Boris Vasilyevich Anrep (Russian: Борис Васильевич Анреп; 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1883 – 7 June 1969) was a Russian artist, active in Britain, who devoted himself to the art of mosaic.
National Gallery mosaics (1928–1952)
Anrep created four colourful mosaics, which decorate the imposing staircase built by Sir John Taylor in 1887 for the entrance hall of the National Gallery. The mosaics were paid for by private patrons, mainly the industrialist Samuel Courtauld and Anrep's friend Maud Russell, wife of the banker Gilbert Russell. Anrep described the subjects as a philosophical cycle.
The Labours of Life in the west vestibule (1928) illustrates Man's constructive and creative nature. It includes working with electric drill (Engineering), filming a zebra (Exploring), washing a pig (Farming) and studying the diplodocus in the Natural History Museum (Science). Other pictures are Sacred Love (a family), Art, Astronomy, Letters, Mining, Commerce (a Covent Garden porter), Music (a shell and a flute), and Theatre (a contortionist).
The Pleasures of Life in the east vestibule (1929) shows Man's recreations. The subjects are Contemplation, Conversation, Football, Hunting, Cricket. Girls are depicted riding a motorcycle (Speed), wriggling in a hammock (Rest), jiving charleston (Dance), swimming (Sea-Horse). Christmas Pudding and Mud Pie are childish, while Profane Love shows a man with two girls.
The Awakening of the Muses on the half-way landing (1933) links the themes of the first two mosaics. At the crowing of the cock Bacchus, patron of pleasures, and Apollo, who inspires the labours, awaken the Muses. Here the figures are portraits of the artist's contemporaries. Apollo is Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bacchus is Clive Bell. Polyhymnia is represented as Diana Mitford, Clio as Virginia Woolf. Melpomene is Greta Garbo, and Terpsichore is prima ballerina Lydia Lopokova, Lady Keynes. Euterpe as Lady Christabel Aberconway. Urania as Maria Volkova. Calliope as Anna Akhmatova. Erato as Mary Hutchinson. Thalia as Lady Lesley Jowitt.
Modern Virtues in the north vestibule (1952) is a record of the intellectual life of the 1930s and 1940s. Compromise is presented by the American actress Loretta Young, wearing a Phrygian cap as well as a crown; Curiosity is Lord Rutherford with a splitting atom; Sir Winston Churchill defies a beast in a shape of swastika (Defiance). The ballerina Margot Fonteyn listens to the writer and musician Hon. Edward Sackville-West playing the harpsichord (Delectation); Lady Diana Cooper as Britannia crowns Punch (Humour); the poet T. S. Eliot features in Leisure, Bertrand Russell illustrates Lucidity. The astronomer Fred Hoyle, Augustus John and the poet Edith Sitwell and are portrayed respectively in Pursuit, Wonder and Sixth Sense (named after the poem by Gumilyov). Compassion is a portrait of Akhmatova surrounded by the horrors of war.[8] She is looking towards another panel which depicts Anrep's gravestone, linking together his art and her poetry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Anrep
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葛麗泰·嘉寶化身墨爾波墨涅：這位著名影星被描繪成墨爾波墨涅，悲劇女神。
維吉尼亞·伍爾夫化身克利俄：作家維吉尼亞·伍爾夫化身克利俄，歷史女神，手持鋼筆。
邱吉爾化身反抗：政治家溫斯頓邱吉爾被描繪成反抗。
瑪格特芳婷化身愉悅：舞者瑪格特芳婷被描繪成愉悅。
伯特蘭·羅素化身明晰：哲學家伯特蘭·羅素化身。
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- Virginia Woolf as Clio: The writer Virginia Woolf appears as Clio, the Muse of History, holding a pen.
- Winston Churchill as Defiance: The statesman Winston Churchill is represented as Defiance.
- Margot Fonteyn as Delectation: The dancer Margot Fonteyn is shown as Delectation.
- Bertrand Russell as Lucidity: The philosopher Bertrand Russell embodies Lucidity.
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