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Time, Death and Judgement
#GeorgeFredericWatts (1817–1904)
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March 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Iron Man - Based on Sir Galahad by George Frederic Watts.

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March 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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“Love and Death”, 1908
painting by #GeorgeFredericWatts
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July 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Paolo and Francesca (1872)
By George Frederic Watts
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February 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Another dead Symbolist painter; this one British. #GeorgeFredericWatts (1817-1904) was a member of the Royal Academy and became quite well known in his lifetime. His themes were allegorical. This oil painting is known as The All Pervading.
May 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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‘Edith Villiers’, George Frederic Watts, 1862. #preraphaeliteart #preraphaelite #victorianart #arthistory #art #watts #georgefredericwatts
June 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Choosing. 1864, George Frederic Watts.
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Portrait of Dame Alice Ellen Terry. Created by George Frederic Watts.
July 4, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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Hope. 1886, George Frederic Watts.
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July 2, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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#theminotaur #georgefredericwatts #VisioDivina #painting #meditation June 4th, 2026. G. E. Schwartz
June 4, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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George Frederic Watts #georgefredericwatts
April 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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George Frederic Watts #georgefredericwatts
February 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The sower of the systems. George Frederic Watts.
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A great being creats the universe.
July 2, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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“Hope (second version)” by George Frederic Watts (British) - Oil on canvas / 1886 - Tate Britain (London, England) #WomenInArt #art #hope #artText #Symbolism #Watts #GeorgeFredericWatts #TateBritain #Tate #BritishArt #BritishArtist #allegory #BlueskyArt #FineArt #bskyart #artwork #oilpainting #1880s
A young light-skinned woman, blindfolded, sits on a small cloud-wreathed globe that tilts under her bare feet. Her body curls inward; head bowed, cheek turned toward a simple wooden lyre cradled in her lap. All but one of the lyre’s strings are broken; her right hand lightly plucks the lone survivor while her left steadies the frame. Pale, classical drapery clings to her shoulders and knees, its folds rendered in muted blue-greys that merge with the atmosphere. The background is an expansive, mottled blue with no clear horizon; faint light rims her form and grazes the globe’s edge. The mood is hushed and strained as if suspended between despair and endurance. Nothing distracts: no landscape, crowd, or architecture, only the figure, the globe, the nearly silent instrument, and the enveloping blue. British artist George Frederic Watts’s “Hope” redefined a time-honored allegory. Rather than anchor or flowering rod, he gives Hope a nearly voiceless lyre and a blindfold that make expectation feel precarious and inward. In 1885, he described his vision as “Hope sitting on a globe… playing on a lyre which has all the strings broken but one… trying to get all the music possible,” a picture of listening as much as believing. He created multiple versions, but it was this second version which became the best-known iteration and was transferred to the new Tate Gallery in 1897. Its simplified setting, restrained palette, and dissolving edges situate the work within late Victorian Symbolism while resisting easy consolation. “Hope” quickly entered public consciousness through studio photographs and prints, provoked debate among critics, and later resonated in religious and civic life; preachers and politicians alike drew on its image of tenacious listening in the dark. Yet its power remains painterly as much as emblematic: the composition compresses world, body, and sound to a single, straining line, asking what music or meaning can be made when almost everything is broken.
September 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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George Frederic Watts #georgefredericwatts
February 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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George Frederic Watts #georgefredericwatts
February 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Sower of the Systems (1902) by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904).

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February 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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George Frederic Watts #georgefredericwatts
February 25, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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20 days. 20 pieces of art. Post a work of art that has influenced or impacted you in some way. No explanations. Just art.

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Painting that shows a lone blindfolded female figure sitting on a globe, playing a lyre that has only a single string remaining. The background is almost blank, its only visible feature a single star.
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Paolo and Francesca (1847, 1870 & 1872-84)
by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)
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June 30, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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« Hope » (Second Version) by George Frederic Watts

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September 5, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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« Hope » (Second Version) by George Frederic Watts

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December 6, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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« Hope » (First Version) by George Frederic Watts

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November 3, 2023 at 12:57 AM
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« Hope » (First Version) by George Frederic Watts

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November 2, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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« Hope » (Second Version) by George Frederic Watts

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December 7, 2023 at 1:09 AM
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« Hope » (Third Version · Rainbow Version) By George Frederic Watts

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October 19, 2024 at 7:12 PM