![]() ![]() He was especially fond of writing to the children of the household and entertained them with delightful and humorous pictures (MacCarthy, 328). ![]() Art, according to Aestheticists like Burne-Jones, should not be used for didactic or moralizing purposes rather, it should be considered an object of beauty whose sole purpose was to elicit a sensual and emotional response from the viewer (Landow).īurne-Jones filled personal correspondence to family and friends with sketches and caricatures. After the 1860s, his work and artistic ideology was associated with the Aesthetic Movement. Long before Hiccup befriended and subdued the dragon, Toothless, in Cressida Cowell’s book How to Train Your Dragon (2003), the nineteenth-century English artist, Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), imagined a world where baby dragons went to school to learn everything dragons need to know to become fearsome creatures.īurne-Jones was a Pre-Raphaelite artist known for his illustrations for William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, and decorative designs and paintings depicting Medieval subject matter. “Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.” John Dewey Edward Burne-Jones, “Seminary for More Advanced Dragon Babies” (detail). ![]()
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