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Yeats had a sophisticated relationship with memory, never allowing his musings to become hackneyed or weighed down by sentimentality. Nostalgia played a part in his thinking, but did not define the odyssey of life that inspired his art.
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As Yeats himself said, ‘No one creates. The artists assembles memories.’
— Dec 13, 2025 03:32PM
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Yeats preferred not to talk at length about his practice, provide explanations of the content and character of his paintings, or indicate what inspired them specifically.
MacGreevy recalled that the artist did not wish his paintings to be interpreted literally, but intended the spectator to understand each picture personally - to contribute to the work of art in [their] own way.
— Dec 13, 2025 03:29PM
MacGreevy recalled that the artist did not wish his paintings to be interpreted literally, but intended the spectator to understand each picture personally - to contribute to the work of art in [their] own way.
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It is remarkable that Yeats did not produce his first oil painting until he reached his early thirties, and only began painting in oils regularly at the age of thirty-eight.
By the time he relinquished a documentary inclination in favour of an expressionistic sensibility, he was approaching sixty.
— Dec 13, 2025 03:16PM
By the time he relinquished a documentary inclination in favour of an expressionistic sensibility, he was approaching sixty.
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Dec 13, 2025 03:40PM
While some of his early paintings represent a relatively straightforward reimagining of earlier experiences, many later works suggest graver and more metaphysical reflection. In some instances, he wilfully conflates personal and public memory to create composite subjects. In others, painted after the death of close friends and family, he draws his own past and present together in a strikingly poignant manner.
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