The
Good and Simple Life: artists’ colonies in Europe and Britain
Lecturer: Sandra Pollard
Artists’ colonies are very much a feature of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, helped by the spread of the railways and fired by a
desire to get away from the new cities to what was perceived as the
pimple purer life, which also had the advantage of being cheap.
Thus, from Staithes to Skagen, from St Ives to Worpswede, groups of men
and women flocked to fishing villages and rural hamlets, in order to
paint, out of doors for the first time, what was really a vanishing
world. Some groups were precursors of important modern movements,
as was the
