Hope (painting)

Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts, who completed the first two versions in 1886. It shows a lone blindfolded female figure sitting on a globe, playing a lyre that has only a single string remaining. Watts intentionally used symbolism not traditionally associated with hope to make the painting’s meaning ambiguous. The painting is now on display at the South Kensington Museum of Art in London, and at the Tate Gallery in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of art.

About Hope (painting) in brief

Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts, who completed the first two versions in 1886. It shows a lone blindfolded female figure sitting on a globe, playing a lyre that has only a single string remaining. Watts intentionally used symbolism not traditionally associated with hope to make the painting’s meaning ambiguous. Hope proved popular with the Aesthetic Movement, who considered beauty the primary purpose of art and were unconcerned by the ambiguity of its message. Martin Luther King Jr. based a 1959 sermon, now known as Shattered Dreams, on the theme of the painting, as did Jeremiah Wright in Chicago in 1990. Barack Obama used the theme as the theme for his 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address, and as the title of his 2006 book, ‘The Audacity of Hope’ The painting is now on display at the South Kensington Museum of Art in London, and at the Tate Gallery in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of art, where it is part of a permanent collection of Watts’ works. The original is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and is on show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, until the end of the 20th century. For more information on the Museum’s collection of works by Watts, visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/museum-of-art/watts-works/hope-and-the-artistic-discovery/ Hope-and the artistic discovery of George Frederic Watts by-George Frederic  Watts, is published by Thames & Hudson, priced £20-£30.

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