Starts Friday 10th February, 10-12 noon
10 February 2023 - 17 February 2023
2 weeks, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CWEA, Christchurch
Banish stereotypes and see Victorian society through the eyes of two artists, Edward Lear and John Ruskin. Explore this Victorian context when it comes to developing a singular sort of creativity. Lear is perhaps best known for nonsense poems like "The Owl and the Pussy Cat". Lear was a polymath whowrote travel books, taught people to capture their experiences as grand tourists in Europe and was a sensationalist when it came to painting exotic places in the sublime tradition. Ruskin, likewise, was a writer of books about aesthetics, and also taught grand tourists the drawing techniques necessary to capture the essence of growing plants, trees and the architectural styles of Roman and Greek buildings. As a socialist his view was that " No man can become rich without exploiting at least seven other people".
