describe a few critical responses he gets for his works?
Some portray him in a satirical manner while another emphasised on his spiritual and stylistic importance.
George Frederic Watts
satirical manner
who is the artist of "after the deluge" painting? George Frederic Watts mention a few of his works? Hope and Love and Life is "physical energy" a painting? No, it was a plaster model. what is it about? It was a bronze cast sculpture of a horse and rider. did he portray something significant in it? Yes, an allegory of human vitality and humanity's ceaseless struggle for betterment. did he make or design a memorial? Yes, he was prosed to create a memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice to commemorate ordinary people who had died saving the lives of others, and who might otherwise have been forgotten.
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George Frederic Watts [SEP] Reception
Several reverent biographies of Watts were written shortly after his death. With the emergence of Modernism, however, his reputation declined. Virginia Woolf's comic play "Freshwater" portrays him in a satirical manner, an approach also adopted by Wilfred Blunt, former curator of the Watts Gallery, in his irreverent 1975 biography "England's Michelangelo". In his 1988 book on Ruskin, the art critic Peter Fuller emphasised Watts's spiritual and stylistic importance, also noting that late post-symbolist works such as "The Sower of the Systems" "stretched beyond the brink of abstraction". On the centenary of his death Veronica Franklin Gould published "G.F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian", a positive study of his life and work.