Henry Wallis, Chatterton, 1856

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Henry Wallis, Chatterton, 1856발음듣기

(lively music) Dr. Harris: We're in Tate Britain and we're looking at Henry Wallis' Chatterton from 1856.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Chatterton was an 18th century writer who killed himself when he was 17 years old with arsenic and that's what being depicted here.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: Chatterton was a very popular figure among romantic writers.발음듣기

He was the misunderstood genius who was exploited and underpaid for his craft.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Chatterton would have a relatively, successful commercial career as a writer in London.발음듣기

That's not to say that he was well paid but he was well published.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: When his account book was looked at after his death, it turns out that Chatterton had been really underpaid for his writing.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: But what's most interesting is not so much the life of Chatterton, the subject but the treatment that Chatterton receives in the 19th century.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: I think that one reason for his popularity among the romantics was this idea of the misunderstood and underpaid artist who I think many artists of the 19th century could relate to.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Let's take a look at Wallis' treatment.발음듣기

You have that figure backlit.발음듣기

Light coming in from the small window in this garret.발음듣기

A small attic like space that would be let out to the less fortunate.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: And you can see outside, a view of Saint Paul's, the city of London where Chatterton lived.발음듣기

And then other signs of poverty.발음듣기

A small wooden table, a very spare candleholder where the candle's been completely burned down.발음듣기

You can just make out the smoke rising.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: And of course, there's symbolism there.발음듣기

The candle has burned down, suggests the end of his life.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: We also see a rose that has similar significance.발음듣기

It's dying there.발음듣기

Its petals are accumulating on the window.발음듣기

So, it doesn't have much longer.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: But none of this is generalized.발음듣기

All this is extraordinarily specific.발음듣기

The handling, the rendering is so much in the Pre-Raphaelite style.발음듣기

There is a strong linear quality and particularity.발음듣기

Look for instance at the vividness of the shadows cast by the knots on the bed spread.발음듣기

There is this recognition of the value of this precise handling of the most seemingly, insignificant element of this room.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: We also see a lot of precision in the torn up writings that we see on the left and the gleaming metal of the latch of that trunk and the way that light just shines slightly on the interior.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: There's also a very unusual use of color from mid-19th century painting.발음듣기

Look at his red hair against the greenish cast of his skin or the way that the artist is playing light and deep blues against the purples in his breeches.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: And those colors come alive even more because of that brown coverlet.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: And the fact that Wallis, like other Pre-Raphaelites is painting on white ground rather than painting on a dark ground.발음듣기

The painting is full of specific anecdotes of the story.발음듣기

You can see down by his hand, not only his shoe has been cast off but you can see the bottle of arsenic.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: And he's very much in the pose of a pieta.발음듣기

So, we can really think of him as an artist martyr like Christ Himself.발음듣기

I think that idea that it was a difficult time for artists, is an important one.발음듣기

It's now the general public that is the audience and the patron for artists and that put artists in a really precarious position.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Well, this is interesting.발음듣기

Because in the history of art, the patrons had been the church and then the aristocracy but here now, in our new industrial society, art is one more commodity.발음듣기

And there was an interest in what that meant for somebody who was a creative genius.발음듣기

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