2. Art
Painting Architecture
Cinema Literature Theatre
3. The 19th century is in the first place Victorian architecture
(the name "Victorian" refers to the reign of Queen Victoria,
1837 –1901, during which period the styles known as
Victorian were used in construction. However, many
elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture
did not become popular until later in Victoria's reign. The
styles often included interpretations and eclectic revivals of
historic styles mixed with the introduction of middle east
and Asian influences. The dominant direction of this period
in the British Empire was neo-Gothic, entire neighborhoods
in this style have been preserved practically in all the former
British colonies. For British India also characteristic to Indo-
Saracenic Revival style (free combination of neo-Gothic
building with national elements, for example: orient).
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12. Established in the 1840s,
dominated English art in the
Realism is presented landscape painting. English second half of the 19th
artists is the general attempt to depict subjects as century. Its members —
they are considered to exist in third person William Holman Hunt; Dante
objective reality, without embellishment or Gabriel Rossetti; John
interpretation and "in accordance with secular, Everett Millais and others —
empirical rules, but at the same time artists have concentrated on religious,
tried to make pictures romantic nature, the literary, and genre works
charm of nature ,invisible charm. Representatives executed in a colorful and
of John Constable, Joseph Mallord William Turner minutely detailed almost
photographic style.
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14. •Joseph Mallord William Turner (
1775 – 1851) was an English
Romantic landscape painter, water-
colourist, and printmaker. Turner was
considered a controversial figure in
his day, but is now regarded as the
artist who elevated landscape
painting to an eminence rivalling
history painting. Although renowned
for his oil paintings, Turner is also
one of the greatest masters of British
watercolour landscape painting. He is
commonly known as "the painter of
light" and his work is regarded as a
Romantic preface to Impressionism.
21. He was the artist who illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
and Through the Looking-Glass
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24. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 –
9 June 1870) was an English writer and social
critic who is generally regarded as the greatest
novelist of the Victorian period and the creator
of some of the world's most memorable fictional
characters. During his lifetime Dickens's works
enjoyed unprecedented popularity and fame,
and by the twentieth century his literary genius
was fully recognized by critics and scholars. His
novels and short stories continue to enjoy an
enduring popularity among the general reading
public.
Notable works :The Pickwick Papers,
Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David
Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, A
Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations
25. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 –1834) was an
English poet, literary critic and philosopher who,
with his friend William Wordsworth, was a
founder of the Romantic Movement in England
and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 best known for his poems The Rime of the
– 1863) was an English novelist of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his
19th century. He was famous for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical
satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly
a panoramic portrait of English influential, and he helped introduce German
society. idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture.
26. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle ( 1859 –
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer,
1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After most noted for his stories about the
writing in different forms throughout the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally
1880s, he became one of London's most considered a milestone in the field of crime
popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today fiction, and for the adventures of Professor
he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose
and the circumstances of his imprisonment other works include science fiction stories,
which was followed by his early death. plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and
historical novels.
27. Origins and silent films)
The first moving picture was
shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince
in 1888 and the first moving
pictures developed on celluloid
film were made in Hyde Park,
London in 1889 by William
Friese Greene, a British
inventor, who patented the
process in 1890.
The first people to build and run a working 35 mm
camera in Britain were Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres.
They made the first British film Incident at Clovelly
Cottage in February 1895, shortly before falling out
over the camera's patent. Soon several British film
companies had opened to meet the demand for new
films, such as Mitchell and Kenyon in Blackburn.
Cinematograph Camera
28. Сharacteristics (changes and events) :
- At this time, popular classical works (Shakespeare and
classic English drama) and works of new genres (burletta and
melodrama)
- A change came in the late 19th century with the plays on
the London stage by the Irishmen George Bernard Shaw and
Oscar Wilde and the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, all of whom
influenced domestic English drama and vitalised it again.
- Carte built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint
works, and through the inventor of electric light Sir Joseph
Swan, the Savoy was the first theatre, and the first public
building in the world, to be lit entirely by electricity.
- The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was opened in
Shakespeare's birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon in 1879.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree founded an Academy of Dramatic
Art at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1904.
29. Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte brought
together librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer
Arthur Sullivan, and nurtured their
collaboration. Among Gilbert and Sullivan's
best known comic operas are H.M.S. Pinafore,
The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.
H.M.S. Pinafore The Mikado The Pirates of Penzance
The story takes place aboard Medieval Japan. The son of the
Emperor Mikado, Prince runs away The story concerns
the British ship H.M.S.
from the Palace, in order to avoid a Frederic, who, having
Pinafore. The captain's
marriage with Katicha, elderly completed his 21st year, is
daughter, Josephine, is in
«masculine» lady of the Imperial released from his
love with a lower-class
entourage. During his travels he apprenticeship to a band
sailor, Ralph Rackstraw,
meets beauty Yum-Yum. They fall in of tender-hearted pirates.
although her father intends
her to marry Sir Joseph love with each other, but before they
Porter, the First Lord of the can expect a lot of testing because
Admiralty… he is the son of the Emperor and she
peasant woman