The Bloomsbury Group is still incredibly relevant today. Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, is constantly talking about the need to use Keynesian economics in order to fight back against the recession and John Maynard Keynes is just one of many brilliant people who emerged from the Bloomsbury Group.
Others include famous authors like Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster and it continues to have enormous influence today with arguably our most successful modern playwright – Alan Bennett – having been hugely influenced by the Bloomsbury Group.
Thus, it is impossible not to recommend a new exhibition charting the works and influence of the Bloomsbury Group which will be running at the Museum of Art and Industry – sometimes referred to as ‘La Piscine’ – in Lille from the 21st November 2009 until the 21st February 2010.
As well as being incredibly influential during their own lifetimes, the Bloomsbury Group continues to influence many artsy types and thus, an exhibition depicting the reasons behind this shouldn’t be missed.
Indeed, whilst it may appear ironic to host an exhibition about a British Group in a French art gallery, it is worth remembering that the Bloomsbury Group played a major part in promoting post-impressionist modern French art to a British audience. The Bloomsbury Group was truly avant-garde, and thus, the exhibition about it in Lille, really is a terrific attraction.
Photo Roubaix – La Piscine by Panoramas
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