PEADAR KEARNEY MEMORIAL [68 LOWER DORSET STREET]

his is interesting especially as it is located close to the Sculpture, in memory of Brendan Behan, at the canal bridge on the same street.

Peadar Kearney 12 December 1883 – 24 November 1942) was an Irish republican and composer of numerous rebel songs. In 1907 he wrote the lyrics to "The Soldier's Song" ("Amhrán na bhFiann"), now the Irish national anthem. He was the uncle of Irish writers Brendan Behan and Dominic Behan. Kearney was born at 68 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin in 1883

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HIS AND HERS BIRD BATH BY KATE ORAM [SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT 2015]

Kate creates finely sculpted objects in cast bronze, copper, aluminium, wood, stone and perspex. She mainly serves corporate customers and has received commissions from Diageo, Belfast Telegraph, Northern Irish Tourist Board, UTV, North West 200, Phoenix Natural Gas and Bulmers-Magners.

http://kateoram.com/?page_id=5


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CHANGE OF PACE BY DERVELLA McNEE [PART OF A TRASHING MACHINE - ACCORDING TO THE CATALOGUE]

I always thought that the word was threshing [that is how it was pronounced when I lived on a farm in Donegal back in the 50s].

According to Wikipedia: The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine (or simply thresher), was first invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. It was devised (c. 1786) for the separation of grain from stalks and husks.

As a matter of interest the artist was awarded the Zozimus Award [Sculpture In Context 2016]: “The Zozimus Award. For a work of distinction in any medium exhibited in the gallery, was awarded to:
Dervella McNee for Mosquito, Mosquito”

http://www.sculptureincontext.com/2016.htm


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"La Baigneuse" by Aristide Maillol

The bronze sculpture "La Baigneuse" (the bathing) in one of the water basins of the Mont des Arts in Brussels. It was sculptured by Aristide Maillol (1861 - 1944).

VISIT: https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/31260776885/in/dateposted/

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The Queen Elisabeth Statue [Artist- René Cliquet 1980]

The Queen Elisabeth Statue [Artist- René Cliquet 1980]


Location: Albertine square (Place de l’Albertine) at Kunstberg (Mont des Arts) in Brussels, Belgium.

The marble statue of Queen Elisabeth stands across the street facing an equestrian statue of her husband King Albert I of Belgium.

Elisabeth of Bavaria was Queen consort of the Belgians as the spouse of King Albert I, and a Duchess in Bavaria by birth. She was the mother of King Leopold III of Belgium and of Queen Marie José of Italy, and grandmother of kings Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium.

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Charles Buls and His Dog [Brussels, Belgium]

Charles Buls or Karel Buls (13 October 1837 – 13 July 1914) was a Belgian politician and mayor of the City of Brussels.

In 1999, a new fountain with a larger-than-life-sized seated statue of Buls and his dog was erected at the Place Agoraplein, close to the Grand Place.

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L’Ame Sentinelle,created between 1982 and 1984 [by Nat Neujean]

Nearly all online descriptions describe this very attractive bronze sculpture as ‘Two Female Nudes Embracing’ but it is in fact L’Ame Sentinelle’ which was created between 1982 and 1984 by Nat Neujean.

There also appears to be some confusion about the artist. Any online description that I have found claims that the artist was Nat Helligan [a number of different spellings] but the artist responsible is Nat Neujean as already mentioned.

Nathanael "Nat" Neujean is a Belgian sculptor from Antwerp. A figurative artist, he mostly worked in plaster and bronze. His works are held in various international collections. He has been honoured as a Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold and Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown.

Neujean was born in Antwerp, 5 January 1923. During the years 1939 to 1941, he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Among his better known busts are those of Tintin (1954) for the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels, Hergé (1958), and Robert Schumann (1987), a bronze bust in the Parc du Cinquantenaire of Brussels. He is also noted for his life-sized nude, La Belle Toscane. Another of his sculptures, a figurative bronze titled Lot's Wife (1968), is in the US at the Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden of Dallas, Texas. His mounted bronze of Henry Moore is part of the Collection of Charles Rand Penney, while Tendresse, a bronze, is part of the collection at McNay Art Museum. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, and Rolly-Michaux on Madison Avenue in New York City in 1974.

Facing discrimination as a Jew during World War II, he later did much towards Jewish heritage in Belgium; in January 1963 for instance he produced a number of different models related to the Holocaust at the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels. Nat Neujean is a Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold and Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown.

Visit: http://www.fonderiadeandreis.it/foto.html
Visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/30874293430/in/dateposted/

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A sculpture called "La Cycliste" by Alain Séchas [features a cat on a bicycle]

I photographed this in December 2009 and the quality of the photograph was very poor because it was so cold that my camera failed to work correctly. The auto-focus jammed and never properly recovered [It was a Sigma DP1]

It has taken me many years to identify this. Because a local told that it was the RabbitGirl I had previously described this as a ‘bunny on a bike’ or a ‘rabbit on a bicycle’. A few weeks ago I came across a photograph by the BBC with the title ‘Cat On A Bicycle’ so I now knew that it was not a bunny or a rabbit. Anyway a few days ago I came across the following description: “A statue called "La Cycliste" by Alain Séchas features a cat on a bicycle“

This elegant cat cyclist resulted from a commission from the city of Brussels to Alain Séchas in 2005. According to some reports it cost Euro 100,000 - I am not sure that I believe that but I do like it.

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LAZY PIGS by ROA [STREET ART IN BRUSSELS]

Sometime next year Lonely Planet will publish a book about street art and it will include some of my photographs.

It has taken my about two years to determine who was responsible for this example of street art in Brussels … no doubt many of you could have told me that it was an artist known as ROA.

ROA (born c. 1976) is the pseudonym of a graffiti artist from Ghent, Belgium. He has created works on the streets of cities across Europe, the United States, Australia, Asia and New Zealand.

ROA generally paints wild/urban animals and birds that are native to the area being painted. ROA usually uses a minimal color pallet, such as black, white, but also creates works using vibrant colours depicting flesh and/or internal systems within the animals and birds.

In 2011 ROA came to particular notice in the UK when Hackney council threatened to paint over one of his paintings, a 3.5m high rabbit. The rabbit had been legally painted on the wall of The Premises Studios in Hackney Road, London. A campaign was launched to keep the mural, by the building's owners and local residents, forcing the council to change its mind.

While exhibiting works at Perth's Form Gallery, ROA was commissioned by the City of Fremantle to leave his mark on Fremantle, in about 12 hours ROA created a 25-metre (82 ft) mural of a Numbat which he chose because it is a local endangered species.

In 2010, ROA participated in the Cologne CityLeaks Festival and painted a mural in Ehrenfeld at Senefelderstrasse 5

In August 2012 ROA took part in the See No Evil street art festival in Bristol, England, creating a two-storey high fox on the side of a building.

In January 2014 ROA visited Dunedin in New Zealand and painted a tuatara mural on a building on Bath Street.

-WIKIPEDIA-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROA_(artist)

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