🍨 — Victorian Era Flashcards
What are the characteristics of the Victorian Era?
- Strong moral and religious beliefs, proper social conventions, and optimism.
- Ornate and extravagant
- Sentimentality
- Nostalgia
- Idealized beauty through images of children, maidens, puppies, and flowers
- Traditional values of home, religion, and patriotism
Who invenyed Lithography?
Aloys Senefelder
Victorian graphics utilized a printing technique called __ that unleashes a flood of colorful printed images.
Chromolithography
American chromolithography began in?
Boston
His main influence was through his widely studied 1856 book of large color plates “THE GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENTS”
Owen Jones
A major innovator of chromolithography in Boston. He was a masterly draftsman whose crayon-style images achieved a remarkable realism.
John H. Bufford
“Father of American Christmas Card”
Pioneering works in holiday graphics. He was a German immigrant who settled in Boston. He was a master printer and illustrator who built a chromolithography firm.
- Louis Prang
- L. Prang and Company
List down the prominent Book Illustrators during that era.
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- Walter Crane
- Randolph Caldecott
- Kate Greenaway
- Thomas Nast
- Howard Pyle
“Influential designer of children’s picture books”
He was greatly fluenced by the Japanese woodblock.
Walter Crane
His illustrations showed a love of the absurd exaggerated movement PERSONIFIED OBJECTS like plates and dishes, and overall humor, which became the prototype for animated films later on.
Randolph Caldecott
A poet and illustrator. She created a modest small world of childhood happiness; as a book designer, she sometimes pushed her graceful sense of page layout to innovative levels.
Kate Greenaway
“Father of the American Political Cartoon”
Thomas Nast
What are the popularized icons of Thomas Nast?
- Santa Claus
- The Democratic donkey
- Republican elephant
- Uncle Sam; and
- Golumbia, the symbolic temale figure who became the prototype for the Statue of Liberty.
He was commissioned to create the first tonal illustration where the black and gray portions of the image were converted to tiny black dots. Inspo sa Ghibli
Howard Pyle
