Back to School time

Welcome back to all for the new school year. Art for First and Second years and TYs starts back on Tuesday 6th September from 4.10 to 5.30 and for Third and Fourth years and Leaving Certs on Wednesday 7th September from 2.50 to 5.30. See you then.

New Creativity Centre opening in Ardagh

Ardagh Heritage and Creativity Centre is opening with a Family Fun Day on 20th August. Free workshops are being held all during Heritage Week from 22nd to 26th August. See www.creativeardagh.com for full details.

100 objects continues

www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0625/1224299565883.html

Keep an eye here over the summer for some more links, art history notes and some photos from the practical exams coming soon.

History of Ireland in 100 objects

I've posted links to some of these before, but here is the museum site that has links to all objects so far: http://www.museum.ie/en/info/100-objects.aspx
There's some very interesting objects including a 5000 year old handbag and 15m Bronze Age Canoe. They all give some background information for the early Irish art history section of the Leaving Cert paper.

Impressionism

The Leaving Cert art history exam is approaching fast so here are some links on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism which should help the revision. There's lots of information on smarthistory: smarthistory.org/impressionism-france.html smarthistory.org/post-impressionism.html
and artdocuwat.ch has a whole series on the Impressionists starting with Monet: art.docuwat.ch/videos/impressionists/impressionists-01-claude-monet/?channel_id=19&skip=0 Enjoy!

Just out of the kiln

Here's some of the work that came out of the kiln this week. It includes pieces from First Years to Leaving Certs and some experiments with glazes.

National Drawing Day

It's time for National Drawing Day again on 28th May. You can find details of all events here: www.nationalgallery.ie/en/Learning/Lifelong Learning and Courses/Drawing Courses/Drawing Day.aspx

and details of events close to Longford are here: www.solasart.ie/2011/05/national-drawing-day-2011/
and here: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Very-Small-Gallery/130975053640890

The Gleninsheen Gorget

The Gleninsheen Gorget is this week's addition to the history of Ireland in 100 objects. Check out the details here: www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0507/1224296351257.html

Bronze age hoard

There was an article in the Irish Times last week on a bronze age hoard which would be relevant for the Irish art history section. You can access it here: www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0430/1224295739750.html

Some inspiration for pottery

The Leaving Certs are now busy preparing for their practical exams. Here are a few links that I thought might be useful for the craft exam. For all you ever wanted to know about Louis le Brocquy try here: www.anne-madden.com/LeBPages/lebrocquy.html There's lots about Harry Clarke here: www.harryclarke.net Click on the windows tab at the top to browse images, you can zoom in on most of them. You can also browse the Harry Clarke collection at the National Gallery of Ireland here (search for Harry Clarke): onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie Information on Pauline Bewick is available here: www.paulinebewick.ie
I didn't find much on Cecil King but here are some links: www.imma.ie/en/page_170636.htm and from the Hugh Lane gallery online collection: emuseum.pointblank.ie/online_catalogue/artist-detail.php?id=6