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    During the Victorian Age, painting developed greatly and showed important aspects of culture and society as well as problems exacerbated by industrialization. Early Victorian art was heavily influenced by realism and accurate depictions of nature, replacing previous idealism. Due to Britain's commercial expansion, ships and shipwrecks were popular subjects as symbols of widespread trade and divine punishment. Later Victorian art moved from realism towards fanciful fairy paintings as a form of escapism, with great attention to magical details. Orientalism also influenced Victorian art and customs after Britain conquered India, with painters focusing on sensual eastern settings like harems to represent moral inferiority of colonists.

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    During the Victorian Age, painting developed greatly and showed important aspects of culture and society as well as problems exacerbated by industrialization. Early Victorian art was heavily influenced by realism and accurate depictions of nature, replacing previous idealism. Due to Britain's commercial expansion, ships and shipwrecks were popular subjects as symbols of widespread trade and divine punishment. Later Victorian art moved from realism towards fanciful fairy paintings as a form of escapism, with great attention to magical details. Orientalism also influenced Victorian art and customs after Britain conquered India, with painters focusing on sensual eastern settings like harems to represent moral inferiority of colonists.

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    During the Victorian Age, painting developed greatly and showed important aspects of culture and society as well as problems exacerbated by industrialization. Early Victorian art was heavily influenced by realism and accurate depictions of nature, replacing previous idealism. Due to Britain's commercial expansion, ships and shipwrecks were popular subjects as symbols of widespread trade and divine punishment. Later Victorian art moved from realism towards fanciful fairy paintings as a form of escapism, with great attention to magical details. Orientalism also influenced Victorian art and customs after Britain conquered India, with painters focusing on sensual eastern settings like harems to represent moral inferiority of colonists.

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    Victorian Painting

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    During the Victorian Age, painting developed greatly and showed important aspects of culture and society as well as problems exacerbated by industrialization. Early Victorian art was heavily influenced by realism and accurate depictions of nature, replacing previous idealism. Due to Britain's commercial expansion, ships and shipwrecks were popular subjects as symbols of widespread trade and divine punishment. Later Victorian art moved from realism towards fanciful fairy paintings as a form of escapism, with great attention to magical details. Orientalism also influenced Victorian art and customs after Britain conquered India, with painters focusing on sensual eastern settings like harems to represent moral inferiority of colonists.

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    Some of the key aspects of Victorian painting discussed are the influence of realism, popular maritime subjects like ships and shipwrecks, and the emergence of fairy paintings as a genre.

    Two of the most popular subjects in nineteenth-century British painting were ships, representing the widespread trade, and shipwrecks, seen as metaphors for divine punishment or spiritual lessons.

    A genre of painting that began to abandon realism and focus more on magical atmospheres and details was 'fairy painting'.

    Victorian Painting

    During the Victorian Age the painting had a great development,showing the most important characters
    of the culture and the society of this period, but also the problems and the contradictions, increased by the
    growing industrialism.
    Early Victorian art was heavely influenced by realism and faithfulness to the true aspects of
    nature. The Idealism of the previous age was substituted by a new detailed and almost
    fotografic natural representation.
    Becouse of the great commercial expansion of Britain, one of the most popular subject in
    nineteenth-century painting was the ship, as the symbol of a trade very widespread, and
    the shipwreck. This last one was considered as a metaphor for a divine punishment, a trial
    or means of spiritual education.

    Theodore Weber
    “Dover Pilot and Fishing
    Boats”
    1865,oil on canvas.
    A genre of painting that is closely associated with the late Victorian art is the so called
    “fairy painting”, that began to abandon the realistic aspects of early works and moved to
    concentrate on the representation of fairies and enchanted worlds with a great attention to
    the magical atmospheres and details. “Fairy paintings” was also seen as a form of
    escapism for Victorians.

    John Atkinson Grimshaw


    “Endimione sul monte Latmus”
    Edward Hughes
    1879, oil on canvas
    “Midsummer Eve”
    1898, oil on canvas
    Orientalism in Victorian art
    The charming for the Eastern had a great influence on Victorian customs, especially after
    the conquest of India as colony of the Empire.

    “The Reception” John Frederick Lewis “Babylonian Marriage” Edwin Long


    1889,oil on canvas
    1839,oil on canvas
    Victorian painters focused their attention on settings such as
    the“harem”,representing eastern scenes full of sensuality.
    Infact,the sensuality that was absent in the puritan Britain was transferred to the
    eastern world and to far lands; but it was justified as the representation of the
    moral inferiority of the colonists.

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