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The Cult of Beauty at the Legion of Honor

Edward Burne-Jones’s monumental ode to Laus Veneris (1873–1878) sings with rich orange and red tones corresponding to Algernon Charles Swinburne’s heady and sensual poem of the same name. Credit: @FAMSF

Edward Burne-Jones’s monumental ode to Laus Veneris (1873–1878) sings with rich orange and red tones corresponding to Algernon Charles Swinburne’s heady and sensual poem of the same name.
They held the iconoclastic belief in that art’s sole purpose is to be beautiful on its own formal terms.
Whistler's pieces are the stand-out paintings of the exhibit, making it even more abundantly clear that he was far more than the painter of his mother.
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The Cult of Beauty at the Legion of Honor

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