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Sunday 15 November 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
Hughie O’Donoghue
Tomorrow is the last day of the Hughie O’Donoghue exhibition at the Leeds Art Galley.
As much as I appreciate and try to understand art I find it pretty rare that a piece of work can stir up as much emotion as this collection does.
The pieces are a mix of photography and vigorous paint work and although they are not subtle in size the intricacies really are. The colours are subdued and and atmospheric from a distance but in one instance, closer up, a blue was electric and intense.
The idea of using collage has exploded recently, (photoshop, cough), but this work seems to kind of take on that idea and transport it back to traditional grand paintings seen in the other rooms of the gallery.
I can't pin point what it was about these paintings that made me feel so different about them, they rung nostalgia with an edge of tragedy without any tricks or distractions and I spent a long time looking at them.
As much as I appreciate and try to understand art I find it pretty rare that a piece of work can stir up as much emotion as this collection does.
The pieces are a mix of photography and vigorous paint work and although they are not subtle in size the intricacies really are. The colours are subdued and and atmospheric from a distance but in one instance, closer up, a blue was electric and intense.
The idea of using collage has exploded recently, (photoshop, cough), but this work seems to kind of take on that idea and transport it back to traditional grand paintings seen in the other rooms of the gallery.
I can't pin point what it was about these paintings that made me feel so different about them, they rung nostalgia with an edge of tragedy without any tricks or distractions and I spent a long time looking at them.
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