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Original artwork description:
''Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.'' - William Butler Yeats.
An acrylic portrait of Irish poet and Nobel Prize laureate, William Butler Yeats. This portrait of a youthful Yeats is painted upon the opening words of his great Modernist and post-war poem - The Second Coming.
Materials used:
Acrylic Paint & Hammer Embossed Fine Art Paper
Tags:
#portrait #vintage #ireland #modernism #poetry #political #literary influences #irish #word art #yeatsW. B. Yeats - The Second Coming (Framed) (2014) Acrylic painting
by Peter Walters
497 Artist Reviews
£65 Sold
- Acrylic painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20.96 x 20.96 x 2.54cm (framed) / 12.7 x 12.7cm (actual image size)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Graphic, illustrative and typographic
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
''Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.'' - William Butler Yeats.
An acrylic portrait of Irish poet and Nobel Prize laureate, William Butler Yeats. This portrait of a youthful Yeats is painted upon the opening words of his great Modernist and post-war poem - The Second Coming.
Materials used:
Acrylic Paint & Hammer Embossed Fine Art Paper
Tags:
#portrait #vintage #ireland #modernism #poetry #political #literary influences #irish #word art #yeats
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Artist Reviews (497)
Peter Walters
United Kingdom
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his creative talent and love of literature, Peter has... Read more