Word: ruskinism
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...Nothing is ever at random in art," he said. "The persona begins with the name." And while he warned that "Wilson Knight is perhaps over-ingenious" in his derivations, he said that Arnold, who objected to Ruskin's remarks on Ophelia's name, "has no light to throw on Shakespeare and very little sweetness...
PAINTERS OF THE BEAUTIFUL-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. "Cockney impudence," snorted Ruskin at Whistler's painting. Whistler sued and won. The arrows the Victorians flung at one another had more zing than their painting, which they tried to free from what they called the "claptrap" of emotions. Albert Moore, Charles Conder and Lord Leighton come close to succeeding; Whistler, fortunately, does not. Beauty without feeling, after all, is like being dressed up with no place to go. Some 30 works in various media. Through March...
Most of the paintings are borrowed from the National Gallery and the Tate, although the high-quality copies in the state dining room are No. 10's own. The effect is tasteful, pleasing and unadventuresome. And perhaps it was the great English art theoretician John Ruskin who gave a clue why No. 10 should never be much altered. He wrote, of any ancient building: "Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown...
...could not speak of Jamaican Negroes without being insulting: "Sitting with their beautiful muzzles up to their ears in pumpkins, imbibing sweet pulps and juices; their grinder and incisor teeth ready for every new work while the sugar crops rot." Only slightly less violent were Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin and Charles Dickens; Novelist Charles Kingsley proposed that Eyre should be elevated to the peerage...
...better part of six years Figueres remained in the United States. Bent on a career of his own, he returned his family's checks and supported himself translating technical documents. In New York he continued his informal studies, reading Ruskin, the Fabians, and Laski with particular avidity...