19th-Century French Postcards Predict The Future
A set of 19th century postcards designed by French artists has revealed what they thought we would be doing in the 21st century. According to Yahoo, these postcards were probably produced between 1899 and 1910, and they predicted the life of Parisians in the year 2000. Check out their predictions below:
Mathew Brady and the Modern Union Hero: Rachael Pullin Reviews National Portrait Gallery Exhibition
Uniform, intimate, and official, the portraits of Civil War generals in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Mathew Brady’s Photographs of Union Generals (March 30, 2012-May 31, 2015), functioned as portable models of masculinity for a republic in the midst of violent self-definition. These twenty palm-sized carte-de-visite style photographs are installed in two orderly rows that flank viewers on [...]
Modernity, Regionalism, and Art Nouveau at the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, 1909
Modernity, Regionalism, and Art Nouveau at the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, 1909 by Peter Clericuzio Upon visiting the city of Nancy in 1909 for the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, the critic Max Durand wrote: This summer, Nancy is a favorite destination for pilgrimage and excursion. One comes to learn, [...]
Revolution, Romanticism and the Long Nineteenth Century
In order to consider the future of Victorian literary studies within the long nineteenth century, we must go back to that earlier ‘period’ of the nineteenth century, and the French Revolution of 1789. During the Napoleonic wars, two British women poets published extensive poems that addressed the impact of the revolutionary crisis on Britain’s future [...]
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877)
The self-proclaimed “proudest and most arrogant man in France,” Gustave Courbet created a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1850–51 when he exhibited a group of paintings set in his native Ornans, a village in the Franche-Comté in eastern France. These works, including The Stonebreakers (1849–50; now lost) and A Burial at Ornans (1849–50; Musèe [...]
Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century. Figures in Middle Eastern dress appear in Renaissance and Baroque works by such artists as Bellini, Veronese, and Rembrandt, and the opulent eroticism of harem scenes appealed to [...]
Claude Monet
Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his long career, Monet consistently depicted the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast. He led the way to twentieth-century modernism by developing a [...]
Aesthetic Movement
Movement of the 1870s and 1880s that manifested itself in the fine and decorative arts and architecture in Britain and subsequently in the USA; it had no discernible influence on continental Europe. Reacting to what was seen as evidence of philistinism in art and design, it was characterized by the cult of the beautiful and [...]
Pre-Raphaelites
Pre-Raphaelites The first thing likely to strike anyone looking at poems and paintings by Pre-Raphaelite artists is that they have little in common. The label “Pre-Raphaelite” leads a reader or viewer to expect some uniformity arising from a common aesthetic philosophy, technique, or goal, but the Pre-Raphaelites rarely provide such uniformity, despite the heroic efforts [...]
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