The tradition
Fairy painting is a genre of painting and illustration featuring fairies and fairy tale settings, often with extreme attention to detail, seen as escapism for Victorians. The genre is most closely associated with Victorian painting in the United Kingdom and has experienced a contemporary revival, led with noted examples by Brian Froud and Alan Lee.¶
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fairy painting is Victorian painting genre and movement, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
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| Wikidata: fairy painting (Q2405999) | database | Wikidata |
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