Idyllic school
The Idyllic school (also known as the Idyllists) was a 19th-century art movement of British artists—both painters and illustrators—whose depictions of rural landscapes combined elements of social realism and idealism. Van Gogh admiration for the group was shown in letters to his brother Theo. Nowadays the Idyllist school is seen as one of the earliest manifestation of the social realism movement in art[1][2][3][4]
List of idyllist artists
- John William North RWS ARA
- Frederick Walker RWS ARA
- George John Pinwell RWS
- Robert Walker Macbeth RWS RA
- Arthur Boyd Houghton
- Hubert von Herkomer RA
- Lionel Smythe
- Richard Jefferies (writer)
See also
References
- ↑ Terry W. Strieter. Nineteenth-century European art: a topical dictionary (Greenwood, 1999), p109.
- ↑ According to Oliver Tonks, idealism in art is an attempt "to realise visually something that, owing to nature's negligence, never existed, but might exist in a perfect world" (Scribner's Magazine, Oct 1912)
- ↑ R W Macbeth (Cambridge Book and Print Gallery).
- ↑ A fishmonger's shop by R W Macbeth.
Further reading
- Paul Goldman. Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians (Lund Humphries, 1996)
- Lee MacCormick Edwards. The Idyllists: Frederick Walker and His Circle (Lund Humphries, 2008)
- Scott Wilcox & Christopher Newall. Victorian landscape watercolors (Hudson Hills, 1992), p55.
External links
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