Musical stories in fantastical worlds
The Spanish painter Fransisco de Goya lived from 1746-1828 and painted dark subject material unlike anyone else until well into the 20th century. The interesting thing is that he was a court painter.In the 1770s he became noticed through his […]
We all know i’m writing a Dieselpunk Opera so there’s no point being coy about it. We all know i won’t actually begin making music for some time (months) but in my spare time i work out the stories (although […]
As we here at The Steampunk Opera blog are interested in all aspects of the past imagining the future, the time has come to turn our wayward attention to the early 20th century art movement that named itself after the […]
Among the lush and gorgeous Victorian art movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were artists who not only painted narrative paintings, that is paintings that tell a complex situation in their details, but more so and more novelly, did so […]
And by twilight paintings is do NOT mean paintings of ******* Edward whatshisname the douchey, twinkly vampire. I would shoot myself in the ***** first. No, only slightly less douchey, today we feature paintings of twilight. Now i know what […]
As long as we’re on the subject of slightly unhinged creative types, i present to you now a famous Victorian painter known for his faerie and other supernatural themed paintings: Richard Dadd. Richard Dadd was born in 1817 and recognized […]
So we’re going have one more paintings/art movement day. From 1885 to 1910, while the Aesthetics and the Decadents were bursting with life, Symbolism was also in full swing. In fact, there isn’t much of a line between these genres. […]
Following what occured after the PreRaphaelites leads us to Aestheticism, which i have already covered. So let us delve into a subsection of the aesthetic movement, the Decadents. Like Aestheticism’s battle cry: ‘Art for art’s sake!’ the Decadents, as an […]
Sir Joshua Reynolds was the first President of Britain’s Royal Arts Academy in the mid 1700s. He trumpeted a style known as Grand Style or History Painting, in which he contended that painters should perceive their subjects through generalization and idealization, […]