trip to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. A trip to see the work of Pre-Raphaelites, of which here is much, of which this museum is proud of. It was an immediate excitement from my friends part, which and who you can see smiling in front Last of England, by Ford Madox Brown . To see something which you have been given lectures on, which you have seen on PowerPoint presentations only, real life. This bright emotion added to the experience of this art, which was vivid and quite different from piece to piece. Strong colors, wide range of those and distinct shapes of bodies, faces, as well as sculpture, portray scenes, happenings,shapes and emotions of very distant origins. Some depict the beauty of women, some are based on The Bible, some combine the previous two. Others illustrate bittersweet love, but some are portraits of important figures and historical events, the context of the painters life at that time.
We went trough the whole museum, which holds a surprising variety of art, historical artifacts, one of which I saw for the first time, the mummy (astonishing it was, but a rather weird act- to have this on display) and tales of Birmingham, before we moved on to the Birmingham Cathedral, with an intention to see and sketch its stained glass windows by Birmingham born Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Brune-Jones. The portrayal of the life of Christ on for stained glass windows, of which I saw one due to reconstruction work, is done in a very clear, easily getting across way.
All Pre-Raphaelite, the paintings, the sculptures, the furniture, the stained glass, they share a sort of subtlety of emotion.
We went trough the whole museum, which holds a surprising variety of art, historical artifacts, one of which I saw for the first time, the mummy (astonishing it was, but a rather weird act- to have this on display) and tales of Birmingham, before we moved on to the Birmingham Cathedral, with an intention to see and sketch its stained glass windows by Birmingham born Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Brune-Jones. The portrayal of the life of Christ on for stained glass windows, of which I saw one due to reconstruction work, is done in a very clear, easily getting across way.
All Pre-Raphaelite, the paintings, the sculptures, the furniture, the stained glass, they share a sort of subtlety of emotion.