In the twentieth century, Victorian art fell out of favor with critics and art lovers. Artists and works of art that were famous then are unfamiliar today despite the occasional revival of interest. Impressionists like Monet and Renoir trigger instant recognition. The Victorians Millais and Rossetti? A vague stirring, perhaps. Here are some useful links for readers of A SLASH OF EMERALD who want to know more about Victorian art and artists.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is probably the best-known “school” of Victorian art.
Read Jennifer Meagher’s essay “The Pre-Raphaelites” (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website).
For a more in-depth look at the movement, visit the BBC documentary The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Revolutionaries.
For more about artists who make “cameo appearances” in A SLASH OF EMERALD . . .
Frederic Leighton: “The Fascination of Flaming June” by Alison Hokanson.
Laura Herford: The Little Emigrant, the Suter Art Gallery in Nelson, New Zealand. (Herford’s early death only ten years after her admittance as the Royal Academy’s first female student may explain why she is largely forgotten.)
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Click on the video for Bodichon at 7 Firsts by Women Artists
A SLASH OF EMERALD has two scenes set at the 1867 Annual Exhibition, which was and still is Britain’s most important art show. (Today, it’s called the Summer Exhibition.)
Mr. Turner and the Summer Exhibition is a short video about how director Mike Leigh recreated the exhibition in Mr. Turner (2014), his biopic of the artist.
Google Arts and Culture looks at “250 Years of the Summer Exposition.”
The female artists (real and fictional) in A SLASH OF EMERALD struggle for professional recognition. Amy Bluett explores the roadblocks in “Victorian Women and the Fight for Art Training.”
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