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William Holman Hunt “The Light of the World”

William Holman Hunt “The Light of the World”. Artist Background. Royal Academy art school Pre-Raphaelite Movement Fame for Religious Works Paintings noted for great attention to detail, hard vivid color and their elaborate symbolism.

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William Holman Hunt “The Light of the World”

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  1. William Holman Hunt “The Light of the World”

  2. Artist Background • Royal Academy art school • Pre-Raphaelite Movement • Fame for Religious Works • Paintings noted for great attention to detail, hard vivid color and their elaborate symbolism

  3. The closed door was the obstinately shut mind, the weeds the cumber of daily neglect, the accumulated hindrances of sloth; the orchard the garden of delectable fruit for the dainty feast of the soul. The music of the still small voice was the summons to the sluggard to awaken and become a zealous labourer under the Divine Master; the bat flitting about only in darkness was a natural symbol of ignorance; the kingly and priestly dress of Christ, the sign of His reign over the body and the soul, to them who could give their allegiance to Him and acknowledge God's overrule. In making it a night scene, lit mainly by the lantern carried by Christ, I had followed metaphorical explanation in the Psalms, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path,' with also the accordant allusions by St. Paul to the sleeping soul, "The night is far spent, the day is at hand." (I.350-51)

  4. Symbolism • EVERYTHING has meaning- symbolical and natural combine to make up the real • natural figures such as language had originally employed to express transcendental ideas • Iconography derived from obvious reflective-ness, NOT ecclesiastical or archaic symbolism

  5. Lighting • Spiritual significance • Lantern major source of light • Figure of Christ- “seen only by the light of the star of distant dawn, most light from lantern-to guide us in dark places”

  6. Inspired…. • John L. Tupper- “Light of the World” • “a house whose door no hands disturb, the ivy root had bit into the grain, there had not been, or knife or hand to curb, where grew the rankest thing, that would attain its natural will” • Robert Baynes’s- “The Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems”

  7. Sources • www.wikipedia.com • www.illusionsgallery.com • http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/whh/replete/light.html

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