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In 1871 he set up his own art school, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art which sought to challenge formal methods and rigid, mechanical teaching systems. He also promoted the virtues of public service and manual labor. Ruskin endowed the school with £5000 of his own money.
- British
- February 8, 1819
- Brunswick Square, London
- January 20, 1900
The School was originally founded to encourage artisanship and technical skills. It now provides undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in the production and study of visual art. The subject is taught as a living element of contemporary culture with a broad range of historical and theoretical references. [5]
Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal duty of the artist is "truth to nature". This meant rooting art in experience and close observation.
Ruskin's pleasure in landscape was the primary inspiration for his work in art, and it remained a 'ruling passion', but as his knowledge increased with experience, he was able to look on the source of his inspiration with a certain detachment.
Dec 4, 2023 · From instigating the Gothic Revival to inspiring the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Ruskin’s ideas had such a profound impact on the art of the time that he became the most influential thinker of 19th-century Britain. Read on to learn more about Ruskin’s key ideas.
From Ruskin’s enormous output, Clark distilled about 350 pages of prose on art and architecture, nature, society, and economics. His extracts are necessarily fragmentary, but, intentionally or otherwise, Clark’s editorial scheme deftly expresses Ruskin’s kinetic mind, which favored movement and change over a sustained and systematic argument.
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In ‘Ruskin, Whistler, and the Climate of Art in 1884’, Robbins focuses on Ruskin’s struggle to reconstruct climate as a coherent scientific object, or as a subject of textual and visual representation.
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