#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
refers to the distinctive styles of painting in UK during the reign of Queen Victoria, 1837–1901Flaming June, Frederic Lord Leighton pic.twitter.com/O9Mw02f9GR
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
In early years of Victoria’s reign, painting dominated by Royal Academy of Arts & its founder, Joshua ReynoldsThe Age of Innocence, Sir Joshua Reynolds pic.twitter.com/rUdr4s9C8Y
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Reynolds and Academy influenced by Italian Renaissance painter Raphael: believed role of artist was to make subjects as noble & ideal as possibleSelf-Portraits, Sir Joshua Reynolds pic.twitter.com/x06ez8E0eC
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Industrial Age progress & rise of wealthy middle class changed audience perception of art’s purposeThe Signal, William Powell Frith pic.twitter.com/5D4w7iziJi
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
newly wealthy middle class art market felt art should be as realistic as possibleNocturne in Black and Gold, Whistler (American born but lived in Britain) pic.twitter.com/6CKtQPUiTZ
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
main subjects of paintings previously commission by nobility were portraits of themselves, military topics, historical scenesAurora Triumphans, Evelyn de Morgan pic.twitter.com/G7DyJmsDMP
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Academy art seen as stale and outdated by new art patrons who had grown up in Industrial AgeThe Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke, by Dadd pic.twitter.com/k9j5yPa8NW
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (L-R), openly rebelled against Academy teaching, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Raphael’s idealized paintings pic.twitter.com/DlrDKkKajY— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Awakening Conscience, William Holman Hunt
Ophelia, John Everett Millais
Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti pic.twitter.com/9O1HAZs79q— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
PRB founders joined by 4 other painters, making 7 in original group, which now included writers, critics, and poets as well as paintersLove’s Messenger, Marie Spartali Stillman (PRB) pic.twitter.com/czC2g731fA
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
The Last of England, Ford Madox Brown (PRB) pic.twitter.com/JUT3yDf61S
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Sidonia von Bork, by Edward Burne-Jones pic.twitter.com/aG8krlMVhV
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
William Morris illustration for manuscript by Burne-Jones pic.twitter.com/PhBd1XuoL5
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner pic.twitter.com/G6FJAfrFP5
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Pegwell Bay, Kent, A Recollection, by William Dyce pic.twitter.com/itFI1jBXb4
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
The Roses of Heliogabalus, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema pic.twitter.com/PBob2T48PC
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, Edward Burne-Jones pic.twitter.com/LGGMwjQ12p
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Rather than idealizing subjects, V painters began to believe in importance and accuracy of detailsA Private Viewing at the Royal Academy, William Powell Frith pic.twitter.com/oKtKwVHqIH
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Canaries, Albert Joseph Moore pic.twitter.com/j1j1DQIpUc
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Unconscious Rivals, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema pic.twitter.com/qAsLkMCPUW
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Ophelia (version 2), Arthur Hughes pic.twitter.com/uY7DI1zF1i
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Industrial Age, increasing mechanization, pollution, 1870 Franco-Prussian War, & French Impressionists led artists away from intense realism in paintingEvening After Rain, Worcestershire, by Benjamin Williams Leader pic.twitter.com/lcCHm6IYDQ
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Charles Dickens, by Daniel Maclise pic.twitter.com/HcqFdWMoEZ
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Duet, Lucy Madox Brown pic.twitter.com/Jk4lwQMrvT
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Beguiling of Merlin, Edward Burne-Jones pic.twitter.com/fNEOsBPV23
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Queen Esther in Harem, Edwin Long pic.twitter.com/DDPtAS7HbE
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Aesthetic Movement painters felt that middle class buying public was “uneducated” in art taste, which was leading to decline in quality of artA Hopeless Dawn, Frank Bramley pic.twitter.com/ElXwgNl70P
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Aesthetic Movement painters wanted to ignore ugliness or reality and return to more noble and beautiful subjectsSpring, William McTaggart pic.twitter.com/zrbuh9lYtb
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
La Belle Iseult (sometimes mistakenly labeled Queen Guinevere), William Morris pic.twitter.com/iXW3oLdJOy
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Trust, Charles Burton Barber pic.twitter.com/7P17Kt834r
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
The Vagrants, Frederick Walker pic.twitter.com/kj9tkGK2Qk
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Master Baby, by Sir William Quiller Orchardson pic.twitter.com/TNm0z5VuvC
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Hearts Are Trumps, Sir John Everett Millais pic.twitter.com/2jN01pSXut
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, by Simeon Solomon pic.twitter.com/DWHE8LHT02
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Poor Relations, George Goodwin Kilburne pic.twitter.com/UQJiiTr5Gs
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Monarch of the Glen, Edward Landseer pic.twitter.com/9d1XNaV6tK
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
When Victorian Age ended, many “modern” painters turned against values of Victorian paintersReflections on the Thames, Westminster, by John Atkinson Grimshaw pic.twitter.com/vjoHGfUT2w
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018
#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
European traditions in painting that had been ignored or openly mocked by Victorian painters came into fashion among artists and buyersOn the Thames, James Tissot pic.twitter.com/aE93fDUa0M
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
His Master’s Voice, by Francis Barraud, rejected by Academy but purchased by Gramophone Co and became its trademark pic.twitter.com/L27yKtzbro
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Some Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art came “back into fashion” by 1960s counter-culture artists, which restored reputation of Victorian artists in generalPia de Tolomei, by PRB painter/founder Dante Gabriel Rossetti pic.twitter.com/gvAUjMv1VB
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#ArtSaturday Victorian Painting
Idyll, Sir Frederick Lord Leighton pic.twitter.com/Hx3vAlTatJ
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 27, 2018