Victorian Era Art

1. Victorian Era Art

2. Hello! My name is Violet! Pleasure to meet all of you! Ready to go? Come and follow me! Time Travel Right now it is the year 2014 and I am playing in the park. I found a way to go back into the Victorian Era! You cannot share this secret with anybody, though!

3. While time traveling… What was the Victorian Era? It was a time for great classic novels, many inventions, and many marvelous musicians. It was a time for love, the reign of Queen Victoria, and more. This was the Victorian Era. It lasted from June 20, 1837 and ended on January 22, 1901. Also the Victorian Era was a time for fashion. Men wore waistcoats, aside with hats and walking sticks. For the women, they wore long dresses, corsets, and stockings reaching right before the knee. Huckleberry Finn was written, and Thomas Edison’s inventions were born, but one of the greatest things happening in this era was art. Artists were known for their paintings usually based on landscapes or women. The Victorian Era was known for love and passion, and three amazing artists, Claude Monet, William Holman Hunt, and Sir John Everett Millais truly expressed their passion for art though their works.

4. Here we are! These are what houses looked like back then! Let’s go in!

5. Look at all of these artworks! I especially like the ones over there in the corner!

6. More Paintings

8. Claude Monet Born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France, Claude Monet was one of the best known artists in the Victorian Era. His work consisted of landscapes, portraits, and women such as his two wives. Monet joined the Paris studio of the academic history painter Charles Gleyre when he was 22. In the 1860s, he appreciated the success in these early years of his art being accepted for exhibition at the annual Salons, a professional art society in Europe. Although, because of the many rejections of his other works such as Women in the Garden, it inspired him to work with Edgar Degas, EdouardManet, and others authorizing an independent exhibition in 1874. Impression: Sunrise was one of Monet’s contributions to the exhibition. Sadly, it drew derision for its unfinished appearance. Yet, the artists thought of this as a badge of honor and decided to call themselves “Impressionists.” Monet died on December 5, 1926. His art will be remembered and is now an inspiration to lots of people.

9. Woman with a Parasol Another great painting by Claude Monet is the famous, Woman with a Parasol. The woman in the painting is Monet’s wife, Camille. He intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual woman. Water Lilies This is one of Claude Monet’s very famous paintings. Monet was inspired to paint this exquisite piece of art because in 1883, he bought a house in Giverny and made a garden so he could practice garden painting for the rest of his life. Back

10. William Holman Hunt Another great artist, William Holman Hunt paintedduring the Victorian Era. He was born on April 2, 1827 and died on September 7, 1910. Hunt was a very serious person and lacked humor. He was also the founder of the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1844, Hunt went to Royal Academy Schools to receive education and met two other artists, Millais and Rossetti whom he brought together. Throughout his life, he was a devout Christian and intended to paint religious pictures. One of Hunt’s famous pictures, “The Light of the World,” was the greatest Christian images in the 19th century. Furthermore, Hunt was also a great portrait painter. Hunt was awarded the Order of Merit by King Edward VII in 1905.

11. The Awakening Conscience This painting is one of Hunt’s most famous oil painting. Hunt was inspired to paint this when he read this proverb, “As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.” The woman in the painting is rising from her lover’s lap and gazes onto the sunlit garden with a mirror reflected behind her. The mirror indicates the woman’s lost innocence. The Light of the World When Hunt heard this, “Behold,I stand at the door and knock; if you hear my voice and open, I will come, and we will sit side by side, and share a meal together. ” it inspired him to paint this. Jesus is the center of this painting. It shows that he will not get mad and beat the door down, nor pass through the locked door as he did after his resurrection. Back

12. Sir John Everett Millais Lastly, Sir John Everett Millais was a artist in the Victorian Era. He was born on June 8, 1829 and died on August 13, 1896. In 1840, he was admitted into the Royal Academy Schools and met William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. They all formed the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. Millais was the youngest student ever to attend the Royal Academy Schools and won a gold medal for his painting, The Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughters of Shiloh. Then he painted Christ in the House of his Parents which was his entry for the exhibit in the Royal Academy Schools. Millais had a natural talent and was a wonderful Victorian Era Artist.

13. Ophelia Ophelia is a character in the Hamlet written by Shakespeare. She gets mad when her father is murdered by her lover, Hamlet. She died filled with grief when drowning into a river while picking flowers. Buttercups, a type of flower is shown in the picture. It symbolizes ingratitude or childishness. Christ in the House of His Parents In this picture, it shows the childhood of Christ. On the wall is a carpenter’s triangle above Christ’s head which symbolizes The Holy Trinity. The wood and nails symbolize the crucifixion as does the blood on his hand that drips onto his foot. Clearly, this indentifies him as the Baptist.

14. Time Travel That was sure one journey! All of the artists and their works were amazing! I hope you enjoyed and learned a lot from this adventure. Now it’s time to go home!