The Victorian art was originally focused on a realism-centric style which hearkened back to classic Greek and Roman spirit, through a series of influences which brought in the use of brighter colors and more emotional strokes. Then, the late Victorian paintings (1890-1901) have turned into mythology and fantasy; this was the time when adding sculptures of Gods and Goddesses became an obsession for the art lovers.<\/p>\n\n
The “Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle” painting embraces symbolism, decadence and all related phenomena which reached a peak in 1890s, also called the Mauve Decade and the Yellow Decade. According to Dimitri Joannid\u00e8s, the auction house appraiser: “with this impressive work, Ella M. Bedford builds a bridge between Symbolism and Art Nouveau, as a woman artist precursor”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1898 and at Earl’s Court in 1900, this amazing canvas has been paintedby Ella M. Bedford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n