British Orientalist Painting at the Tate Gallery The Lure of the East [Archives:2008/1169/Last Page]
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July 3 2008
According to John Ruskin “amongst the most wonderful pictures in the world”: John Frederick Lewis’s A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai
Artistic master of his subject: John Frederick Lewis painted An Armenian Lady in Cairo in 1855
The Tate Gallery's exhibition on British Orientalist Painting explores the responses of British artists to the cultures and landscapes of the Near and Middle East between 1780 and 1930. Susannah Tarbush found out that the exhibits are more than just representations of an \”imperialist gaze\””
The cover of the catalogue for the exhibition \””The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting\”” shows the 1881 oil painting An Arab Interior by Scottish artist Arthur Melville. This captivating work portrays a white-bearded man
