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Ronan Walsh

Ronan Walsh (Born 1958) is active/lives in Ireland, Canada.  Ronan Walsh is known for Abstract painting-horses.

Following is an exhibition review from Camargue: culture northernireland.org, 11/30/2009

Ronan Walsh's work retains a tension between abstraction and figuration that recalls the work of Jack B Yeats in moments like The Singing Horseman and abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning. There is the same vigorous, thickly applied paint and scenes where subjective expression overrides careful or conservative rendering of the subject.

De Kooning played with the female form, allowing the paint to gesture at her figuration, but ultimately sacrificing her to the abstraction of loose brushstrokes and skeins of colour. Dublin-born Walsh is a romantic abstract painter and does something similar with his skewed outlines of horses and landscapes. He is perhaps temperamentally closer to Yeats, his brushstrokes suggesting a more lyrical intensity than the hardnosed conceptual rebellion favoured by de Kooning.

In many of the pieces in Camargue (an exhibition at the Gorml   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7107 characters.]  Artist bio

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