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

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2022-08-01

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

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2022-05-08

‘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

Give to our appeal & choose 'Leafspray' as our gift to you: https://t.co/tIP2oDJFZY
📷 Insta

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2020-12-04

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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2020-09-22

No. 306

24/08/2014 - A Year In Beer.



Ruskin’s 3.9

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2020-08-24

‘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

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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2020-04-08

"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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2019-12-08

Wonderful to welcome new Japanese Companion & 5 colleagues to Ruskin’s Sheffield for 24 hours & proud for to receive his Studio-L’s annual Orange award on the Guild’s behalf, in honour of the inspiration they take from Ruskin today

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2019-11-01

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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2019-09-25

“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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2019-07-12

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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2019-06-05

Today's is 'Study of a piece of Brick' by Ruskin advocated regularly drawing natural forms as a means of understanding the character of nature. The weathered & mossy surface of the brick provided a lesson in observation to Ruskin’s students.

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2019-02-16

John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing brings together over 190 paintings, drawings, daguerreotypes, metal work, and more to illustrate how Ruskin’s attitude to aesthetic beauty shaped his radical views on culture and society Review; https://t.co/oadKGTkdaq

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2019-01-31

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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2018-08-08

Wallpaper at Brantwood Ruskin’s House Coniston Cumbria

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2018-01-27