John Ruskin 1819 1900 reporter members Life Works

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Life • John Ruskin was born in London on 8 February 1819. • His childhood was characterised by his father and mother. • His father loved books, pictures and traveling, who introduced him beautiful sceneries, building and pictures. • His mother was a religious woman, who made him read the Bible, the Genesis, the Apocalypse, year in year out.

• Ruskin entered the University of Oxford at 17, 1836. • A attack of consumption made him leave the univerity in 1840. • For two years he traveled and studied art and architecture in Europe. During these trips, he formed his own aesthrtic thought and gathered materials for his book Modren Painters.

• The Modren Painters made him famous as aart critic. • After 1860 Ruskin turned his attention to social problems, and his literary career witnessed a transition from art criticism to social criticism. • Ruskin undertook many artistic and social activities. • He died in 1900, with solitude and mental disorder.

Works • Majar works in the sphere of art criticism: • Modern Painters(1843 -1860)《� 代画家》 • The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) 《建筑的七� 灯》 • The Stones of Venice (1851 -1853)《威尼斯 的石建筑》

• The King of the Golden River(1851)《金 河之王》(for children ) • Unto this Last (1862)《� 至今日》 • Munera Pulveris(1872)《�� 学�� 》 • Sesame and Lilies(1865)《芝麻百合》 • Praeterita(unfinished)《� 往昔的日子》

Art Criticism • 1. The object of art is to find and express the truth in nature. • 2. Art is allied with morality. • 3. Art is not a matter of taste, but involves people's life. • 4. He disliked modern capitalist civilization.

Social criticism • 1. The transition of Ruskin's career from art criticism to social criticism was the natural outcome of his aesthetic though. • 2. Ruskin's transition to social criticism caused a change in his style. What had been gorgeous and rhythmical now became simple and eloquent.

Comments • John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, an art patron, a philanthropist , a prominent social thinker and a master of English.