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Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones, l'un des derniers préraphaélites, a donné vie à des mondes imaginaires dans ses peintures impressionnantes, ses vitraux et ses tapisseries.
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J.M.W. Turner
oseph Mallord William Turner wurde in London in Covent Garden in der Maiden Lane 21 geboren, und zwar Ende April oder Anfang Mai 1775.
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J.M.W. Turner
Exhibition: Turner Prize Date: 25 September 2018 – 6 January 2019 Venue: Tate Britain, UK Joseph Mallord William Turner was born at 21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, sometime in late April or early May 1775. (The artist himself liked to claim that he was born on 23, April which is both the English national holiday, St George’s Day, and William Shakespeare’s birthday, although no verification of that claim has ever been found.) His father, William, was a wigmaker and barber. We know little about Turner’s mother, Mary (née Marshall), other than that she was mentally unbalanced, and that her instability was exacerbated by the fatal illness of Turner’s younger…
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Art Under Attack
Art incites great passion. Individual artworks are adored and people become devoted to particular artists. On the flip-side, however, this strength of feeling can equally well be a negative one- many pieces of art are passionately hated. This hatred and anger often prompts the destruction of artworks, in protest at what they represent. When a leader is overthrown, we often see news footage of their statues being toppled. In 1776, George Washington’s troops actually used a statue of King George III as a weapon- melting the lead to make thousands of bullets to fire at the British. In a more personal protest, in the 1600s Royalist Prince Frederick Duleep Singh,…
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Vers une représentation parfaite de la femme.
« Ramener l’esprit des gens à une bonne réflexion » c’est ce que souhaitaient William Holman Hunt John Everett Millais et Dante Gabriel Rossetti, les créateurs du Préraphaélisme qui apparut à Londres à la fin des années 1840. Les trois artistes, alors étudiants, souhaitaient revenir à une forme d’art conforme à celle qui existait avant Raphaël, c’est-à-dire à l’art médiéval et en particulier celui des primitifs italiens, qu’ils désignaient comme modèle de pureté et de liberté. Que représenter de plus pur, de plus poétique, de plus esthétique qu’une jeune fille virginale aux cheveux longs, d’une grâce infinie, dans une scène quotidienne ? De leur visage de porcelaine, de leurs cheveux, de leur robe…
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Vom Werden und Vergehen – Ophelia und die Präraffaeliten
Die Szenerie ist malerisch: Ein kleiner, klarer Bach schlängelt sich durch den Wald, eine Weide neigt sich über ihn, am Ufer wachsen Nesseln, Hahnenfuß, Maßliebchen und Kuckucksblumen. Eine junge Frau flechtet Blumenkränze, die sie zum Trocknen an den niedrigen Weidenzweigen aufhängt – doch plötzlich bringt ein falscher Schritt sie aus dem Gleichgewicht, sie strauchelt, findet keinen Halt und fällt ins Wasser. Der Bach, der sich urplötzlich zu einem regelrechten Wildwasserstrom entwickelt, reißt sie in die Tiefe, ihre Kleider saugen sich voll Wasser, die junge Frau schnappt verzweifelt nach Luft, doch ihre Lungen haben sich schon mit Wasser gefüllt, sie ertrinkt elendiglich. Das Gemälde Ophelia des britischen Malers John Everett Millais…
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Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement: Models, Muses, Lovers, Artists
When you think of “Pre-Raphaelite”, what comes to mind? For me, it is male painters, female subjects, a lot of nature, and vivid colours. And for 95% percent of paintings produced by this movement, this is the reality. The key members of the group (Hunt, Millais, the two Rossettis, Collinson, Stephens, and Woolner) were all men. Together, they created a secret group called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Like just about every other artistic movement, the Brotherhood wanted reform. They rejected the academic styles of Raphael and artists after him, finding them idealised and corrupted. The Brotherhood sought a return to the Pre-Raphael Italian style with its vivid colours and imitation of…
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Picasso: the Exhibition and the Ebook
As the exquisite Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition rages on in style at the Tate Britain, Parkstone International is delighted to present a lifelong souvenir of the event – Picasso, the ebook. Similar to the exhibition itself, this convenient and excellent-quality title allows readers to take full advantage of Picasso’s glorious artwork, in a convenient digital format, allowing you to pop into Picasso’s gallery of masterpieces whenever you choose, and as many times as you’d like. Pablo Picasso is among the most famous figures in 20th-century art, whose works serve as testament to the parallelism of his life and art, underlining the impact of important encounters and events. Tate…
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