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Guided Tour of Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites Exhibition.
Sat, 11 Jan
|The Barber Institute of Fine Art
Christina Bradstreet, guest curator of Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites exhibition will give a guided tour of the exhibition.
Time & Location
11 Jan 2025, 13:00 – 15:00
The Barber Institute of Fine Art, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TS, UK
Guests
About the event
SCENT AND THE ART OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITES.
Scent is a important motif in paintings by the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movements. Fragrance is visually suggested in images of daydreaming figures smelling flowers or burning incense, enhancing the sensory aura of 'art for art sake'. Scent was also implied in Victorian painting to evoke hedonism - pleasure in exquisite sensations - and a preoccupation with beauty; or to reflect the Victorian vogue for synaesthesia (evoking one sense through another) and the penchant for art, like scent, to evoke moods and emotions.
Join Christina Bradstreet, Guest Curator of Scent and the Art of the Pre-Rphaelites at the Barber Institute to hear more about her research and the ideas conveyed in this show such as how motifs of scent and smell intersected with some of the most vociferous discourses of the day.
Christina Bradstreet is Guest Curator of Scent and the…
Tickets
- Sale ends: 04 Jan 2025, 17:00
General Admission
From £10.00 to £12.00- £10.00+£0.25 service fee
- £12.00+£0.30 service fee
Total
£0.00