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Kingfisher, John Ruskin, 1871.

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2023-02-17

English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath, was born 1819
The Wealth Of Life https://t.co/QEbY11K7uJ
"To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one."

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2023-02-09

Today is the 204th birthday of John Ruskin, who founded the Guild & whose ideas & ideals inspire our work today. Our logo, taken from Ruskin's copy of Carpaccio's St George, symbolises the challenge then & now: how might we tame the dragon of unfettered industrial capitalism?

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2023-02-08

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

✒️ English author, critic, and academic, was 8 February 1819.

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2023-02-08

John Ruskin, English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the era d. 1900
The Wealth Of Life https://t.co/QEbY11KFkh
'There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which...'

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2023-01-21

"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most."- John Ruskin, 
Miniature art on canvas workshop by Khanoom Jaipur.
https://t.co/z4K3bU5Xuu

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2022-08-12

Despite the misandrist effort of ‘Effie Gray’ film to shrink the colossal genius of Ruskin into impotence (‘ha! Lol! In front of his parents too!’) his birthday lets us salute one of the finest visionaries of the last 250 years.
Happy Birthday, Ruskin, thanks for the new colours

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2022-02-08

Happy birthday, John Ruskin, born 1819 and still shaking things up. Come and hear me explain why we are all living in at the Barnes Literary Society on Feb 22 https://t.co/fxyWcN8zNk

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2022-02-08

For Ruskin, mountain landscapes were also places to reflect on our role as stewards of the natural world, across borders & time.

‘The Ararat of Moses's time, the Olympus of Homer’s, are practically the same mountains now, that they were then.’

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2021-11-19


'All art is but dirtying the paper delicately'
- John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing
This drawing is 'St Mark’s, Venice. Sketch after Rain', Watercolour on paper by Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

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2021-09-20

John Ruskin, Architectural Study: Three Sections of a Venetian Arcade, 19th century https://t.co/eQwSxtVVft

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2021-09-05

Art swot the apple again! It’sHamilton Hamilton, protégé of Ruskin, Barbizon hanger-on and East coast slicker. He loved a bit of yellow did HH! https://t.co/g9ZMHdkyTs

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2021-05-21

John Ruskin, Architectural Study: Three Sections of a Venetian Arcade, 19th century https://t.co/eQwSxtVVft

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2021-04-27

John peintre, critique d'art et écrivain britannique naît 8 février 1819. Dessinateur de grand talent (notamment de monuments), aquarelliste, proche de Turner et des Préraphaélites, admiré de Proust qui traduit deux de ses livres.
https://t.co/6HOqx51FpB

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2021-02-08

I doesn’t look good for the kingfishers in Holland with the forecast of a long time with frost and extreme cold up to minus 20 celsius. John Ruskin, Study of a Kingfisher, 1871, collection

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2021-02-08

Died 1900 at Brantwood, his home in the Lake District, John whose influence in many spheres can never be over-estimated https://t.co/Oaab6lKM5u

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2021-01-20

Architectural Study: Three Sections of a Venetian Arcade, John Ruskin, 19th century https://t.co/eQwSxtVVft

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2020-09-14

‘Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud’ is longlisted for the Berger Prize for British Art History 2020. Published for & ed. Richard Johns & , writers - including The Ruskin's Sandra Kemp - explore Ruskin’s relevance for his time and our own.

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2020-06-12

John Ruskin, Coastal Scene Near Dunbar, 1847

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2019-12-31