{"id":16646,"date":"2015-04-15T02:03:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2015-04-15T02:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:03:46","slug":"the-art-of-robin-ironside-1912-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/15\/the-art-of-robin-ironside-1912-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Robin Ironside, 1912\u20131965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinironside.org\/images\/paintings\/02_lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ironside1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ironside1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rossetti\u2019s Willow Wood (1944).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In one of those odd coincidences that occur from time to time, a picture by Robin Ironside is featured in a book I&#8217;ve been reading this week just as news arrives of a forthcoming talk about Ironside&#8217;s strange paintings. The book is <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.phaidon.com\/store\/decorative-arts\/baroque-baroque-9780714838601\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Baroque Baroque<\/em><\/a> by Stephen Calloway, while the talk is being given by the artist&#8217;s niece, Virginia Ironside, at the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art &amp; Natural History in London on April 21st. (Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org\/listings\/event\/robin-ironside-portrait-neo-romantic-visionary\/#.VS2qhhweUoR\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinironside.org\/images\/paintings\/27_lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ironside2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ironside2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Secret burial (1954).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I&#8217;d not encountered Ironside&#8217;s work until now despite a long-term fetish for unusual or unfashionable art. This isn&#8217;t too surprising since he and his fellow Neo-Romantics (a term he coined) had the misfortune to be working during a period that was deeply antagonistic towards this kind of painting. Rex Whistler is the most popular exponent of the style but Ironside&#8217;s art has the added attraction of a vaguely Surrealist flavour without any of the absurdities that usually ruin English attempts to follow Dal\u00ed and company. The Ironside website has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinironside.org\/robin-ironside-paintings.html\" target=\"_blank\">further examples of his paintings<\/a> plus designs for the theatre and some illustration work. For those who can&#8217;t attend The Last Tuesday Society there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinironside.org\/about-robin-ironside.html\" target=\"_blank\">a lengthy reminiscence<\/a> by Virginia Ironside about her fascinating uncle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rossetti\u2019s Willow Wood (1944). In one of those odd coincidences that occur from time to time, a picture by Robin Ironside is featured in a book I&#8217;ve been reading this week just as news arrives of a forthcoming talk about Ironside&#8217;s strange paintings. The book is Baroque Baroque by Stephen Calloway, while the talk is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/15\/the-art-of-robin-ironside-1912-1965\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Robin Ironside, 1912\u20131965&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,18],"tags":[2003,4569,7196,825,3033,7197],"class_list":["post-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-last-tuesday-society","tag-rex-whistler","tag-robin-ironside","tag-stephen-calloway","tag-viktor-wynd","tag-virginia-ironside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}