VISUAL CULTURE

trends & styles chapter 0
19th century:
middle ages

or modern times?

19th century

1. A drastic change in topics
2. The hype of medieval 3. Already signs of a modern visual language

Industrial Revolution

 

Pieter Breughel the Elder -

'The Peasant Wedding' (1566-1569)

Gustave Courbet - ‘The Stonebreakers’ (1849, 170 x 240 cm – destroyed during World War II)

The Cure - 'A Forest' (1987)

Goth subculture

Bram Stoker, 'Dracula' (first edition: 1897)

Victorian Style

Inspiration:
medieval typefaces,

like Gothic typeface

Nazi propaganda, WW2

Victorian Style

2016 campaign

Victorian Style

Victorian Style

Jim Crow & Childish Gambino ('This is America')

Handelsbeurs (Fair trade building), Antwerp (1872) -

Neogothic architecture

Text

Arts & Crafts

Text

Louis Sullivan, Guaranty Building,
New York (1896) -
Functional architecture

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ‘Bal du Moulin de la Galette’, 1876 (Musée d’Orsay, 131 x 175 cm) - Impressionism