ArtMagick is a virtual art gallery dedicated to the continual quest of seeking out obscure 19th century Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist artists and long-forgotten paintings and poems illustrating a "magic world of romance and pictured poetry."
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The Field of the Slain by Evelyn Pickering De MorganPainting of the Day Archive
The Fairytale Witch by Paula Modershon-BeckerPainting of the Day Archive
ArtMagick Edith Wharton's 1913 novel "The Custom of the Country" is being serialised on BBC Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pj463 Her former home in New England is currently being restored as a museum.
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The desktop wallpaper for January 2010 is now available for download. This month's picture is by the Swiss Art Nouveau artist Eugène Grasset (1841-1917), and is taken from his 'Les Mois' series. You can see the full set of 'Les Mois' at http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists
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ArtMagick is a virtual art gallery displaying paintings and poetry from art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries with an emphasis on displaying works of art by artists who have been forgotten or neglected in recent years.
ArtMagick Browse a selection of paintings that the art going public would have viewed one hundred years ago. The scans are taken from the Royal Academy catalogue, which illustrated the paintings in black and white. This album shows mythological and fantasy paintings which were first exhibited in 1910. If colour versions of the p...aintings are known they're copied below the original b/w engraving.
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Three Women and Three Wolves by Eugene Samuel GrassetPainting of the Day Archive
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Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Patience", a takeoff on the Pre-Raphaelite movement with its yearning for a return to simplicity and to nature, and on the aestheticism of Oscar Wilde. It was first performed in London in April 1881. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_(o
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A plot summary, told through pictures of past productions and music from the show. I hope this will introduce people to my favorite of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and lead them to explore more of Patience and the rest of the canon.
ArtMagick Louis Wain (1860-1939) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain --- For cat humour 21st century style distract yourself at icanhascheezburger.com (Lolcats)
Kaleidoscope Cats 2: Cat's Head with Paisley Pattern Background by Louis WainPainting of the Day Archive
Cathy Baker
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"... Another artist's masterpiece which was on the market for the first time was a 10ft canvas of the birth of Eve, a symbolist painting by the late-Victorian artist Solomon Joseph Solomon, which had been given to Ealing Borough Council by his widow in 1946. ... it was bought by the Australian collector John Schaeffer ..."
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Record prices at London's recent Victorian art auctions suggest that the sector can boast significant improvement at the end of a difficult year.
