music and tales
I know some of you will be familiar with this, but for those who are not here’s a great story for you: Once upon a time there was woman named Sarah Winchester. Winichester was her married name, for in 1862 she […]
Totally true story. 1817. Almondsbury in +. On the evening of Thursday, April 3rd a bizarre young woman with black hair, black eyes and a black turban showed up at the house of a cobbler. The woman spoke an indecipherable language, […]
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, […]
During the peak of the Victorian Era Music Hall, the turn of the century that is, one of the most famous and sought after performers was the inimitable Marie Lloyd. She wasn’t just famous as a singer, she had a […]