Serious Moonlight: the Art and Times of the Neo Romantics

Moons are in, half moons are really selling! Thus said John Minton, encouraging his fellow artists in their efforts to wring art from the darkness and deprivations of wartime Britain. Ironic, self-mocking yet also passionately committed; inheritors of a tradition stretching from the Book of Kells through William Blake and Samuel Palmer to JMW Turner, the Neo-Romantics reflected the tensions of their uncertain world in landscape paintings.

Lecturer: Justine Hopkins. Justine studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. Has lectured regularly for Tate Britain, Tate Modern, V&A, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, as well as to Oxford and Bristol Universities. Publications include, amongst others, The Art of John Martin (2001), Michael Ayrton: A Biography (1994) and articles for Apollo Magazine and Modern Painters.

Image credit: ArtUK and The Mercer Art Gallery