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Eugeen van Mieghem - Port Life (Hardcover)
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Eugeen van Mieghem - Port Life (Hardcover)
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Antwerp artist Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) documents the
pulsating life around the port of Antwerp at the turn of the
twentieth century. Dockers, sack sewers, passengers, local
communities and general labourers are the subjects of his lifelong
fascination with Antwerp port. His affinity with his subjects makes
his work direct and sincere and is unique in the genre of social
realism. The port is one of the great gateways to the city,
facilitating the constant movement of goods and people - migrations
that are essential for the economy as well as for the evolution of
people and society. Ports also are scenes of human tragedy,
witnessing the forced emigration of families and communities
fleeing persecution and poverty, as immortalised in the paintings
and drawings of Eugeen Van Mieghem. Antwerp does have strong
associations with Irish artists in the late nineteenth century,
many of whom, attracted by the pioneering developments in art
practice on the Continent, travelled to Antwerp to study at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts artists, including Roderic O'Conor,
Walter Osborne and Norman Garstin. The result was light-filled
fleeting images painted out of doors, en plein air, a radical
departure from the official teachings of the established art
academies. It is not known if Van Mieghem and any of those Irish
artists ever came in contact with each other, but this exhibition
shows for the first time Van Mieghem's oeuvre alongside that of his
Irish peers, proving yet again how vital are ongoing migrations of
culture and people in illuminating and understanding our
contemporary society.
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