George F. Watts: 122 Paintings and Drawings: Volume 31 (Annotated Masterpieces) - Softcover

Tsaneva, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506132545 ISBN 13: 9781506132549

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

George Frederic Watts was a admired English Victorian artist related with the Symbolist movement. He became famous his allegorical works "Love and Life" and "Hope." These paintings were in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language. Watts was a hard-working artist who twice refused a baronetcy and other honors, including an offer to become president of the Royal Academy. His declared aims were clear: to paint pictures that appealed 'to the intellect and refined emotions rather than the senses': "I paint ideas, not things. I paint primarily because I have something to say, and since the gift of eloquent language has been denied to me, I use painting; my intention is not so much to paint pictures which shall please the eye, as to suggest great thoughts which shall speak to the imagination and to the heart and arouse all that is best and noblest in humanity."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1506132545
• ISBN 13: 9781506132549
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124