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the coxcombs move on
The late Victorian period for the Royal Academy was really the end , succumbing after a long and chronic respiratory illness. Frith’s The Private View from 1881, showed that the Summer Exhibition could still take a hold on the public, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged benjamin disraeli, Grosvenor Gallery, James McNeil Whistler On the Piano, James McNeill Whistler, John Everett Millais, John Ruskin, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the royal academy, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith, William Powell Frith The Private Room
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w. blake: the quack doctors of painting
The Royal Academy. The real power of the Royal Academy lay in its early days, and the driving force behind its consolidation was not primarily intellectual or social at all. It related to the machinery of distribution and sale. High … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benjamin West, Grosvenor Gallery, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Richard Wilson Royal Academy, The Grand Tour, the royal academy, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth
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conspicuous posturing
The lessons we learn today from Victorian painting are primarily of a documentary order; and the works in question should perhaps not be considered under the heading of painting at all, but rather as adjuncts and auxiliaries of the Victorian … Continue reading
academy of drab
The Royal Academy. The general notion of the artist as wild man was quite out of place in the hey day of the Royal Academy. The notion of art as an enclosed world, obedient to its own laws only, did … Continue reading