October 30, 2013

Art: Turner, The Slave ShipMusic: Emilie Autumn, “Shalott” (link)

TURN IN YOUR HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Art According to John Ruskin

“The teaching of Art… is the teaching of all things”

“The art of any country is the exponent of its social and political virtues”

Art According to John Ruskin

“the Beautiful as a gift

from God”

truth beauty

divinity

Art According to John Ruskin

Art Mechanical

Something behind the pretty picture…

Art According to John Ruskin

Ruskin’s real art theory?

Art is “the expression of spirits of great men” (Modern Painters III).

Art According to Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly will see its moral lesson.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

ARTHURIAN LEGENDTell me the story of King Arthur.

Arthurian Legend Background

Geoffrey of Monmouth Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) Arthur Merlin Guinevere Avalon

12th-14th Centuries

Centers more on the other characters: Lancelot, Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, Tristan, and Isolde

Relationship between Lancelot and Guenevere

15th Century

Le Morte d’ Arthur by Thomas Malory Romantic ideal of Arthur Most later works are based on Malory

17th-18th Centuries

Last printing of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in 1634

For two hundred years, used as an allegory

Tom Thumb

Early 19th Century

Medievalism, Romanticism, and the Gothic Revival

Code of ethics for 19th-century gentlemen shaped around chivalry

1816—Le Morte d'Arthur was reprinted for the first time since 1634

Enter Tennyson…

1832—”The Lady of Shalott” 1859—Idylls of the King

“THE LADY OF SHALOTT”

“The Lady of Shalott”Lines10-18

Willows whiten, aspens quiver,Little breezes dusk and shiverThrough the wave that runs foreverBy the island in the river

Flowing down to Camelot.Four gray walls, and four gray towers,Overlook a space of flowers,And the silent isle imbowers

The Lady of Shalott.

“The Lady of Shalott”Lines 64-72

But in her web she still delightsTo weave the mirror's magic sights,For often through the silent nightsA funeral, with plumes and lights

And music, went to Camelot:Or when the moon was overhead,Came two young lovers lately wed;"I am half-sick of shadows, " said

The Lady of Shalott.

“The Lady of Shalott”Lines 109-117

She left the web, she left the loom,She made three paces through the room,She saw the water-lily bloom,She saw the helmet and the plume,

She looked down to Camelot.Out flew the web and floated wide;The mirror cracked from side to side;"The curse is come upon me, " cried

The Lady of Shalott.

“The Lady of Shalott”Lines 163-171

Who is this? and what is here?And in the lighted palace nearDied the sound of royal cheer;And they crossed themselves for fear,

All the knights at Camelot:But Lancelot mused a little space;He said, "She has a lovely face;God in his mercy lend her grace,

The Lady of Shalott. "

Are you ready to put it all together?

Draw a book cover for “The Lady of Shalott”

Don’t worry if you are not an artist

Be creative!

Now…

Draw a book cover for “The Lady of Shalott” for a Victorian audience

Compare Your Two Book Covers

How are they the same?

How are they different?

Why?

Illustrations of “The Lady of Shalott”

Pre-Raphaelite artists drew from the literature to create their renditions

Took a great deal of artistic license Tennyson unsatisfied Ruskin: “Many of the plates are very noble

things, though not, it seems to me, illustrations of your poems. I believe, in fact, that good pictures never can be; they are always another poem, subordinate but wholly different from the poet's conception, and serve chiefly to show the reader how variously the same verses may affect various minds.”

William Holman Hunt’s The Lady of Shalott (1857)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Lady of Shalott (1857)

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal’s The Lady of Shalott at Her Loom (before 1862)

Gustave Doré’s The Body of Elaine on Its Way to King Arthur's Palace (1867)

Howard Pyle’s The Lady of Shalott Weaving (1881)

Howard Pyle’s The Lady of Shalott Floating Toward Camelot (1881)

John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott (1888)

Inez Warry’s The Lady of Shalott (1892)

Florence M. Rutland’s The Lady of Shalott (1896)

George Wooliscraft Rhead and Louis Rhead’s Elaine Worships Lancelot (1898)

John Byam Liston Shaw’s The Lady of Shalott (1898)

Sidney Harold Meteyard’s The Lady of Shalott (1913)

The Artist’s Conflict

How can the Lady of Shalott represent the

artist?

William Holman Hunt’s The Lady of Shalott (1857)

Sidney Harold Meteyard’s The Lady of Shalott (1913)

Inez Warry’s The Lady of Shalott (1892)

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal’s The Lady of Shalott at Her Loom (before 1862)

Comparison to The Band Perry’s “If I Die Young” song and video

link

Homework

Readings: Morris “How I Became a Socialist” (pp. 1522-1525)

Mill On Liberty (pp. 1095-1104)

EVALUATIONS