{"id":15763,"date":"2014-09-22T03:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15763"},"modified":"2014-09-22T03:21:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T02:21:22","slug":"steam-and-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/22\/steam-and-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam and smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cardiff Docks (1894) by Lionel Walden.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s a tendency to consider the art of the 19th century as being preoccupied with the rural, the mystical and the historic: all true in the case of the Pre-Raphaelites. But the effects of the Industrial Revolution attracted enough artists to create a sub-genre of painting that takes the miasmas of factories and the hellish glow of furnaces as its subject; Philip de Loutherbourg’s Coalbrookdale by Night<\/em><\/a> (1801) is one of the more well-known examples, not least for being a painting that shows the future emerging from a rural landscape in a truly infernal manner.<\/p>\n

Lionel Walden (1861\u20131933) was an American artist who was in Wales long enough to paint several scenes<\/a> of the Cardiff docks and the steelworks. I’d not seen this gorgeously atmospheric painting of the docks before but it captures the light and the ambience of a British autumn\/winter with the same fidelity as John Atkinson Grimshaw, an artist who made chilly mornings and smoky twilights his speciality. Walden’s other paintings<\/a> are a lot lighter, with more traditional views of docks, boats and fishermen. (Via Beautiful Century<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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The Steelworks, Cardiff at Night (1893\u201397) by Lionel Walden.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The art of John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836\u20131893<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cardiff Docks (1894) by Lionel Walden. There’s a tendency to consider the art of the 19th century as being preoccupied with the rural, the mystical and the historic: all true in the case of the Pre-Raphaelites. But the effects of the Industrial Revolution attracted enough artists to create a sub-genre of painting that takes the … Continue reading “Steam and smoke”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[3476,873,6473,6474],"class_list":["post-15763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","tag-beautiful-century","tag-john-atkinson-grimshaw","tag-lionel-walden","tag-philip-de-loutherbourg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-46f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763","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=15763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}