Презентация на тему The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets,

and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of avant-garde painters
(associated

with the art critic John Ruskin).

In literature it describes the poets who had some connections with these artists and whose work shares some of the characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite art.

Rossetti, b. 1828
John Everett Millais, b. 1829
William Michael Rossetti,

b. 1829

Other members: James Collinson, Thomas Woolner, Fredric George Stephens

Raphael had produced technically perfect religious pictures, but with

little spiritual feeling.
On the contrary, they admired the art and painters before Raphael.

declarations:
to have genuine ideas to express
to study Nature

attentively, so as to know how to express them
to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parodying and learned by rote
most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues

Brotherhood wished to emphasise the personal responsibility of individual

artists to determine their own ideas and methods of depiction. Influenced by Romanticism, they thought that freedom and responsibility were inseparable.

details and religious subjects, which scandalized critics
Interest in studying

nature rather than following established rules of composition
Inspiration from medieval sources (King Arthur)
Bright colors
Protest against academic painting (e.g., that of Sir Joshua Reynolds), with its rules about contrast and form.

a fresh vision, a challenge to orthodoxies
Truth was not

a given fact but something relative to the individual mind
Aim to go back to a more genuine art, rooted in realism and truth to nature
Bright paintings on a white background
Attention to detail and color
Subjects from medieval tales, poetry, and religion

-Symbolic meaning associated with common objects or situations
-Feelings

of nostalgia for a dream-like Medioeval world

-Use of melodious language

am a poet (within the limit of my powers)

primarily and that it is my poetic tendencies that chiefly give value to my pictures: only painting being – what poetry is not – a livelihood – I have put my poetry chiefly in that form. On the other hand, the bread-and-cheese question has led a good deal of my painting being pot-boiling and no more – whereas my verse, being unprofitable, has remained (as much as I have found time for) unprostituted. (Lettera di D.G.Rossetti a T.G.Hake, 21 aprile 1870)

was born in 1828 and died in 1882.
He was

also an illustrator, painter and translator.
Rossetti’s personal life was closely linked to his work
He followed the Aesthetic movement. Aesthetics studies new ways of seeing and perceiving the world

to his work, especially his relationships with his models

and muses:

Fanny Cornforth

Elizabeth Siddal

Jane Morris

sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was

influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life

medieval Christendom

Combination of Anglican piety and Italian impetuosity

Attention to

detail

Sister arts of painting and poetry

Life»(1870-1881) is an evocation of «life representative, as associated

with aspiration and foreboding, or with ideal art and beauty».

couple falling asleep after sex. This was part of

Rossetti's sonnet sequence The House of Life, a complex series of poems tracing the physical and spiritual development of an intimate relationship.

a "moment's monument", implying that it sought to contain

the feelings of a fleeting moment, and to reflect upon their meaning. The House of Life was a series of interacting monuments to these moments — an elaborate whole made from a mosaic of intensely described fragments. This was Rossetti's most substantial literary achievement.