Painter: William Holman Hunt (1827.)4.2 - 1910.9.7）
Nationality: British.
Painting: The Children's Holiday Children's Day.
Type: Oil on canvas.
Size: 213cm 146cm
Date: 1864-1865.
Collection: Torre Abbey - Torbay, Devon Torrey Abbey (UK).
The depiction of modern life in the Victorian city constitutes the most radical achievement of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their allies. Even before Ruskin defended Pre-Raphaeliteism in 1851 and praised the "unforgiving truth" of "fair paintings," the Brotherhood's journal Sprout published an article calling on artists to draw from everyday life. The following passage by sculptor John Lucas Tupper can be seen as a manifesto for almost all works of modern life in Victoria:
If every poet, every painter, every sculptor recognized that his best and most original ideas originated in his own time; If all his education of piety, truth, charity, fraternity, honor, honesty, bravery, generosity, and courage were of the same origin; So why move them to a distant time and make them useless today? Why should we be taught to honor the ancient saints and not to the idols of our own families? Why worship the spear-armed knights and not the ninjas of doom? Why use the sword we never carry to help the oppressed girl, instead of using the purse we carry to help the wrongdoer? ......Why teach us to hate Nero or a man like Appius instead of hating those who oppress workers and betray women and children?
"I don't care about the crying in the near distance, do you care about the crying in the distance?" —Li Dan, "Wonderful Sayings".
Pre-Raphaelite