Art Appreciation 101

It’s art appreciation time. I know—groan. It’s not so bad, really. Think of it as an on-line humanities class.


We have here Flaming June in brilliant orange. This is a painting I have always loved. It was executed by the fabulously successful and still-influential Victorian painter Lord Frederic Leighton. His paintings brilliantly captured the Victorian nostalgia and longing for the glorious "Golden Age" of ancient Greece and Rome. Leighton depicted an idealized vision of the past that perfectly appealed to the sensibilities of the time.




There now. That didn't hurt a bit, did it.