5. THE WORLD IN A LEAF
Sep 04, 2020
3 minutes
In the fifth and final volume of his Modern Painters series of books, Victorian artist and art critic John Ruskin famously remarked, “If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world”.
An exponent of using drawing as a means of appreciating the beauty of the natural world, Ruskin believed that in order to paint a landscape correctly one should understand every element of it, down to the tiniest leaf and flower.
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