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25/03/2023 18:30～

"George Frederic Watts style touch" AI painting exhibition

The theme of this AI painting exhibition is February 23, 1817 - July 1, 1904), a British Victorian era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts style touch.

Watts is best known for his allegorical works such as Hope (1885)[1] and Love and Life. These paintings are an attempt to picturize a series of epoch-making Symbolist sonnets called "House of Life," which sought to express life's emotions and aspirations in a universal symbolic language.

Watts was born in Marylebone, London. He was the son of a poor piano maker and a sensitive child. He showed his talent from a very early age, taking sculpture lessons with William Benes at the age of ten and entering the Royal Academy of Arts at eighteen. In 1843 he entered a contest to design murals for the Palace of Westminster, which was being rebuilt. Watts won his first prize in the contest, which called for narrative paintings on patriotic themes deemed appropriate by Congress. Although he ultimately contributed little to the decoration of the Palace of Westminster, from this time Watts envisioned the building covered in murals depicting the spiritual and social evolution of man. became.

In the mid-1840s, Watts visited Italy and was strongly inspired by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel. Back in England, Watts searched for a building where he could paint his own murals, but was unable to find one. As a result, most of Watts' work was conventional oil painting, some of which was intended as a study of House of Life.

・Representative work
hope
love and life
physical energy


・Reference source
wikipedia George Frederick Watts

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