The first major exhibition about the Aesthetic movement takes place in the V&A Museum of London, from the 2nd of April to the 17th of July.
Organised with the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay (Paris), it includes paintings, photographs, drawings, portraits, dresses and jewellery of the era, books, and sets evoking the rooms of the typical Aesthetic houses.
The exhibition is arranged in four chronological sections:
The 1860s: focused on romantic bohemians, Pre-Raphaelites and "Olympian" painters: William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, James McNeill Whistler, and G.F.Watts, as well as paintings by Rosetti and Leighton inspired by their muses Lizzie Sidal and "La Nanna".
The1870s-1880s: focused on the influence between artists and designers for the development of innovative furniture inflenced by Greek and Japanese art: the painter's studio and The White House by James McNeill Whistler and the architect E.W.Godwin.
The 1870s-1880s: focused on decorative arts and its role in the decoration of Aesthetic houses: furniture, ceramics, domestic metalwork and textiles of Walter Crane and Christopher Dresser.
The 1880s-1890s: focused on black-and-white drawings of Aubrey Beardsley in The Yellow Book, bronze sculptures by Alfred Gilbert, concluding with painting masterpieces, such as Leighton's Bath of Psyche, Moore's Midsummer and Rossetti's The Daydream.
As well as the exhibition itself, interesting events are scheduled, such as a discussion about Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and its adaptation with the film, or a guided tour of Chelsea homes of famous Aesthetes and Tite Street artist's studio.
I will return from the exhibition with all the material and feedback I can obtain to feed this humble blog. Meanwhile, do not miss to visit the exhibition blog, where there is a nice video introduction to Aestheticism movement for the uninitiated in the fieldhttp://www.vam.ac.uk/things-to-do/blogs/creating-cult-beauty
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