Welcome to the National Gallery of Ireland! Follow the trail on a special route through the Gallery and complete your worksheets as you go! In your Family Pack, you should find: 

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Clipboard with drawings to colour and art puzzles to complete Pencilcase with eraser, colouring pencils, parer & crayons Viewfinder Trail Map Ruler

To start, go up the stairs, through the big black door to your left and into Room 4 Photos © National Gallery of Ireland

Irish COLLECTION ‘The 16th, 17th (ST. PaTrick’S Day) anD 18th March, 1856’ by Erskine Nicol

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St. Patrick’s Day was not a national holiday until 1903. The people of this village are celebrating the day a lot like we would. There are people dancing in the centre and a band playing for them on the right. On the left there are two girls selling a plant that is worn on St. Patrick’s Day. Can you guess what it is? Here is a clue... Erskine Nicol, The 16th, 17th (St. Patrick’s Day) and 18th March, 1856. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Now leave Room 4. The next painting in on the long wall on your left

‘MiliTary ManoeuvreS’ By Richard Moynan

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This painting is considered to show the town of Leixlip, Co. Kildare, 120 years ago The boys are pretending to be a marching band parading down the street Some have instruments but others are just using fun items like metal pots, cardboard boxes, watering cans or anything they could find! Draw your favourite musical instrument or invent your own, like the boys in this painting! Richard Moynan, Military Manoeuvres. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Return out the first big black door.

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‘GeorGe BernarD Shaw’ By Prince Paul Troubetzkoy

This is a 3D sculpture made from bronze. George Bernard Shaw is famous for writing lots of popular play and models. He wrote over 60 plays! He looks thoughtful, as if he has just come up with a bright idea. He came to The National Gallery of Ireland many times when he was young and even has a room named after him called The Shaw Room. What do you think it could be? Can you see other sculptures?

Using the frame in your worksheet, draw what you imagine Shaw is thinking. Maybe an idea for a play!

Go through the black door to the right, beyond the wooden desk, into Room 6 of the European Section.

Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, George Bernard Shaw. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

EUROPEAN COLLECTION

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Draw and colour your own fiery dragon! Novogorod School ‘St. George and the Dragon’, Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

The next painting is in Room 7

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‘The Four SeaSonS’ By Simon Vouet

Simon Vouet, the artist, has painted four people to tell us about the four seasons. A painting in the shape of a circle is called a tondo. Spring has flowers in her hair and holds a wreath of flowers. Summer carries a sickle, a ploughing tool and her hair is made from ears of corn. Autumn carries grapes and is scared of the hunter’s dog. The hunter has a blue cloak and curly hair that reminds us of winter winds. Simon Vouet, The Four Seasons, Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Continue to Room 9

‘The coTTaGe Girl’ F by Thomas Gainsborough rags standing by a stream. This painting shows a child in broken pitcher. She is carrying a puppy and a going? Where do you think the girl is re’. These paintThis painting is a ‘fancy pictu everyday life who ings usually had figures from ey also had very beautiful were good and kind people. Th landscapes in the background. at other animals can The puppy is easy to see but wh you see in the painting?

Can you draw all the animals in this painting? Thomas Gainsborough, The Cottage Girl, Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Continue around the corner to Room 10

in a FlowereD haT’ G ‘STella By KeeS Van Dongen rson is called a portrait. A painting of a likeness of a pe lled Stella. This portrait is of a woman ca was part of an artist The artist, Kees Van Dongen, uves’, which means group in Paris known as ‘Les Fa ‘wild beasts’ in French! ist used are unusual. Do you think the colours the art has used viv id pinks Stella’s hair is blue! The artist ’s personality. and purples to dramatise Stella Bonus Task! Colour in the portrait of Stella in your worksheets using bright colours like Les Fauves! Kees Van Dongen, Stella in a Flowered Hat © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

The next painting on the trail is also in Room 10

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‘STill liFe wiTh a ManDolin’ by Pablo Picasso yday objects

A ‘still–life’ is a picture of ever

nce of This painting shows the influe by Picasso Cubism. The style was invented ges Braque and his friend, the artist, Geor

EYE SPY Can you spot any. . ? Bowl of fruit Fish Tablecloth Plants Bottle

Spanish guitar known as a ‘mandolin’ Any other items?

Pablo Picasso, Still-Life with a Mandolin © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2013. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Go to the exit into the Atrium. The next paintings are very up high.

Atrium

I ‘The Four SeaSonS’ By FeliM eGan These four panels were painted in 1996 by Felim Egan. The Four Seasons were made specifically for this area when it was built. e? Do they look well in this spac Do you find them hard to see? , They are made of paint, board niglass and a metal, called alumi um. Can you tell which season each panel is? Are the colours important? © Felim Egan. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Do you prefer these four paintings or the picture of the Four Seasons by Simon Vouet that you saw earlier?

The next work is below these paintings!

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‘The TiTian FraMe’ by Vincenzo Bolci Doratore

inting by This frame was made for a pa us. It is on Titian called Supper at Emma wed as a display so the frame can be vie work of art in its own right.

EYE SPY Can you spot all the food and flowers that are created around the edge of the frame?    

Baskets of fish Baskets of bread Vines Trumpets

Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

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Roses Daisies Ropes Floats

Fill in your own Frame in th e activity sheets! What would yo on a picture u put frame?

Go down the corridor to your left.

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