Romantic, Nationalistic and Nostalgic: the art of Eric Ravilious
Ravilious (1903 – 42) was a painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in East Sussex, and is best known for his watercolours and prints which examine English landscape and vernacular subjects with an original, modernist clarity. He served as a WW2 artist, and died when the aircraft he was in was lost at sea.
This illustrated talk will present Ravilious’ prolific, yet short, career in the context of how ‘fine’ and ‘applied’ art are critically regarded, and give an overview of this popular artist’s work, much inspired by the Sussex Downland.
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Ravilious (1903 – 42) was a painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in East Sussex, and is best known for his watercolours and prints which examine English landscape and vernacular subjects with an original, modernist clarity. He served as a WW2 artist, and died when the aircraft he was in was lost at sea.
This illustrated talk will present Ravilious’ prolific, yet short, career in the context of how ‘fine’ and ‘applied’ art are critically regarded, and give an overview of this popular artist’s work, much inspired by the Sussex Downland.
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