DESIGN ARTS
12.16.09
DESIGN ARTS, Fashion Design, Art Nouveau Fashion, Medieval Fashion, VISUAL ARTS, Pre-20th-Century Art, Painting in Britain
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see their current exhibition, John William Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantement. Not only is an exhibition like this a unique experience (it has been since the 1970s since Waterhouse had his last retrospective show), but it is a chance to see some of the most beautiful, romantic, and magical paintings of the late nineteenth century. Waterhouse is a bit of a sphinx; not a lot is known about his life. Although he left behind a great body of work, the man himself remains to this day a bit of a mystery. His work is often associated with the style of the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the mid