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Dept. of culture

brits and the east: tate’s orientalism exhibit

June 4, 2008  10:16 am

Orientalism

Though contemporary art from the Middle East is grabbing international attention, the media still tends to portray the area’s culture as limited and restrictive. Kudos, then, to Tate Britain, which is staging “The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting,” a show that reminds us that the region was once the subject of Westerners’ most opulent and sensual fantasies. With 110 paintings and watercolors from collections around the world, the show presents a lush and vibrant vision of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern culture as a prime source for English Romantic reverie from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Major works by Pre-Raphaelites William Holman Hunt, Richard Dadd, Lord Leighton, and John Frederick Lewis create a deliciously dreamy world of languid harem girls, sun-soaked architecture, exotic gourmet delights, and other sights that served up an imaginative, if stereotypical, repast for viewers in dreary England who yearned for sunny, faraway lands.

—Ana Finel Honigman

Photo: John Frederick Lewis, “Hhareem Life, Constantinople,” 1857, © Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museums

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