Visited exhibition Ruskin’s Perspectives: The Art of Abstraction at Brantwood House today. Great stuff

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John Ruskin’s Kingfisher.
I’m partial to an art critic who could Kingfisher!

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‘If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world’

in Autumn? Ruskin’s 'Leafspray' echoes the colours as the leaves fall along canal

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Walking through town & thinking about the news. Fearful for the future of our Arts & wild spaces
I remember words:
‘A nation cannot last as a money-making mob…-it cannot go on despising literature, despising art, despising nature, despising passion‘

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No. 306

24/08/2014 - A Year In Beer.



Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

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‘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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From expansive skies, to microscopic shells: your Ruskin a view across the sea toward the Hebrides, has reminded us of Ruskin’s seashells, preserving ‘something like a true image of beautiful things that pass away, or which you must yourself leave.’ https://t.co/yX5bNrfQL7

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"thought and said," Leo Tolstoy once noted, "what everyone will think and say in the future." He wasn’t wrong.

In a time of climate change and consumerism, Ruskin’s work is prescient—gauge at what level by visiting our galleries today thru 5 pm.

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Tomorrow, 26 September 2019, our new exhibition 'Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future' opens, exploring the continuing contemporary relevance of Ruskin’s works. We’re open from 10am! 🖼️ 🏛️

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“Ruskin knew what he was experiencing in the industrial revolution was changing our world.” Artist Emma Stibbon recreated Ruskin’s Alpine journey, compare her photo of the Mer de Glace with Ruskin’s daguerreotype from 1854

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Feel lucky to have had the chance to see ’s fantastic exhibit on Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud. It was visually beautiful, of course, but I was equally struck by the poetry of Ruskin’s art criticism, which I haven’t read in years and need to revisit.

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Whistler’s near-abstract Nocturne in Black & Gold: The Falling Rocket (1875) ~ critic John Ruskin likened it to a coxcomb “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face”. Ensuing libel action led to Ruskin’s mental collapse & derisory damages of a farthing to a bankrupted Whistler

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