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Artist Notes

This blog contains articles on culture as well as a database of Realist and Social Realist art from around the world by Irish artist Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin. These paintings can be viewed country by country by clicking on the list of countries and themes down the right-hand side of the blog. The artwork of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, consisting of cityscapes of Dublin, images based on Irish history and other work with social/political themes, can be seen at www.gaelart.net.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Exploring Globalisation

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A list of books, authors and videos on globalisation, the global economy and the New World Order. ******************************************...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Dream Scene - Gangs of New York

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While watching Gangs of New York a few nights ago I noticed an extraordinary mise-en-scène shot that really struck me for its compact way of...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Thinking spaces

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In the last week I have come across two examples of ‘thinking spaces’ while reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and while watching...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Art and identity

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Sometimes I see art as a kind of scientific research - experimenting with the same idea over and over again i.e. the cityscape. And rather...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

The Myth of the Golem

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Rabbi Loew's Golem (wikipedia.org) The Golem in Jewish folklore In Jewish folklore, a golem (גולם, sometimes, as in Yiddish, pronounced...

The Paradox of Tradition

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Driving past an old thatched cottage on the way to Skerries, north Co Dublin, I noticed it had been recently re-thatched. That seemed like a...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Plato and total war on art

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Plato (wikipedia.org) But you will know that the only poetry that should be allowed in a state is hymns to the gods and paeans in praise of ...
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