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Publisher
National Portrait Gallery Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (the 'PRB') exhibited their first works in 1849 it heralded a revolution in British art. Styling themselves the "Young Painters of England", this group of young men aimed to overturn stale Victorian artistic conventions and challenge the previous generation with their startling colours and compositions. Think of the images created by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others in...
Publisher
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Women Painting Women explores nearly fifty female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. International in scope and spanning the late 1960s to the present, Women Painting Women recognizes female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration. Painting is the focus, as traditionally it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, particularly for white men. The women in this presentation range...
