A Monument in Rouen / Hughie O'Donoghue
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.80
- Title
- A Monument in Rouen
- Artist
- Hughie O'Donoghue
- Artist Nationality
- Irish
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1953
- Medium and Support
- oil and inkjet on gampi tissue on linen
- Object Creation Date
- 1999-2000
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Ireland (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Ireland (nation)
- Dimensions
- 279 cm x 248 cm x 5.4 cm (109 13/16 in. x 97 5/8 in. x 2 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- A collection of abstract landscape and figure with a photographic image. The figure, Christlike in its pose, runs up roughly the middle of the painting, looking also like a road or a path across the bleak landscape. In the upper left is a photographic image of some military trucks and a scaffold tower. Along the left half of the landscape, names of towns are written in the paint.
- Subject Matter
- History, World War II, specifically the retreat of the British Army through France and Belgium in 1940, in which the artist's father took part. The names written in the paint are the names of the towns that the soldiers passed through. The tortured figure and landscape of war.
- Primary Keywords
- figures (representations)
- land vehicles
- memory
- natural landscapes
- oil painting
- oil paintings
- rouen (inhabited place)
- world war ii
- Secondary Keywords
- armed conflicts
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- europe (continent)
- events
- france (nation)
- geographic and political locations
- haute-normandie (region)
- image-making processes and techniques
- landscapes (environments)
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- paintings
- paintings by material or technique
- people and culture
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- psychological concepts
- seine-maritime, dèpartement de la (department)
- settlements and landscapes
- social science concepts
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- wars
- world wars
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2235 x 2503
- File Size
- 744 KB
- Record
- 2001/2.80
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2001-sl-2.80/2001_2.80.jpg
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"A Monument in Rouen; Hughie O'Donoghue." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2001-sl-2.80/2001_2.80.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
