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In the Spotlight for March - WEATHER
    by John Ruskin

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Here Ruskin's concise thoughts about weather ask us to consider all the elements with equal pleasure, emphasising that they each offer a remarkable experience to be embraced and enjoyed for what it is. I have arranged the text in a circle to represent the cyclic nature of weather using the gentle Johnson Foundation script. This frames the four main weather forms which are illustrated using simplistic graphics and annotated with stylised sharpened italic titles to accentuate the text.

John Ruskin was the greatest British art critic and social commentator of the Victorian Age. Himself an artist, poet, social revolutionary and conservationist, his work shaped the thinking of Ghandhi, Tolstoy, Proust and countless others. Soon after graduating, Ruskin met J. M. W. Turner and decided that he would rescue this great painter from obscurity. His ideas inspired the Arts and Crafts Movement and the founding of the National Trust, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the Labour Movement. He fiercely attacked the worst aspects of industrialisation and actively promoted art education and museum access for the working classes. His prophetic statements on environmental issues which still speak to our generation. He has left us a great legacy.

 

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