Charles Darwin?

Question

What artistic movement did Darwin influence? And examples of how Darwins influences were felt in the arts.

Answer 1

Animal painting, cartoons, seascapes, landscape painting (John Constable, Millet, Barbizon school) and life drawing.

"The impact of Darwin's theories of evolution on the visual arts of nineteenth-century America has been considered primarily in the context of American landscape painting. Citing the year 1859, which marked the death of world-renowned naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, the London publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, and the first public exhibition in New York City of Frederic Church's monumental painting, The Heart of the Andes, Barbara Novak and Stephen J. Gould describe the links between Humboldt and Darwin and the landscape paintings of Church. Darwin's theories, however, also had a significant impact on the development of life drawing in the United States. William Rimmer's Art Anatomy, first published in 1877, represents the most comprehensive anatomy book issued in the United States at the time and provides new insight into the influence of Darwin's evolutionary theory on artistic practice."

"Life Drawing from Ape to Human: Charles Darwin's Theories of Evolution and William Rimmer's Art Anatomy", Elliott Bostwick Davis : http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring_03/articles/davi.shtml