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A young ‘matte painter’ and concept artist working in Barcelona recently commented on his created image ‘London during the Victorian era’, a digital image of London at night. Pau Minguell said, ‘My idea was to create a view of the old London during the night. I didn’t want to recreate the city to perfection (lots of buildings aren’t at the original location), I focused on capturing a good atmosphere and image composition’. He then says his painting was ‘inspired by the environments of the literature of Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde. And also by the fantastic matte paintings of Peter Ellenshaw for Mary Poppins’ (Minguell 2016: pauminguell.com). Here, Victorian literature is seen as producing or offering up ‘environments’ which can be reproduced in new ways and capable of persisting in newer popular medial forms.
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Thornton, S. (2016). Realism and its Revelations: City Perspectives in London and Paris. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_45
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