials, and techniques
AND
Briefly describe and discuss one other named stained glass work that you have studied.
Illustrate your answer.
I would like us to start looking at Irish Artist Harry Clarke, he was on the mock paper so could be a possibility in Exams. I have two very good clips from nationwide that I would like ye to look at,and I have some additional notes aswell for ye to read up on. Take some notes while watching !!
https://youtu.be/rzEBM6ilD_w
Harry Clarke was born in Dublin in 1889. His father Joshua Clarke was a
church decorator and manufacturer of art, and had a successful business based at 33
North Frederick Street. The business included stained glass manufacturing. Harry
Clarke was apprenticed to his father at the age of seventeen; he attended classes in
stained glass art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, and later at the South
Kensington Schools of Design. He won scholarships to both the School of Art in
Dublin and South Kensington.
In 1913, when he was 24, he won the first prize in the Art Industries
Exhibition at the RDS for his panel “The Baptism of St Patrick”. In this year, he
began to do book illustrations. He received a commission to illustrate The Fairytales
of Hans Christian Andersen from George Harrap and also won a travelling
scholarship which enabled him to spend some months in Paris and other parts of
France in 1914.
In the autumn of 1914 he returned to Dublin and married Margaret
Crilly, also an artist. About this time he met Thomas Bodkin, a barrister with a
knowledge of art, who became his close friend, most supportive critic and who later
became director of the National Gallery in Dublin.
After their marriage Harry and Margaret Clarke were given a flat in the family
house in North Frederick Street by Joshua Clarke, who moved out to Shankill. Harry
Clarke lived in North Frederick Street for some years and his studio continued to be
based there. He and Margaret moved to Merrion Avenue eventually.
Harry Clarke prospered as both an artist in stained glass and a book
illustrator. In 1916, he completed a commission for windows for the Honan Chapel in
University College Cork; the installation of these windows established his reputation.
Harrap’s edition of the Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Clarke
was also published to critical acclaim during that year.
In 1925, the Irish government proposed that Harry Clarke should design and make a window to be presented to the League of Nations for the International Labour Building in Geneva, a window which has ever since been known as “The Geneva Window”.
For the Geneva window he used themes from Irish literature, and planned to
“work in panels for 15 Irish writers”. WB Yeats was extremely enthusiastic about the
window and made many suggestions. Eventually the window illustrated works by
Patrick Pearse, Lady Gregory, Synge, Seamus O’Sullivan, James Stephens, Sean O
Casey, Lennox Robinson, Yeats, AE, Liam O’Flaherty, Padraic Colum, George
Fitzmaurice, Seamus O’Kelly, and James Joyce: the panoply of great Irish writers of
the early 20th century.
Harry died after many years of ill health on January 6 1931 in Coire, Switzerland. He left a lasting impression on the art world, having created over 160 stained glass windows for church and commercial commissions, as well as a number of striking panels for private patrons. Even new generations are discovering Harry through his book illustrations (Costigan & Cullen, 2010). He created a unique style that has been described as part beautiful, part complicated, part unhealthy, but as a whole unwholesome and intricate. Gifted with colour and a genius with stained glass, Harry’s dreadfully short life deserves to be remembered (Gordon Bowe, 2012).
Can I recommend that you go online and VIEW some more of his work in more detail.
What I would like ye do then is the question that was on the mock paper.
Harry Clarke(1889-1931)was an Irish stained glass artist whose work shows beauty, creativity and the inherent possibilities og colour and line in a leaded frame.Discuss this statement with reference to ONE named work by Harry Clarke that you are fimiliar with.In your answer refer to theme, subject matter, style, materials, and techniques
AND
Briefly describe and discuss one other named stained glass work that you have studied.
Illustrate your answer.
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