The Guardian view on memory in art: fallible yet magical | Editorial

Works by great creators such as Jack B Yeats and Tolstoy show how an unreliable recall of the past can be transfiguredThe National Gallery of Ireland’s exhibition of the work of Jack B Yeats, soon to conclude, is most encouraging for those who feel that they have yet to fulfil their creative potential. The artist made many of his most avant garde works when he was in his 70s and 80s, a period in which he was also at his most prolific as an oil painter. As an artist, he ended up worlds away