Art Matters Lecture: Malcolm Warner - April 7, 2022

"Van Gogh the Anglophile: Looking Through his Eyes at Victorian Art" As a pioneer of the modern movement, Van Gogh seems an unlikely fan of what we call Victorian art. But his time in London left him with a love of English painting and illustration. He looked up to the pre-eminent English painter, John Everett Millais, and collected gritty, working-class images from London magazines. “For me,” he wrote to his brother Theo in 1882, “one of the highest and noblest expressions of art is always that of the English.” -------------------------------- CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- https://www.sbma.net​​​​ Facebook -   / sbmuseart​​​​   Instagram -   / sbmuseart​​​​   Twitter -   / sbmuseart