Louis le brocquy biography channel

Born in Dublin in , Louis le Brocquy is a towering figure in the history of Irish painting.

Louis le brocquy biography channel

According to a recent editorial in The Irish Times: 'This self-taught artist has come to be recognised both at home and internationally as the foremost Irish painter of the 20th century.'1 His work has received much international attention and many accolades in a career that spans seventy years of creative practice.

According to John Russell, 'When Louis le Brocquy first came to be known as a painter, some (fifty) years ago, it was not as the civilised head-hunter that he has lately become. It was as a story-teller, a symbolist, and a thoughtful enquirer into the conditions of life.'2 Widely acclaimed for his evocative heads of literary figures and fellow artists, including W.B.

Yeats, James Joyce and his friends Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, Seamus Heaney and Bono, in recent years le Brocquy's early Tinker subjects and Family paintings, have attracted headline attention in the internat