Summary
From Hogarth to Wyndham Lewis the exhibition distinguishes a belief in painting as a substitute for our inadequacies as religious or history painters. Constable, in the 1830s, said that painting was a Science 'and should be pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature', and that it 'should be understood' -- a view echoed 100 years later by William Coldstream and the Euston Road School, who wanted a figurative art that the man in the street could understand.
See the full content of this document
Extract
How Others See Us
British Vision : Observation and Iimagination in British Art 1750-19-50
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, until 13 January 2008This stunning, and constantly surprising, exhibition is the brainchild, or love child even, of the Flemish art historian Robert Hoozee, author of the first Constable catalogue raisonné and director of the Museum of Fine A...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
