Leighton House Museum

Today we went to the Leighton House Museum where Frederic, Lord Leighton's lived and it has been open to the public since 1929. Frederic was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. It isn't known if he was gay or straight but the fact that "he did court a circle of younger men around his artistic studio" and that "he certainly enjoyed a close relationship with the poet Henry William Greville" kind of says it all. Do what you do Freddy it's all good, no ones judging. His house was more than just a house and throughout the years he was living he kept trying to add on to it and make it more glamorous. Inside the house was pretty awesome besides the fact that most of the things were just models of what he would of had back in the day. He was very good at using artistic expression in his paintings to really show emotion and to tell a story.

There was one painting he did where it was a woman grabbing at a man and the man was trying so hard to look away. You could feel and see the emotion in both of them and it was only a painting it was extraordinary. There was also one he did called Flaming June and in this one he tried to capture the viewers emotions by working on the details and not telling a story. They were trying to express a feeling in a different language than people were used to. They were trying to express language through paint. Back around that time painters were trying to do paintings that didn't tell a story but the painting reached your soul and brought out a feeling that people would rarely see. I'm not a big painting guy but I could see how someone could be taken back by the painting.

We weren't allowed to take pictures so I tried my hardest to act inconspicuous haha.