Idyllic school
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The Idyllic school 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
Art movement
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years...
of British artists - both painters and illustrators - whose depictions of rural landscapes combined elements of social realism
Social realism
Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic...
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
Social realism
Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic...
movement in art
List of idyllist artists
- John William NorthJohn William NorthJohn William North, ARA, RWS was an English landscape painter and illustrator, a member of the so-called Idyllic school of artists.-Life:...
RWS ARA - Frederick WalkerFrederick Walker (painter)Frederick Walker was an English social realist painter and illustrator described by Sir John Everett Millais as "the greatest artist of the century".__NOEDITSECTION__-Early Life and training:...
RWS ARA, - George John PinwellGeorge John PinwellGeorge John Pinwell , was a British watercolour painter.He was born at Wycombe and received his art education at educated at St. Martin's Lane Academy and Heatherley's Academy...
RWS - Robert Walker MacbethRobert Walker MacbethRobert Walker Macbeth was a Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre...
- Arthur Boyd HoughtonArthur Boyd HoughtonArthur Boyd Houghton , who usually signed his name A. B. Houghton, was a British painter and illustrator.Born in Kotagiri, Madras, India on 13 March 1836 and died in London on 25 Nov 1875....
- Hubert Herkomer RA,
- Lionel SmytheLionel Percy SmytheLionel Percy Smythe, RA RWS RI ROI was an English artist, and etcher.-Life and work:Lionel Percy Smythe was the son of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford and Katherine Benham. He was born in London on 4 September 1839 and spent his early years in France, where his younger sister...
- Richard JefferiesRichard JefferiesJohn Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction...
(writer)
See also
- Helen AllinghamHelen Allingham__NOEDITSECTION__Helen Allingham was an English watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.-Biography:...
- George ClausenGeorge ClausenSir George Clausen RA , was an artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, dry point and occasionally lithographs. He was knighted in 1927.-Biography:...
- Alice Mary Havers
- George Hemming MasonGeorge Hemming MasonGeorge Hemming Mason was an English landscape painter of rural scenes, initially in Italy, then England itself...
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.