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title: "Timeline photos "The Victorian artist Richard Dadd painted exquisite,…"
date: 2020-12-23
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
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# Timeline photos "The Victorian artist Richard Dadd painted exquisite,…

*December 23, 2020 · Facebook*

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\"The Victorian artist Richard Dadd painted exquisite, highly detailed canvases filled with fairies and other magical creatures. In his best-known work, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (ca. 1855--64), flowers, leaves, and stalks of grass unfurl across the canvas, giving way to a magical world of miniature figures in fanciful dresses and crowns. They gather around a brown-suited gentleman who's about to cleave an acorn in two with an ax.\
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Yet this central act of violence eerily corresponds to Dadd's earlier misdeeds: In 1843, in a bout of madness, he killed his father, then assaulted a tourist on a train on his escape. He spent the rest of his life in institutions; the asylum became his studio, where he produced most of his imaginative paintings.\"\
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