The amateur chucker-out (1907)
William Orpen1907 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1931)
Specifications
- Year
- 1907
- Nationality / school
- Irish
- Lifespan
- 1878–1931
About the artwork
"The amateur chucker-out" (1907) is a work by William Orpen. Context for 1907: The first decades of the twentieth century were a period of rapid experiment, with Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and the first abstract painting appearing within a few years of each other. Dada and Surrealism followed the First World War, the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919, and Art Deco became the fashionable decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s. Illustration, a short history: Illustration serves a text or a story, a tradition that runs from decorated medieval manuscripts to printed book plates, magazines, and posters. Printing methods such as woodcut, engraving, lithography, and photomechanical reproduction each shaped how illustrators worked. The catalogue places it in Illustration. The format is landscape.
"The amateur chucker-out" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A landscape format suits wide, low wall spaces such as the stretch above a bed, mantel, or sideboard. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
Irish, 1878–1931
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