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Wednesday, April 22,
2009 at 7:30 p.m. A
lecture by Brenda Rix, in conjunction with the exhibition Sin and
Salvation: Holman Hunt
and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario,
February 14
- May 10, 2009. Holman
Hunt believed in the transformative power of art. He also believed in
the quality of the “brand” he had created and employed a variety of
marketing strategies to make his images and his message accessible to
the widest possible audience. This talk will highlight some of those
strategies while focusing on Hunt’s involvement in the world of black
and white printmaking. Hunt tried his hand at etching, designed
wood-engraved book illustrations, and commissioned large, engraved
translations of his paintings. When the painting The Light of the World
toured Canada and Australia in the early 20th century it was seen by
millions, but it was the elaborate engravings of the image that made it
the most famous work of art in the western world. Brenda Rix is Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings at the AGO, and author of the essay Prints: “Spreading theWord” in the exhibition catalogue Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision.
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