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Art from the Victorian Era
by Allie Doherty, Nia Dawson, Brennen Rand,
Charisma Banks and Kesterlyn Wilson
Painters
• Second half of the 19th century is known as the positivist age
• faith in the positive consequences of the natural and human realms
• Vibrant colors were used to represent this positivity in high society
• the return of classic realism with the influences of technological advances
• more scientific viewpoint of aesthetics
• paintings pictured modernity, finery, elegance, as well as the countryside with emotion tendencies
Romanticism
• paintings were individualistic, exotic, and emotional
• most famous romantic school was the Hudson River School in American; specialized in dramatic landscapes
Victorian Classicism
• Historical paintings inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
• highly romantic
• inspired by historical and mythological themes
• emphasized the rigid Academic standards
Orientalism
• religious-like paintings
• decadent and mysterious style
• typically large in size and subjects are in dramatic lighting and poses
• common for subjects to be semi-nude
Impressionism
• spontaneous movement to the restrictions and conventions of Academic Art
• named was derived from Claude Monet's work, Impressionism: Sunrise
• naturalistic style that featured many landscaes
Architecture
• Gothic revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, stick style, shingle style, Octagon style, Richardsonian Romanesque Style, Second Empire Style(Mansard Style) emerged in this era
• Victorian homes resembled dollhouses with decorative trim and bright colors
• Two to three stories• Wood or stone exterior• Complicated,
asymmetrical shape• Decorative trim
Textured wall surfaces• Steep, multi-faceted
roof or Mansard roof
• Towers• Vibrant colors. • Bay windows (they stick
out)• Stained glass in
doorways and windows.• chimneys
Italianate
• nearly flat roofs
• wide eaves
• massive brackets
• resembled the romantic villas of Renaissance Italy
Gothic revival
• Medieval architecture and the Gothic age inspired the Victorian era
• Victorian Gothic Revival homes are grand stone buildings like miniature castles.
Queen Anne
• nothing to do with British royalty, and Queen Anne houses
• expresses the inventiveness of industrial-age builders
• elaborate and eccentric
• this style is often called romantic and feminine
Richardsonian Romanesque Style
• Called Romanesque because of the styles use of round, wide arches like similar to the ones made in Ancient Rome
• Suitable for grand public buildings
• created by Henry Hobson Richardson
Music/Composers
• music spanned across all social classes
• amature markets made a business from selling songs and pianos
• huge growth of amateur music-making and greater social access to music
• improvements in training of musicians
• Program notes were used by opera and concert attendees- long before their use in Europe or the US
• women gradually were allowed to participate in the musical world
• 1881 to the mid-1890's: The Girl's Own Paper magazine ran regular features on the latest in "new music"
• Limited methods of reproducing music in home; typically used musical boxes
W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert was a poet, dramatist and illustrator and Arthur Sullivan was an English composer.
They worked on 14 different operas together from 1871 to 1896.
The oratorio The Dream of Gerontius by Edgar Elgar, based on the poem by Cardinal John Newman, speaks
on the relationship between religion and Victorian music.
• Thespis (1871) • Trial by Jury (1875) • Sorcerer (1877)
• H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) • Pirates of Penzance
(1880) • Patience (1881) • Iolanthe (1882)
• Princess Ida (1884) • Mikado (1885) • Ruddigore (1887) • Yeomen of the Guard
(1888) • Gondoliers (1889)
• Utopia Limited (1893) • Grand Duke (1896)
Victorian Fashion
Fashion never evolved so quickly as it did during this time period. It had its ups and downs, literally, and overall, the clothes for both men and women changed drastically within the sixty four years of this era.
1830-1840
1840-1850
1850-1860
1860-1870
1870-1880
1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1901
Literature
• Victorian Literature is literature that was produced during the era of Queen Victoria
• Attempted to combine Romantic emphasis on self, emotion, and imagination
Novels• 19th century saw the novel
become the leading form of literature in English.
• Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives
Authors:Charles DickensBrontë family; Anne, Charlotte, EmilyGeorge Eliot
Mood/Themes: violence passionromancedeath
darker themes, etc.
Poetry
• Poetry came to be in the Victorian Era
• Used as a voice of criticism• Tender and passionate poems• Heroic stories of knights;
medieval
Poets: Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert BrowningMatthew ArnoldGerald Manley Hopkins Alfred Tennyson
Drama
Operas
Musical Burlesques
Shakespeare productions
Serious Drama
Musical Theater
Playwrights:ShakespeareJames Planché Thomas William RobertsonH. J. ByronOscar Wilde