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''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.

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Acrylic Paint & Hammer Embossed Fine Art Paper

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W. B. Yeats - The Second Coming (Framed) (2014)
Acrylic painting
by Peter Walters

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''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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