{"id":7736,"date":"2017-11-20T07:36:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2017-11-16T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:45:32","slug":"richard-dadd-the-fairy-fellers-master-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/richard-dadd-the-fairy-fellers-master-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dadd &#8211; The Fairy Feller&#8217;s Master Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/29\/Richard_Dadd_-_The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" width=\"844\" height=\"1173\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Dadd\">Richard Dadd<\/a> was in a psychiatric institution when he painted the Fairy Fellers Master Stroke over the course of nine years.\u00a0 The painting is remarkable for the layering technique that lends the figures a type of bas relief.\u00a0 In 1865, after stopping work on, what he considered, the unfinished painting, he wrote a poem that accompanies it called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Elimination_of_a_Picture_%26_its_Subject%E2%80%94called_The_Fellers%27_Master_Stroke\">Elimination of a Picture &amp; its Subject &#8211; called The Fellers&#8217; Master Stroke<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The poem, and the painting really, give me the impression that there is a secret communicated within that is yet to be uncovered.\u00a0 Perhaps it does this to a lot of people, since it does hold a secret in <i><a title=\"The Witches of Chiswick\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Witches_of_Chiswick\">The Witches of Chiswick<\/a><\/i> by <a title=\"Robert Rankin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Rankin\">Robert Rankin<\/a> &#8211; one of many pieces of literature that refer to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Dadd was in a psychiatric institution when he painted the Fairy Fellers Master Stroke over the course of nine years.\u00a0 The painting is remarkable for the layering technique that lends the figures a type of bas relief.\u00a0 In 1865, after stopping work on, what he considered, the unfinished painting, he wrote a poem that&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/richard-dadd-the-fairy-fellers-master-stroke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richard Dadd &#8211; The Fairy Feller&#8217;s Master Stroke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8311,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/house-painting\/","url_meta":{"origin":7736,"position":0},"title":"House Painting","author":"leems","date":"June 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Before Painting After five years in the house, we finally got the outside repainted! 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