Victorian Watercolours
Title | Victorian Watercolours PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Newall |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780714828114 |
The Victorian era gave rise to some of the most beautiful and extraordinary watercolours ever painted. With their meticulous technique and discreet purpose, they convey much about the romantic and moral temperament of the age. Through his discussion of subject matter and stylistic development, Christopher Newall provides a fascinating insight into the artistic sensibility of the period. 'This is an informative and well-illustrated guide to an under-studied but fascinating period in the long history of the British watercolour. Graham Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement, 29 January - 4 February 1988. 'Newall possesses the rare ability of being able to make the reader really visualize an individual painting and the book abounds with deeply felt and brilliantly communicated descriptive passages.' Lionel Lambourne, Apollo, April 1989
Victorian Landscape Watercolors
Title | Victorian Landscape Watercolors PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Wilcox |
Publisher | Hudson Hills |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781555950712 |
English landscape watercolor painting, a perfect marriage of genre and medium, entered a lively period of experimentation in style and content during the second half of the nineteenth century, with rich and diverse results. Through all the changes of style and technique and all the debates over the appropriate use of the medium, it was watercolor's ability to convey the timeless truth and reality of the natural world that mattered to artists, critics, and audiences. British watercolors of the Victorian period continued to observe an essential humility before nature; they remain fresh and compellingly immediate because they derived in the first place from the artists' heartfelt communion with the elements of nature. Victorian Landscape Watercolors begins with a consideration of the continuing influence of the great generation who earlier in the century, during the extraordinary parallel rise of watercolor and landscape painting, had established the landscape watercolor as a major British contribution to the arts. The second chapter examines the role of the landscape watercolor in the aesthetic thought of John Ruskin, whose critical voice played a dominant role in shaping that art. The third chapter looks at the place of landscape within the watercolor societies and its development as it appeared in their annual exhibitions. The final chapter deals with the tug of new and old, foreign and native in the later Victorian period. The book also features 126 watercolors, from public and private collections in America and England, all reproduced in full color and accompanied by individual commentaries. Among the 76 artists represented are David Cox, Sr. and Jr., Walter Crane, William HolmanHunt, Edward Lear, Samuel Palmer, James Mallord William Turner, James McNeill Whistler, and Ruskin himself, along with dozens of lesser-known masters of the medium. Victorian Landscape Watercolors is published in conjunction with the first exhibition to survey this period of this particularly British contribution to the arts; the exhibition, organized by the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, will also be seen at the Cleveland Museum of Art and in Birmingham, England.
The Victorian Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen
Title | The Victorian Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen PDF eBook |
Author | Delia Millar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Drawing |
ISBN |
Victorian Watercolours
Title | Victorian Watercolours PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Newall |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Victorian era gave rise to some of the most beautiful and extraordinary watercolours ever painted. With their meticulous technique and discreet purpose, they convey much about the romantic and moral temperament of the age. This volume is the first general introduction to what was a particularly popular medium in the Victorian era and was, in fact, the preferred form of expression for many artists. Through his discussion of subject matter and stylistic development, Christopher Newall provides a fascinating insight into the artistic sensibility of the period. Featuring full-colour masterworks by such major figures as Ruskin, Burne-Jones and Rossetti, along with many lesser-known but respected talents and analyses of both the individual works and the way in which they contributed to the stylistic development of the medium during the period, this is a valuable addition to the scholarship on Victorian art.
Victorian Watercolours
Title | Victorian Watercolours PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Raissis |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781741741315 |
Catalog of the exhibition Victorian watercolours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales 2 June - 3 December 2017.
Great British Watercolors
Title | Great British Watercolors PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Hargraves |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300116586 |
Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and freshness… their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” This catalogue celebrating the centenary of Mellon's birth features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M.W. Turner.
Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-dreamer
Title | Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-dreamer PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Wildman |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Arts and crafts movement |
ISBN | 0870998587 |
This publication is issued in conjunction with the 1998 exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and scheduled for venues in England and France. Burnes-Jones (1833-1898) created a style that had widespread influence on both British and European art--a narrative style derived from medieval legend and fused with the influence of Italian Renaissance masters, a style that ceded popularity to a growing taste for abstraction at the end of the 19th century. Now Burne-Jones's star has risen again, and this catalogue contains full discussion of his life and work and representation of his prodigious output of drawings and paintings. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR