Before History Painting: Enclosed Experience and the Emergent Body in tthe Work of G. F. Watts

From: Visual Culture in Britain | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Trodd, Colin | Copyright information

[Watts produced] decorative stories . . . with areas of crude warring colour, applied within a strongly marked contour, or huge turgid allegories, expressing a trite, rather literary, symbolism . . . Watts was one of the last grand allegorical history painters in the Haydon tradition of 'High Art': a type of picture based on high-minded generalisation, or abstractions, expressed with idealised forms, and a striving for sublime feeling that results in a numbing divorce from reality, physical a...

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