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The E-BNR aims to build a comprehensive & unique cross-artform guide to
the British neo-Romantic tradition,
from 1880 to the present day.
While the British Romantics of 1789-1824 have spawned a vast industry of
publishers, conferences & tourism, the later neo-Romantic traditions
remain largely neglected. The E-BNR is aimed at bringing this hidden
tradition to light.
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WHAT IS NEO-ROMANTICISM ?
Neo-Romantic artists have drawn their inspiration
from artists of the age of Romanticism or earlier.
Characteristic themes in their work include a
mystical approach to the British landscape...
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ENTRY: Colquhoun, Ithell
Ithell Colquhoun (b. 1906 — d. 1988) was a British Surrealist
painter and author. She was also an author, playwright, and poet.
Colquhoun was born in Shillong, Assam, British India. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London,
and later travelled to France to study the Surrealist masters,
especially Salvador Dalí. However she was actually expelled from the
London Surrealist Group for not giving her unconditional support to E.L.T. Mesens in 1940.
From the 1930s to her death, her work was exhibited widely in Britain and Germany.
She accompanied her paintings with surrealist fantasy writings.
Best known for her paintings, Colquhoun invented new Surrealist techniques,
including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.
Throughout her life she was deeply interested in mysticism and the occult, especially the
Kabbalistic tree of life. Her early membership to the Golden Dawn was rejected,
but she later became a member of the similar O.T.O.
Colquhoun died in 1988 in Cornwall, where she had lived most of her life.
L'Ascension (1974)
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