The Bell was an Irish monthly magazine of literature and social comment.
21-483: The Bell may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media [ edit ] Literature [ edit ] The Bell (magazine) , an Irish literary magazine 1940–1954 The Bell (novel) , by Iris Murdoch, 1958 "The Bell", a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bell (newspaper) , an independent online newspaper in Russia Kolokol (newspaper) ('Bell'),
42-472: A "sense of the future, an awareness of the possibility of a world other than the one we know". His favourite subjects included the Irish landscape, horses, circus and travelling players. His early paintings and drawings are distinguished by an energetic simplicity of line and colour, and his later paintings by an extremely vigorous and experimental treatment of often thickly applied paint. He frequently abandoned
63-758: A 19th century Russian and French language newspaper in London and Geneva Music [ edit ] "The Bell" (song) , by Mike Oldfield, 1992 "The Bell", a 2002 album by Stephan Said Television [ edit ] The Bell (TV series) , a 1982 British television series Pubs in England [ edit ] The Bell, City of London , England The Bell Inn, Aldworth , Berkshire, England The Bell Inn, Long Hanborough , Oxfordshire, England The Bell Inn, Nottingham , England The Bell Inn, formerly at 9 and 9A Southgate Street, Gloucester Other uses [ edit ] Dundonald Bluebell F.C. ,
84-660: A crucial role in building his career and reputation. Besides painting, Yeats had a significant interest in theatre and in literature . He was a close friend of the playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett . He designed sets for the Abbey Theatre and three of his own plays were produced there. His literary works include The Careless Flower , The Amaranthers (much admired by Beckett), Ah Well, A Romance in Perpetuity , And To You Also , and The Charmed Life . Yeats's paintings usually bear poetic and evocative titles. He
105-481: A football club in Scotland, nicknamed The Bell See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with The Bell Die Glocke (disambiguation) The Bells (disambiguation) Bell (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Bell . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
126-521: A significant collection of his paintings, as well as his personal archive. Yeats was born in London, England. He was the youngest son of the Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of W. B. Yeats (William Butler), who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature . He grew up in Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to his parents' home in London in 1887. Yeats attended
147-583: The Chiswick School of Art with his sisters Elizabeth and Susan , learning "Freehand drawing in all its branches, practical Geometry and perspective, pottery and tile painting, design for decorative purposes – as in Wall-papers, Furniture, Metalwork, Stained Glass". Early in his career, Yeats worked as an illustrator for magazines like the Boy's Own Paper and Judy , drew comic strips, including
168-618: The Sherlock Holmes parody "Chubb-Lock Homes" for Comic Cuts , and wrote articles for Punch under the pseudonym "W. Bird". In 1894 he married Mary Cottenham White, a fellow student, also a native of England and two years his senior. At the 1911 Census they lived in Greystones in County Wicklow . From around 1920, he developed into an intensely Expressionist artist, moving from illustration to Symbolism . He
189-663: The restrictive influence of the Church , and reactionary tendencies in Irish literature. Having undergone financial difficulties which resulted in its temporary closure between 1948 and 1950, it finally ceased appearing in 1954. Along with The Dublin Magazine , The Bell is accounted the most important literary and intellectual journal of Ireland in the twentieth century. The Bell was notable as an outlet for new writers such as Michael McLaverty and James Plunkett . The bell also fostered many young Irish writers and artists from
210-450: The 1940s and 1950s, when contributors included Anthony Cronin (who went on to edit the magazine), John Montague , Thomas Kinsella , Val Mulkerns , Brendan Behan , Patrick Kavanagh , Patrick Swift , Michael Farrell (under the pseudonym "Gulliver") and Conor Cruise O'Brien . Musicians such as Brian Boydell and Aloys Fleischmann also contributed. Jack B. Yeats Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957)
231-474: The Games. In the competition records the painting is simply entitled Swimming . In November 2010, one of Yeats's works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night , painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene , sold for nearly £350,000 at a Christie's auction in London. A smaller work, Man in a Room Thinking , painted in 1947, sold for £66,000 at the same auction. His painting Sleep Sound (1955)
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#1732797752146252-564: The West of Ireland" was held in 1898. He began as an illustrator and watercolourist until moving to oil paint around 1906. His early pictures are lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures predominantly from the west of Ireland. His early oil paintings are heavily influenced by Romanticism , before he adopted Expressionism c. 1910, for which he became famous. He died in Dublin in 1957, aged 85 years. The National Gallery of Ireland holds
273-646: The authors whose work sustained the magazine's connection with cultural activities in Ulster, in addition to which it repeatedly featured writing from various parts of Europe. In the course of its fourteen-year career, The Bell was variously subtitled "A Survey of Irish Life", "A Magazine of Creative Fiction", and "A Magazine of Ireland Today"; its concern with social and political matters gave rise to incisive commentaries on such topics as state censorship in Ireland , on which George Bernard Shaw wrote in an issue of 1945,
294-581: The brush altogether, applying paint in a variety of different ways, and was deeply interested in the expressive power of colour. Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century (and the first to sell for over £1m), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure. The artist closest to him in style is his friend, the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka . In 1943, Yeats accepted Victor Waddington as his sole dealer and business manager. Waddington played
315-637: The contributors to its first edition in 1940 were Elizabeth Bowen , Flann O'Brien , Patrick Kavanagh , Frank O'Connor , and Jack B. Yeats . The Bell was notable, particularly under the editorship of Seán Ó Faoláin, as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation, fiercely critical of censorship , Gaelic revivalist ideology, clericalism , and general parochialism. Under Peadar O'Donnell (1946–54), The Bell became more left‐wing in content and irregular in frequency of publication but continued to produce material of high quality. W. R. Rodgers and Louis MacNeice were among
336-429: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Bell&oldid=1230366313 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Bell (magazine) The Bell was founded in 1940 by Seán Ó Faoláin . Amongst
357-409: The loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man. Samuel Beckett wrote that "Yeats is with the great of our time... because he brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence." The Marxist art critic and author John Berger also paid tribute to Yeats from a very different perspective, praising the artist as a "great painter" with
378-648: Was an Irish artist . Born into a family of impoverished Anglo-Irish landholders, his father was the painter John Butler Yeats , and his brother was the poet W. B. Yeats . Jack B. was born in London but was raised in County Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to London in 1887 to live with his parents. Afterwards he travelled frequently between the two countries; while in Ireland he lived mainly in Greystones , County Wicklow and in Dublin city. Butlers' first solo exhibition "Sketches of Life in
399-661: Was bought by David Bowie in 1993 for £45,500 and sold at auction in 2016 for £233,000. In 1999 the painting, The Wild Ones , sold at Sotheby's in London for over £1.2m. Whyte's Auctioneers hold the world record sale price for a Yeats painting, Reverie (1931), which sold for €1,400,000 in November 2019. The Model, Home of The Niland Collection, in Sligo cares for one of the best and most extensive collections of Jack B. Yeats's work in existence. It presents regular curated exhibitions of his work, notably, The Outside in 2011, Enter
420-733: Was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916. He died in Dublin in 1957, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery . Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medallist at the Olympic Games in the wake of the creation of the Irish Free State . At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of
441-472: Was sympathetic to the Irish Republican cause, but not politically active. However, he believed that 'a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist , helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as
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