Art

AI prompt: 

I know almost nothing about art but I'm trying to learn. Would you put the order of movements as such (other movements, when): Classical --> Naturalism --> Impressionism -- >Pre-Raphaelite --> Aesthetic Movement --> Modern

Reply: 

Long before his death in 1900, Ruskin had come to be seen in avant garde circles as a backward-looking proponent of an outmoded narrative style of at. The rise of the Aesthetic Movement -- in which Whistler was the most prominent artistic figure -- can be seen a direct challenge to Ruskin's teachings about the moral and spiritual significance of art, although, ironically. it owed much to Ruskin's inspiration. Intellectuals of the Bloomsbury generation, in thrall to Roger Fry and his doctrine of "significant form," regarded Ruskin as a figure of fun. to judge frm the sales of his books, Ruskin's popularity with the wider public actually increased towards the end of his life, but it seems to have gone in to a steep decline around the time of the First World War, as part of the obscure process by which all things Victoria gradually became deeply unfashionable.

Classical -- Naturalism/Realism -- Pre-Raphaelite -- Impressionism --  Aesthetic Movement -- Modern
 

1840:

Turner: Romantic painter, 1775 - 1851, 65 years old (1840), died at age 76;
Ruskin: 1819 - 1900, 21 years old (1840); Modern Painters, 1843 - 1860; died at age 81;
Holman Hunt: 1827 -- 1910; Pre-Raphaelite; 13 years old (1840); 
Whistler: 1834 - 1903; six years old (1840); Aesthetic Movement;
Claude Monet: 1840 - 1926; born in 1840; younger, but a contemporary of Whistler;
Virginia Woolf: 1882 - 1941; in 1928, she can only read Ruskin; read about Turner;