Talks | The Pre-Raphaelites & The Birth of Modernism with Dr Matthew Whyte at Triskel Arts Centre

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Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

The Pre-Raphaelites looked back to the art of the Middle Ages as an act of resistance, drawing from nature and literature to make evocative works. Meanwhile, The Realists sought an innovative solution that would shed light on the social inequalities that defined modern life by doing something never done before: depicting working class life as it really was.