Painted and painting ladies
According to a review in today's Guardian, this exhibition, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters at the National Portrait Gallery is a bit of a disappointment: [T]he heroic women behind the frilly-shirted bro-fest: [T]hat this exhibition seems to make a less forceful case for them as a creative force is perhaps a question of venue: the National Portrait Gallery is not the place for Jane Morris’s wonderful embroidery, for example. This is not the place to cherish craft. The focus remains the human figure, for the most part still female, and for the most part still painted by men.
There was, however, an interesting piece last week by Kathryn Hughes: More than tragic muses: female pre-Raphaelite artists finally take flight. Might be worth seeing?
But on an entirely different note: major exhibition on Artemesia Gentileschi at the National Gallery, next year This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2990140.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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