IMMA trip

We had a very interesting trip to the Irish Museum of Modern Art last Wednesday, hopefully everyone enjoyed it as much as I did. As well as being valuable for the gallery question, most of what we saw is also on the course for the Irish section. We had a quick look around the Novak/O'Doherty collection before attending a lecture on the staging to the Moderns exhibition, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition. Covering the period from 1900 to around 1970 we saw a multi-disciplinary display including painting, sculpture, film, photography, literature, deisgn, architecture and music which aimed to contextualise all that was happening in Irish arts in the period. On show were art and artefacts from such names as Eileen Gray, Samuel Beckett, Jack B Yeats, WB Yeats, Mainie Jellet, Robert Ballagh, Patrick Ireland/Brian O'Doherty, Paul and Grace Henry, Louis le Brocquy, Anne Madden, Mary Swanzy, Michael Farrell, Michael Craig-Martin and many more. We couldn't take photos inside, but here are a few of the outdoor sculpture, buildings and surrounding: