CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Georgian Architecture, Fairy Painting
27 Sep 2016
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Titania and bottom occupies an important place in the british painting since it gave rise to a typically british genre, generally referred to as fairy painting . Used his imagination to create a startling effect, but while in that painting the purpose was to amuse and entertain, it is to evoke powerful feelings in the viewer. Fuseli was introduced to shakespeare"s plays during his student days in z rich with the swiss scholar jacob bodmer. Midsummer night"s dream held a special appeal for him, in that it explores the realms of the supernatural. In the picture fuseli illustrates a moment from act iv scene 1, in which oberon, in order to punish her for her pride, casts a spell on queen titania, as a result of which she falls in love with. Bottom, whose head has been transformed into that of an ass. In the play she murmurs lovingly to the object of her affections,
