victorian art
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The Festival of Grime Collection #5
Another collection of pre-carnival floats. Notice how, alongside various insects, they also celebrated the pig. At risk of sounding condescending to our dear readers, it is no coincidence that they also chose a pig to represent their struggle for survival in an age when making it past the age of five was a miracle. At…
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The Festival of Grime Collection #4
We return to the festival which celebrates northern pride, grit and determination. This time we are archiving photographs of the carnival floats which took a huge amount of time to construct and involved numerous people in the communities coming together. These photographs were taken in and around the Lancashire towns circa 1880 several days before…
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #6
Today we are going to archive the next set of Mr Pugh’s archive which he called “Sinners” For obvious reasons. As is customary, we have also included several reference photographs. However, we don’t know if these influenced the paintings in this particular collection. We shall have more information on these paintings next time. TVUP
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The Siblings of Saint Rupert Collection (Occult Artwork Edition) #9
Today it’s business as usual. Since the last Siblings collection, we have only discovered a small but important piece of information on these paintings and their esoteric symbolism. Yet, given the time of year, we thought it would be a good opportunity to archive them. Plus we’re bored of Christmas already. We have combed over…
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Dada Before Dada in Victorian Soho, London Collection #2
In the last post we mentioned the Inhumanists Manifesto; a fascinating read for anyone interested in the avant-garde. One can’t help but notice the stark contrast between the tone of the manifesto and the perceived stuffiness of the Victorian era. As we can see from the art itself, profanity is scattered everywhere and used almost…
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Dada Before Dada in Victorian Soho, London Collection #1
We’re thoroughly ashamed to have taken so long to digitally archive this art movement. Our research shows that this unconventional collective was a precursor to Dadaism. Its name was Inhumanism with a manifesto to boot. This collective was also born in Soho, London. The same place would see a postwar boom in bohemian art, theatre…
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #5
This is the last Pugh collection for a short while. We have many more paintings to archive in the future which exemplify different phases of Pugh’s life including apocalyptic visions, self portraits and his final dissent into madness. Have a fantastic weekend and we’ll be back with more fascinating images soon. TVUP
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #4
Today we continue to archive the works of Mr Pugh; the relatively unknown old romanticist who produced hundreds of beautiful yet haunting paintings along with a huge bank of photographs for his own reference. During his lifetime, he was on the radar of art collectors and sellers. However, his reclusive nature put him at odds…
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #3
Death was something of a preoccupation for those struggling through the Victorian era. Death was everywhere and there was little defence against it. Not even all the tea in China could afford you some respite. Death, like today, doesn’t discriminate. As we have seen in this blog, the Victorians had a very strange relationship with…
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The Convent Collection #3
Apologies for not returning to this collection sooner which we had promised. While we don’t have any further information about the Abbess, we have still been researching this tragic convent almost obsessively. After further analysis we are positively sure that the Abbess infiltrated this once traditional and peaceful convent. Furthermore we believe that the person…
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