Sunday, November 15, 2015

Birmingham City Art Gallery


Rossetti's eighth and final version of Proserpine (1882) in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

H. Wallis - The Stonebreaker 57
(Poor Law)
Subsumed back into the earth

DG Rossetti & Madox Brown
Beata Beatrix 77
Decorated gold frame - Klimt influence
Deathly beauty
Eliz Siddal (DG's wife)

DGR
Proserpine 81/2
Jane Morris
Only auburn version of 8 - JM was dark
Cf Eve (forbidden fruit)

Simeon Solomon
A Deacon 63
Cf Caravaggio - dark & gay
Compare his face to Proserpine - sensual lips

Wallis
Death of Chatterton 55/6
Small version (big in Tate)

Millais
The proscribed royalist 1651 52/3
Cavalier is Arthur hughes
Lovely chamber scale
Romantic

Madox Brown
An Eng Autumn afternoon 52/3
Hampstead

FMB
Work 63
Heath St

Sandys
Medea 66/8
Klimt
Gilt bg
Women as sorceress cf Morgan Le fay

Holman Hunt
Finding of saviour in temple
54/60
Jesus has got the vibe
Intensity of Preraph

Academic - cold
Bizarre medievalism
Intensity of feeling
Accuracy of detail

William Russell Flint
Silver & Gold 1931
Odalisque
Gatsby
Cheeky nip

Sidney Meteyard - Hope Comforting Love in Bondage (1901)
cf Burne-Jones - Pygmalion & the Image - hopes for love, courtly love, worshipping the female

The Staffordshire Hoard

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