Painted Dreams exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

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We follow the footsteps of a 1908 Express & Star newspaper reporter to uncover an iconic Wolverhampton art exhibition. Painted Dreams exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

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00:30This painting here is The Storm Spirits which De Morgan painted in 1900 and it's one of

00:46my favourites of her paintings. This is storm women, these are storm women who are angry

00:51and there is something very modern about the depictions, about their faces and the emotion

00:56that they express, about the movement in the painting and then the wonderful thunderbolts.

01:00It looks like one of the kind of thing you buy at a popup store now. There is something

01:05really powerful about these women and this painting. She studied mythology from childhood

01:10and she wrote about it in poetry from the age of nine or ten and her paintings, that

01:16are these, Helen of Troy and Cassandra, represent some of her mythological interests. These

01:23again are storm women, they're standing in a situation that's emblematic of their stories

01:29and they are depicting what happens to storm women in many cases because as we know both

01:36Helen of Troy and Cassandra didn't have a very happy ending.

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