REVISITING THE ARTS: VICTORIAN EDUCATIONAL VALENCES IN CONTEMPORARY ART TEACHING
REVISITING THE ARTS: VICTORIAN EDUCATIONAL VALENCES IN CONTEMPORARY ART TEACHING

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the way in which the Arts have earned their place in the English contemporary curriculum among other valuable programmes of study, knowing that by the beginning of the Victorian Age appreciation of beauty was outside the scope of schools. The foundation of schools of Art and the introduction of the academic teaching of the Arts took place during the Victorian Age on a larger scale due to an increasing interest in the aesthetic aspect. Young ladies were mainly educated at home and their education was focused on the arts and manners. A number of women writers like the Brontë sisters created stories in which young women were fond of music and drawing. Prince Albert had a leading role in the foundation of schools of Art, as well. Moreover, the Victoria and Albert Museum was opened in 1852 and it has become the world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing millions of works of art. Therefore, the English contemporary curriculum comprises a series of Art forms thanks to the Victorian initiative to set up educational institutions for the study of the Arts.

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