The White Stag Group was an London-founded Irish artist group centred around the British artists Basil Rákóczi and Kenneth Hall.
History
The White Stag Group was founded in London in 1935 by the artists Basil Rákóczi and Kenneth Hall, with the aim of promoting the advancement of subjectivity in psychological analysis and art. Rákóczi and Hall had met at a meeting of the Society for Creative Psychology in July 1935.
The White Stage was headquartered at Rákóczi's art studio at 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia. Their group philosophy, which they called Subjectivist Art, was not associated with any particular style or set belief. Instead, it encouraged an exploration of psychology and of modernist ideas. They also believed in aesthetic experimentation and aesthetics as an objective in art.
The group was at the vanguard of modern artistic ideas in Ireland, were involved in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and influenced Patrick Scott, Gerald Dillon and Louis le Brocquy. The Irish composer Brian Boydell, at that time a visual artist, was also a member of the group.
Legacy
The Irish Museum of Modern Art put on a White Stag retrospective during the summer of 2005.
- Brian Boydell
- Jocelyn Chewett
- Ralph Cusack
- Robert (Bobby) Dawson, member 1940–1941
- Georgette Rondel
- Juan Stoll
- Patricia Wallace
Associated
- Helmut Kolle
- Margot Moffett