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Victorian art
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For a long time, Victorian art was an unloved child of art history. With the death of William Turner, in the 20th century, it was a wide-spread opinion that British art had disappeared in meaninglessness and that it had - even in its best times - only delivered second-class imitations of French Avant-garde. Only in the 1970s, a revaluation of Victorian art took place, originating from the art of the Pre-Raphaelites whose revolutionary and at the same time sentimentally nostalgic gestus began to fascinate anew as well historians of art as also the wide public. Instead of rating the artists of the 19th century for their roles as forerunners of the French dominated Modern Times, it is also possible to understand them considering the epoch they were living in, embedded in the historical and cultural context. And if we do not assume the development up to the abstraction, as it seems to be signalized already in Turner's later works, to be the perfect solution to an art-historical evolution, the Victorian art, with its most interesting aspects, does no longer appear to be a regress. Instead it gets in line with Symbolism of the turn of the century and different streams of figurative painting of the 20th century.
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Victorian art
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Oil Paintings