Ouça e leia

Entre em um mundo infinito de histórias

  • Ler e ouvir tanto quanto você quiser
  • Com mais de 500.000 títulos
  • Títulos exclusivos + Storytel Originals
  • 7 dias de teste gratuito, depois R$19,90/mês
  • Fácil de cancelar a qualquer momento
Assine agora
br bdp devices
Idiomas
Inglês
Format
Categoria

Não-ficção

Burne-Jones’ oeuvre can be understood as an attempt to create in paint a world of perfect beauty, as far removed from the Birmingham of his youth as possible. At that time Birmingham was a byword for the dire effects of unregulated capitalism – a booming, industrial conglomeration of unimaginable ugliness and squalor. The two great French symbolist painters, Gustave Moreau and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, immediately recognised Burne-Jones as an artistic fellow traveller. But, it is very unlikely that Burne-Jones would have accepted or even, perhaps, have understood the label of ‘symbolist’. Yet he seems to have been one of the most representative figures of the symbolist movement and of that pervasive mood termed “fin-de-siecle”. Burne-Jones is usually labelled as a Pre-Raphaelite. In fact he was never a member of the Brotherhood formed in 1848. Burne-Jones’ brand of Pre-Raphaelitism derives not from Hunt and Millais but from Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Burne-Jones’ work in the late 1850s is, moreover, closely based on Rossetti’s style. His feminine ideal is also taken from that of Rossetti, with abundant hair, prominent chins, columnar necks and androgynous bodies hidden by copious medieval gowns. The prominent chins remain a striking feature of both artists’ depictions of women. From the 1860s their ideal types diverge. As Rossetti’s women balloon into ever more fleshy opulence, Burne-Jones’ women become more virginal and ethereal to the point where, in some of the last pictures, the women look anorexic. In the early 1870s Burne-Jones painted several mythical or legendary pictures in which he seems to have been trying to exorcise the traumas of his celebrated affair with Mary Zambaco. No living British painter between Constable and Bacon enjoyed the kind of international acclaim that Burne-Jones was accorded in the early 1890s. This great reputation began to slip in the latter half of the decade, however, and it plummeted after 1900 with the triumph of Modernism. With hindsight we can see this flatness and the turning away from narrative as characteristic of early Modernism and the first hesitant steps towards Abstraction. It is not as odd at it seems that Kandinsky cited Rossetti and Burne-Jones as forerunners of Abstraction in his book, “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”.

© 2024 Parkstone International (Ebook): 9781781606384

Data de lançamento

Ebook: 5 de junho de 2024

Tags

    Outros também usufruíram...

    1. Malevich Gerry Souter
    2. The ultimate book on Rembrandt Émile Michel
    3. Pieter Bruegel and artworks Victoria Charles
    4. Bosch Virginia Pitts Rembert
    5. Egon Schiele and artworks Esther Selsdon
    6. Lucas Cranach the elder Alexander Stepanov
    7. Rembrandt - Painter, Engraver and Draftsman - Volume 2 Émile Michel
    8. Peter Paul Rubens Maria Varshavskaya
    9. Raphael - Volume 1 Eugène Müntz
    10. Titian Sir Claude Phillips
    11. Rembrandt (1606-1669) Émile Michel
    12. Hieronymus Bosch and artworks Virginia Pitts Rembert
    13. Botticelli Émile Gebhart
    14. Discover the beauty of Baroque art Victoria Charles
    15. Van Dyck and artworks Natalia Gritsai
    16. Byzantine Art Charles Bayet
    17. Icons 120 illustrations Lyudmila Milyayeva
    18. Baroque Art Victoria Charles
    19. Egon Schiele Esther Selsdon
    20. Schiele Stéphanie Angoh
    21. A journey through Renaissance art Victoria Charles
    22. Renaissance Art Victoria Charles
    23. The world of Byzantine art unveiled Charles Bayet
    24. Rembrandt's Roughness Nicola Suthor
    25. Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt Xenia Egorova
    26. Fra Angelico Stephan Beissel
    27. Hieronymus Bosch Virginia Pitts Rembert
    28. Felicien Rops Patrick Bade
    29. Nicholas Roerich. East & West Kenneth Archer
    30. Diego Rivera Gerry Souter
    31. The Brueghels Victoria Charles
    32. Aubrey Beardsley Patrick Bade
    33. Chaïm Soutine Klaus H. Carl
    34. Jules Pascin: Art and intrigue Alexandre Dupouy
    35. Object Lessons in American Art Karl Kusserow
    36. Anthony Van Dyck Natalia Gritsai
    37. Rembrandt Klaus Carl
    38. Impressions of Ukiyo-E Dora Amsden
    39. Raphael and artworks Eugene Müntz
    40. Raphael - Volume 2 Eugène Müntz
    41. Leonardo da Vinci and artworks Gabriel Séailles
    42. Hans Holbein the younger Jeanette Zwingenberger
    43. Amedeo Modigliani Jane Rogoyska
    44. Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance Joseph Manca
    45. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and artworks Klaus Carl
    46. Paris - 20th century Véronique Laflèche