Dr Robert Bohan

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26 January 2025 08:50

Ireland, too, would receive the Gillray treatment where he appears to have been ambivalent about the 1798 rebellion when Wexford rose up against colonial occupation. The chieftain is presented in noble pose even as women & children run for their lives. Fellow artists drew Irish rebels as monkeys.

Dr Robert Bohan

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26 January 2025 08:50

Thread: Nowadays cartoonists rarely have the esprit or rapier like wit of their 19th C forebears. Perhaps their understanding of great power politics can help us understand the fascistic technoboobies. Meet James Gillray, one of the greatest caricaturists in history! [Duke & Duchess]

Dr Robert Bohan

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26 January 2025 08:50

One of the things I find most inspirational in creating art is engaging with kids on how they perceive it. This is my little nephew & me in the National Gallery. He made a beeline for this Picasso! His excitement is how I approach drawing as you can see in this thread of my art!

David Maraniss

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25 January 2025 12:35

Naive as it often seems, I've always been a blue sky guy. Can't stop now.

David Maraniss

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25 January 2025 12:35

Back home. Back to my writing office. Back to Ghost in the House, the Life and Afterlife of Jack Johnson. It all happened in America a hundred-plus years ago, yet is a story of our times.