Hornel in Japan

In an exciting and invigorating year for Glasgow’s art scene, Jackie heads to Pollok House to find out more about one of the city’s most prominent artists of the late 19th century. Edward Atkinson Hornel was a Glasgow Boy – a group of radical young painters who transformed the city’s art and planted the seed of modernism. Inspired by the work of Dutch and French realism, the Boys found both commercial and critical success with landscapes and portraits that displayed everyday life. 

A new exhibition at Pollok House tells the story of Hornel’s two visits to Japan and the work he created there.

How did these visits shape his point of view? What do they tell us of western views of Asian nations at the time? And what fuelled Glasgow’s close artistic links to Japan? Take a listen… 

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