Exhibition: The Beautiful: Art for Art's Sake: The Aesthetic Movement from 1860-1900

Bruce James Talbert, Design for 'The Sunflower' Wallpaper, 1878
V&A, London

We visited an exhibition on the aesthetic movement from 1860-1900 in Mitsubishi Museum, Tokyo.

The style of the late Raphaelite was once my favourite when I was a teen. It was the elaborate and dream-like ambiance that fascinated me. As I have grown more critical, these works of art no longer mesmerise me, but they are still beautiful to look at.

This design for 'The Sunflower' wallpaper is something that has stayed in my mind since the visit. I remember I used to like painting sunflowers, of which the circular arrangement of petals and elongated stems were what I never grew tired of drawing.