100 things blogging challenge: 67
The 100 things blogging challenge.
Tate Britain re-evaluates Victorian sentimentality:
This display brings Victorian sentimentality into the spotlight and considers a much maligned and misunderstood phenomenon.
Why has sentimentality come to seem so unforgivable? It might simply be a result of snobbery directed against art that appeals to popular taste, or because the emotive themes that recur in sentimental art - childhood and especially child death, forsaken love, animals, sunsets, heart-rending stories and pathetic scenes - now seem hackneyed. Alternatively, it could be the way the pictures invite (or manipulate) the viewer into an emotional response, using narrative, colour, light and shade and recurring symbols such as scattered flowers....
This display traces the development of sentimental art from its mid-Victorian heyday to its transformation into Symbolist emotional imagery at the end of the nineteenth century.
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