Irish Art - Robert Ballagh

Robert Ballagh (b.1943) Ballagh is recognised for his imaginative and hyperealistic renderings of well known literary, historical or establishment figures. He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale 1969 and soon became one of Irelands most reputed painters. In the evolution of his art, in moving from abstraction to figuration, he introduced the figure first as a silhouette or 'cut-out', then as a heavily outlined, painted figure (as in his pastiches of Goya, Delacroix, Poussin or Ingres) . For details and other Whytes Irish Art Biographies - click title Irish Art