The Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites

 

The pre-raphaelites constituted the modern art movement. Some of thie pre-raphaelites members were:  John Everett Millais , William Holman hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ''Pre-raphaelite,'' means both literature and art and so it was a bit confusing as both movements were the opposite of each other.


These people were inspired by Italian art of the 14th and 15th Century.

 

 

 

The Academy's founding president was Sir Joshua Reynolds. The work of the Pre-raphaelites was intensely sharp, flattened forms and with a lack of shadows. Some of the artists were in a brotherhood, although the experienced didn't serve much to unite them. In the 1850's, the brotherhood dissolved but some of the artists still remained friends and worked together for the rest of their career.

 

The pre-raphaelites began to décor more their works and by so they started to be more interested in decorative arts. The movement ,''Arts and Crafts,'' unified the arts in the 1880's and took place in England.

 

 

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Lecture's notes

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The Pre-Raphaelites | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. The Pre-Raphaelites | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/praf/hd_praf.htm. [Accessed 20 May 2013].