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Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Artlyst: The Victorian Radicals And Other Related Exhibitions

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on The Victorian Radicals at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and other related exhibitions at Wightwick Manor:

'The key works of Ford Madox Brown from the late 1840s provided a link between the Nazarenes, who formed a quasi-monastic brotherhood first in Vienna and then in Rome, and the early Pre-Raphaelites. A journey to Rome in 1845 exposed him to the work of the Nazarenes and the hard-edged, crisply drawn outlines that pre-figured the linear precision of early Pre-Raphaelite drawing. While not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), his work was consistently admired by its artists and synergistically used the same approaches and similar content, as is apparent here in ‘Pretty Baa-Lambs’, ‘Walton-on-the-Naze’ and ‘Work’. Alongside the brushwork’s scientific precision and brilliant colours are contemporary moral and spiritual themes expressed figuratively and through naturalistic symbolism. That precision of observation and depiction was also found in the work of John Ruskin, who first influenced and then actively promoted the PRB.'

See also my Artlyst review of The Rossetti's and my Church Times reviews of John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing and To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters.

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