My favourite painting..

Jack B Yeats ‘Men of Destiny’. I don’tknow anything about this painting. I cant even tell you where I came about it. I did study art at school, so I am familiar with Jack B Yeats but I have no concrete story as to how I came to have a  reproduction of this painting over my bed when I was younger. I must have picked it up on a trip to the National Gallery of Ireland.

 

I love it! It so vibrant and bold. I could and stare at it for hours and I use to. I love the blues of the sky and how it melts into the sea. I love the yellows and furious reds. I love the textures and brush strokes. I love how nothing is defined but everything is clear. I love how it communicates emotion without defining a scenario. I love how I can think on it for hours and create a new story behind the picture every time. I love how it makes me feel calm and I can loose myself in it. I love how I am not made curious about it. I don’tneed to know anything more about the painting as I am really happy looking at it. I just think its beautiful painting and I think I might make another trip to the National Art Gallery of Ireland when I return home!  

Mr Graham

 

Olive Tress by Vincent Van Gogh

 

I love everything about Van Gogh- the vivid, exciting colours, the paint applied with such energy that the texture leaps out at you, and the way he portrays a scene in such a way that you feel you know it, but have never seen it in such a beautiful way before.

Every time I see his work I feel such a wide range of emotions. Excitement, warmth, happiness, but with always sadness too. For me, no artist compares to Van Gogh- he had a completely unique way of viewing the world.

Ms O’Brien

 

I love this work by Matisse because of the free brush strokes and its colourful nature, it reminds me of having goldfish when I was younger and never having a proper fish bowl to put them in – they always lived in a trifle dish!!  Mrs Foley.

Henri Matisse, the Goldfish, oil on canvas, 1912