Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
The Watts Gift
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-frederic-watts-586" aria-label="More by George Frederic Watts" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Frederic Watts</a>
Love and Life
Presented by the artist 1897
actions: expressive
adults
angel
birth to death
emotional states and conditions
female
landscape
life - woman
love - angel
male
man
nudes
people
plants and flowers
religion and belief
rocky
supporting
symbols and personifications
universal religious imagery
violet
woman
<p>Of all the ‘symbolical’ paintings Watts donated to Tate, he said that ‘probably <span>Love and Life</span> best portrays [my] message to the age.’ Love is represented by the woman on the left, and Life by the winged figure. He described the painting as ‘frail and feeble human existence aided to ascend ... by Love with its wide wings of sympathy, charity, tenderness and human affection’. Watts further explained that the two figures are ‘unclothed for they are only symbols’. In 1893, Watts gave versions of the painting to the national collections in France and the United States.</p><p><em>Gallery label, June 2021</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
26 May 2021 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
26 May 2021 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
2021-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2021-05-26
Watts’s Symbolical Paintings
Collection based display
Love and Life
support: 2222 × 1219 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999783" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">the artist</a> 1897
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<p>Of all the ‘symbolical’ paintings Watts donated to Tate, he said that ‘probably <i>Love and Life</i> best portrays [my] message to the age.’ Love is represented by the woman on the left, and Life by the winged figure. He described the painting as ‘frail and feeble human existence aided to ascend ... by Love with its wide wings of sympathy, charity, tenderness and human affection’. Watts further explained that the two figures are ‘unclothed for they are only symbols’. In 1893, Watts gave versions of the painting to the national collections in France and the United States.  </p>
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actions: expressive adults angel birth to death emotional states and conditions female landscape life - woman love - angel male man nudes people plants and flowers religion and belief rocky supporting symbols and personifications universal religious imagery violet woman