POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Lecture by George Atkinson
‘A lecture dealing with a well-considered analysis of the more extreme tendencies in recent modern art [Post-Impressionism], was delivered by Mr. G. Atkinson R.H.A. at the School of Art. He dealt with the characteristics of preceding [art] forms in order to establish a connection with present activities and to show whether these activities were merely isolated eccentricities or abnormalities that might be disregarded as wholly transitory and negligible. …It was the belief in many quarters that the modern tendencies appearing in art were due to the abnormal and disintegrating conditions arising out of the [First World] war.   …There was no doubt that the war did much to accentuate the note of violence and the vividness apparent in some of its aspects, but the war could not be the originating cause, as the seeds of the movement …were sown during the latter yeas of the nineteenth century’

[Extract from Cork Examiner, 14 November 1923, p4]

Atkinson’s lecture was the last in a series of public lectures organised by Cork School of Art during 1923 which included its own teaching staff:

• Gladys Scott ‘Nature and Imagination in Art’
  Design Teacher
• John Power ‘The Construction of a Picture’
  Second Art Master (or Vice Principal)
• Michael Holland ‘Sketches of Irish Artists’
  Guest Lecturer, Botanist and President of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1942-46)
• Hugh Colman Charde ‘Sketch of [James] Barry’s Life’
  Artist and Principal, Crawford Municipal School of Art
• Daniel Corkery ‘What an Irish School of Art Should Be’
  Writer, Teacher, Artist, and Gibson Bequest Sub-Committee Member
• John Joseph O’Connor ‘Art and Craftsmanship’
  Technical Instructor and Administrator, and Gibson Bequest Sub-Committee Member
• George Atkinson ‘Post Impressionism’
  Artist and Principal, Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, and Expert Advisor to Gibson Bequest Sub-Committee.

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