PP9 Roderick O Connor.pdf - PDST

Irish Art History Section: Courtesy of the Professional Development Service for Teachers (P.D.S.T.)After his last trip to Brittany in 1904,O‘ Conor remained in Paris for thefollowing eight years. A briefreconnaissance trip to the Bay ofCassis is recorded late in 1912 andthis experience had an immediateeffect upon his work. Almost inanticipation of the glowing hueswhich he would encounter on hissecond, longer, visit in the summerof 1913, O'Connor's studio-piecestook on an intensity of colour and aweight of impasto which conveys thefull richness of his mature work.Leftover notes of extra colour,reflections of green in the flesh tintsand the dappled green and mauvebackdrop serve to remind us thatthis is the work of one of the originalPost-Impressionists but with apersonal touch.http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/arch/769/irish/OConor.html