This morning (06-09-19) I rezd this on Spiked online.

It is about Ruskin the famous Victorian who married Effie Gray and who never consummated his marriage. Why? He was put off when he was his wife's public hair! She later married Millais.
Then he fell in love with a little girl of just 14, one of his drawing students - Rose la Touche. When she got to 18, he proposed and she refused him. He then became a rabid Socialist who really cared about the degradation of the working man. There was never any sign of impropriety, by the way. But - hey - that is not enough for either the Victorians or for us!

Read this: it is exactly how I feel about art.

He discovered Turner.

He believed that nature had been created by God for man and that all great art was praise. He spent much of his creative life teaching and encouraging others. He didn’t exhibit his own work – he didn’t think it worthy. It was for others to decide whether to exhibit his work after his death. William Morris said of him, ‘He seemed to point out a new road on which others should travel’.

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Artists are no longer judged on the artistic merits of their work alone but on the supposed politics of their work – whether it is suitably progressive or otherwise. It’s a new kind of Stalinism