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ENTRY: Birmingham Group
The Birmingham Group were an important school of artists,
one of the last outposts of late Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important
link between the last of the Pre-Raphaelites and the new Slade Symbolists.
Members included, among others:
Joseph Southall Maxwell Armfield Conroy Maddox Arthur Joseph Gaskin John Melville Sidney H. Meteyard Henry Payne Charles March Gere Bernard Creswick Bernard Sleigh The Group began to form in an informal manner in the 1890s, and the Group has a long life. Many were later to become teachers in Birmingham (especially at the great Birmingham Municipal School of Art under Edward R. Taylor), and this meant that the style and themes of Edward Burne-Jones influenced all those who studied at the Birmingham art schools. Many were also heavily influenced by the ideas and practices of John Ruskin and William Morris, and had indeed personally known those men. Several had undertaken work for the Kelmscott Press, with Charles March Gere producing the famous frontpeice to News from Nowhere. Some of their members later became part of the Birmingham Surrealists group of artists, thus carrying to Surrealism the rich vein of Romantic concern with emotional states in pictures, with myth and fantasy, with visions, and with a "natural supernaturalist" experience conveyed through art. The Fine Art Society held an extensive exhibition of Birmingham Group works in 1969.
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