Modern Painters is the work that gained for Ruskin the recognition of the English world of letters and creativity xin. An only child, Ruskin was born in Surrey. Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters Modern Painters is the work that gained for Ruskin the recognition of the English world of letters and creativity. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from to His ties to his parents, especially his mot