{"id":1011,"date":"2006-11-06T04:47:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T03:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2010-10-03T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T14:34:23","slug":"the-art-of-john-atkinson-grimshaw-1836-1893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/11\/06\/the-art-of-john-atkinson-grimshaw-1836-1893\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836\u20131893"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org\/Spirit-of-the-Night-large.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/grimshaw1.jpg\" alt=\"grimshaw1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Spirit of the Night (1879). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Few people recognise the name of John Atkinson Grimshaw today but anyone who&#8217;s bought a birthday or greeting card in Britain will have seen his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org\/Spirit-of-the-Night-large.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Spirit of the Night<\/em><\/a> fairy painting, one of a generic series he produced in the 1870s that remains very popular despite the painter&#8217;s obscurity. Grimshaw would probably be surprised by this, the fairies were a brief diversion (I like the camp Classicism of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org\/Endymion-on-Mount-Latmus-large.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Endymion on Mount Latmus<\/em><\/a>), his real enthusiasm was for depicting the gold and amber tints of an English autumn. When he wasn&#8217;t painting fallen leaves in quiet streets he was capturing the moonrise or a smoky Victorian twilight in pictures of such spectral delicacy they could easily be used as illustrations for stories by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Machen\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Machen<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">This site<\/a> devoted to the artist has many more, including the fairy paintings; perfect viewing for damp and gloomy evenings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org\/Autumn-Morning-large.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/grimshaw2.jpg\" alt=\"grimshaw2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Autumn Morning. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org\/A-Golden-Beam-large.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/grimshaw3.jpg\" alt=\"grimshaw3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A Golden Beam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/01\/karl-friedrich-schinkel\/\">The art of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1781\u20131841<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit of the Night (1879). Few people recognise the name of John Atkinson Grimshaw today but anyone who&#8217;s bought a birthday or greeting card in Britain will have seen his Spirit of the Night fairy painting, one of a generic series he produced in the 1870s that remains very popular despite the painter&#8217;s obscurity. Grimshaw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/11\/06\/the-art-of-john-atkinson-grimshaw-1836-1893\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836\u20131893&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21,44],"tags":[197,873,874],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-painting","tag-arthur-machen","tag-john-atkinson-grimshaw","tag-karl-friedrich-schinkel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}