29 November 2011 – 26 February 2012 the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation , the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Tate Great Britain, the British Council present the exhibition “William Blake and British Visionary Art”
The exhibition is presented in the frame of the XXXI music festival “December Nights" (founded by Sviatoslav Richter) and will introduce the art heritage of the outstanding English poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) as well as works o such British masters of XIX–XX centuries as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Samuel Palmer, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Henry Fuseli, Francis Bacon and Cecil Collins to Moscow audience. These artists, in one way or another, appreciated Blake's spiritual experience and embodied it in their art works.
The core of the exhibition will be4 focused on etchings, watercolours and tempera by William Blake including “The Judgment of Paris”, “Newton”, “Apostle Paul and a Snake”, “Brothers bowed down to Joseph” “Damned Soul”, “Judgment Day”, “Pity”; Illustrations to Dante's “Divine Comedy”, Shakespeare, John Milton, Henry Spencer. Displayed together, these monuments will allow visitors not only to come closer to Blake’s complex messages but also to appreciate his contribution to the history of art.
Especially for this exhibition the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the British Council prepared interactive educational programme that will include round tables, meetings with exhibition curators, poets and translators.
The exhibition is organized by Tate Britain and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with the British Council. Other project participants are the British Museum (London), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), National Portrait Gallery (London), the Fitzwilliam Museum (Сambridge), the Whitworth Gallery (Manchester), Petworth House (West Sussex), Britten-Pears Foundation (Aldeburgh).
Partners of the Project – Rudomino All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature and the Magazine “Foreign Literature”
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