Useless Quote for 17 Jan:
" … in the wild struggle after novelty, the fantastic is mistaken for the graceful, the complicated for the imposing, superfluity of ornament for beauty, and its total absence for simplicity."
John Ruskin, Introduction to "Poetry of Architecture" (1837-38)
The most common search that gets people to my site is:
"which #Victorian writer hated millais's Christ in the House of His Parents" (It must be a question on some junior college art history test.)
You can find out in this #essay, "How one bad review can really change your life-
#JohnEverettMillais, #CharlesDickens, and the #PreRaphaelite vision."
Read it here: https://www.nealvonflue.com/one-bad-review/
#writing #art #artist #ArtHistory #creative #history #ArtCriticism #JohnRuskin
#johnruskin #artcriticism #history #creative #arthistory #artist #art #writing #preraphaelite #charlesdickens #JohnEverettMillais #essay #victorian
Just listened to #RonaldHutton on #FairyTales and now off on a hunt for #JohnRuskin fairy stories. It was great, fairy stories and folklore and styles of traditional tales. Thanks to #TheLastTuesdaySociety a great night as usual @floklore
#ronaldhutton #fairytales #johnruskin #thelasttuesdaysociety
"That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin."
—John Ruskin. Unto This Last (1860) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unto_This_Last. Full text: https://archive.org/details/ruskinuntothislast/page/58/mode/1up?view=theater. #JohnRuskin #UntoThisLast #Quotations #Quotes
#quotes #quotations #UntoThisLast #johnruskin
John Ruskin (England 1819-1900) A Vineyard Walk, Lucca 1874. Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as a prominent social thinker & philanthropist. He wrote on subjects such as geology, architecture, ornithology, literature, botany & economics #JohnRuskin #wine
#8 John Ruskin - Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats. Llanerch Publishers, Felinfach, 1991, facsimile reprint. #JohnRuskin #DameWiggins #LlanerchPublishers
#johnruskin #damewiggins #llanerchpublishers
> .. in 1819 #JeanSismondi sought to define a new approach to political economy with human welfare, not wealth accumulation, as its goal.. #JohnRuskin followed him in the 1860s.. against the economic thinking of his day.. ‘There is no wealth but life … That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings.’.. #Gandhi discovered Ruskin’s book in the early 1900s.. [for] creating an economy that elevated the moral being.
#KateRaworth's #DoughnutEconomics
#doughnuteconomics #kateraworth #gandhi #johnruskin #JeanSismondi
RT @ArtistRuskin
Piazza Santa Maria del Pianto, 1840 #romanticism #johnruskin
The Desk of John Ruskin https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2019/7/4/the-desk-of-john-ruskin
John Ruskin bought the, at the time, rather dilapidated Brantwood house in 1871 for £1,500, roughly equivalent to £175,222 in today’s money.
#architecture #interior #photography #history #historical #johnruskin #brantwood #coniston #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england
#england #britain #uk #cumbria #lakedistrict #coniston #brantwood #johnruskin #historical #history #photography #interior #architecture