Fairy Painting after 1850
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Description: by Richard A. Schindler.
, Associate Professor of Art Allegheny College in fairy painting reappears in various guises in the work of John Anster Fitzgerald (1819-1906), John Simmons (1823-1876), Thomas Heatherley (exhib. 1858-87), and John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893). Fitzgerald created perhaps the most interesting variations on fairy themes with his small, brilliantly colored oil paintings. For example, his series of works on the conflict between the fairy populace and Cock Robin mingles humanoid fairies and imaginative Boschian grotesques with carefully rendered birds, flowers, and insects. Fitzgerald's fairies, dressed in elaborate finery, possess a child-like bemusement as they move with tremulous bravado through a lush, exotic floral world. Simmons, Heatherley, and Grimshaw present a more forthright eroticism in their depictions of the sylvan creatures. Their paintings usually focus on a single nude female figure, framed by a natural setting and occasionally surrounded by the fairy court. In some of these works, the inclusion of a toadstool adds a phallic detail to the erotic subtext. These works have a dreamy cast to them as the fairies go about their business, unmindful of their human observers.
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| Date | Creation Date: 2001-05-31T02:33:48Z Expiry Date: 2014-05-31T02:33:48Z |