Legion of Honor opens The Cult of Beauty. The Victorian Avant-Garde
The Legion of Honor presents The Cult of Beauty. The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860-1900, an exhibition on view February 18, 2012 – June 17, 2012.
John William Waterhouse, Saint Cecilia, 1895, oil on canvas. Private Collection
The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900 is the first major exhibition to explore the unconventional creativity of the British Aesthetic Movement, tracing the evolution of this movement from a small circle of progressive artists and poets, through the achievements of innovative painters and architects, to its broad impact on fashion and the middle-class home. The superb artworks on view encompass the manifold forms of Victorian material culture: the traditional high art of painting, fashionable trends in architecture and interior decoration, handmade and manufactured furnishings for the “artistic” home, art photography and the new modes of dress.
The Cult of Beauty showcases the entirety of the Aesthetic Movement’s output, celebrating the startling beauty and variety of creations by masters as diverse as artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, and Edward Burne-Jones and designers E.W. Godwin, William Morris and Christopher Dresser. The Legion of Honor is the only U.S. venue on the world tour that includes the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Exhibition organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park 100 34th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121
415.750.3600
www.legionofhonor.famsf.org
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