ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters.

Detailed explanation-2: -This exhibition explored John Ruskin’s inspiration for drawing, painting and writing about nature in his five-volume work ‘Modern Painters’. John Ruskin’s various early written and drawn responses to both the natural world and to the works of J.M.W.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1843 Ruskin published the first volume of Modern Painters, a book that would eventually consist of five volumes and occupy him for the next 17 years. His first purpose was to insist on the “truth” of the depiction of Nature in Turner’s landscape paintings.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is generally agreed that modernism in art originated in the 1860s and that the French painter Édouard Manet is the first modernist painter. Paintings such as his Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (’Luncheon on the Grass’) and Olympia are seen to have ushered in the era of modernism.