Sean Keating , actually John Keating (Gaelic. Seán Céitinn , born September 28, 1889 ; Limerick - d. December 21, 1977 Dublin ) is an Irish artist who wrote in the styles of romanticism and realism .
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S. Keating, a participant and witness to the events of the formation of the Irish independent state, the War of Independence of Ireland and its industrial development, wrote canvases praising the Irish fighters, the construction of an economically strong country. He was the author of portraits of ordinary people from the people.
He studied drawing first at the Limerick Technical School. He was heavily influenced by the painting of William Orpen . After several years of study at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, S. Keating lives and works on the Aran Islands , and in London , in the art studio of W. Orpen. In 1916, he returned to Ireland, participated in the struggle for independence and in the civil war in the country, painted on the basis of these events (Men of the South, 1921; Allegory (An Allegory), 1922 ).
Since 1923, Sean Keating is a member of the Irish Royal Hibernian Academy . During this period, the artist devotes his work to the industrial development of the Free Irish State - for example, the construction of a hydroelectric power station in Ardnakrush , near Limerick, with the help of the German company Siemens AG . Keating delivers the workdays of builders as historical, almost legendary events.
In 1939, S. Keating was entrusted with the decoration of the Irish pavilion at the World Exhibition in New York . From 1949 to 1962 he was president of the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.
- ↑ 1 2 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/205400
- ↑ 1 2 John Keating
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.