Italian Futurism
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 […]
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The Shadow Boxes of Joseph Cornell
I quote the Mighty and All Powerfully Omnipotent Wikipedia: A shadow box is an enclosed glass-front case containing an object or objects presented in a thematic grouping with artistic or personal significance. The grouping of the objects and the depth effect created by their […]
Narrative Painting: The Awakening Conscience
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 […]
Twilight Paintings (and douche)
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 […]
Mad Fairy Painter: Richard Dadd
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 […]
The Paintings of Fairyland
We are not concerned with modern depictions of faery things. Some of it is quite nice and lovely, a few things amazing and most, for my tastes, cheesy and droll. However it was in the Victorian era that fairy painting […]
The Parturient Blessed Morality of Physiological Dimensionality. Yeah, You Heard What I Said. Paul Laffoley
Today we feature one of my favorite artists, Paul Laffoley. His work exists in the genre of Visionary Art. There is nothing else like it and no one else i know of who does what he does. He takes an […]
The Derby Day
Hi everybody. The sessions are complete, the entire show is recorded and over the next 2 weeks i will be mixing, mastering and putting the finishing touches on the project. Since that process isn’t really newsworthy or particularly exciting to […]
Steampunk Alice In Wonderland
Ooooo. Pretty pictures…. And you know what? For no reason: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8&ob=av3e]
Steampunk Zeppelins
Hey, remember when we used to occasionally post on things that are actually…. steampunky? Yeah, good times those were. Ah hell, let’s be steampunky. Awesome steampunky Zeppelins it is: