W. Hunt Pre Raphaelite Poetry of Truth----Alfred W. Hunt and the Art of Landscape

by Newall, Christopher; Wilcox, Scott

• ISBN13: 9781854441966
• ISBN10: 1854441965
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-17
• Publisher: Ashmolean Museum

Summary

Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896) was one of the most original of the progressive English Victorian painters who introduced a new intensity and meticulousness to landscape painting. He began his career, not as an artist, but as a winner of the Newdigate Prize (as John Ruskin before him) and a scholar at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. Essays touch on this transition. Initially, Hunt merged Ruskin's 'truth to nature' principles with Pre-Raphaelite notions on observing nature. Then in the mid-1860s, he abandoned bright colors in favor of more muted and generalized treatments with atmospheric and tonal effects (Hunt was one of the few of his generation to be inspired by J.M.W. Turner). His new aesthetic sealed his reputation

Table of Contents

Alfred William Hunt : the parabola of pre-Raphaelitism	p. 1
'Sympathy with nature' : Hunt's reflections on landscape painting in the nineteenth century	p. 35
The catalogue	p. 51
The sketchbooks of Alfred William Hunt in the Ashmolean Museum	p. 173
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