{"id":3140,"date":"2012-05-23T19:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2012-05-23T19:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:01:50","slug":"the-paintings-of-fairyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/the-paintings-of-fairyland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paintings of Fairyland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mochalab.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-dolls-of-new-albion-a-steampunk-opera\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3133\" title=\"SO Blurb 31\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/so-blurb-31.jpg?resize=611%2C41\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>However it was in the Victorian era that fairy painting really got started and even taken seriously as groupd like the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Symbolists embraced it as worthy subject material.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Richard Dadd: The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/95\/Image-Dadd_-_Fairy_Feller%27s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"706\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Dadd: The Fairy Feller&#8217;s Master Stroke, 1864<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"John Anster Fitzgerald: The Captive Robin, 1864\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3a\/The_captive_robin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Anster Fitzgerald: The Captive Robin, 1864<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Joseph Noel Paton: Study for The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania, 1849\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/63\/Study_for_The_Quarrel_of_Oberon_and_Titania.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"376\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Noel Paton: Study for The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania, 1849<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 583px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"John Everett Millais: Ferdinand Lured by Ariel, 1850\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/51\/Millais_ferdy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"767\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Everett Millais: Ferdinand Lured by Ariel, 1850<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Edwin Landseer: Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Bottom, 1851\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2399\/2268880596_f03736a44f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwin Landseer: Scene from A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, Titania and Bottom, 1851<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Walter Jenks Morgan: A Fairy Ring, 1880\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mushroomthejournal.com\/bestof\/images\/MorganFP.jpg?resize=600%2C394\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Jenks Morgan: A Fairy Ring, 1880<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"The Fairy Raid Carrying off a Changeling - Midsummer Eve, 1867, Sir Joseph Noel Paton, 1867\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i240.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff286\/Fairy_Columbine\/TheFairyRaid-1.jpg?resize=597%2C376\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"376\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fairy Raid Carrying off a Changeling &#8211; Midsummer Eve, 1867, Sir Joseph Noel Paton, 1867<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Richard Doyle: The Enchanted Fairy Tree, 1870\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/31\/The_enchanted_fairy_tree_by_richard_doyle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"793\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Doyle: The Enchanted Fairy Tree, 1870<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Arthur Hughes: Will o' the Wisp\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/willo_ahughes.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=600%2C392\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Hughes: Will o&#8217; the Wisp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Hume Nisbet, The Fairy Falls, 1908\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.victorianweb.org\/painting\/fairy\/nisbet1.jpg?resize=406%2C576\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hume Nisbet, The Fairy Falls, 1908<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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