4. PRE-RAPHAELITE
was a group of English painters, poets and critics,
founded in 1848 by
--William Holman Hunt
--John Everett Millais
--Dante Gabriel Rossetti
WH Hunt
DG Rossetti
5. PRE-RAPHAELITE
The three founders were joined by
--William Michael Rossetti
--James Collinson
--Frederic Georges Stephens
--Thomas Woolner
WM Rossetti,
unofficial organizer
and bibliographer
10. PRE-RAPHAELITE
To have genuine ideas to express;
To study nature attentively, so as to know how to
express them;
To sympathize with what is direct and serious and
heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is
conventional and self-parading and learned by rote;
And most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly
good pictures and statues.
FROM “THE GEM”
11. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Emulated the art of late
medieval and early Renaissance
Europe until the time of
Raphael.
Rafaello Sanziano de
Urbino
1483-1520
The Madonna of the
Meadow
Ca 1502
12. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Their main and immediate objective in art was to
reject the dramatic, artificial Mannerist painting
styles succeeding Raphael and Michelangelo
(hence the term "Pre-Raphaelite") .
14. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Characteristics:
--minute description of detail
--a luminous palette of bright colors that
recalls the tempera paint used by medieval
artists,
--sincerity, seriousness
--truth to nature
--and subject matter of a noble, religious, or
moralizing nature.
16. PRE-RAPHAELITE
The principles were deliberately non-
dogmatic, since the brotherhood wished to
emphasize the personal responsibility of
individual artists to determine their own ideas
and methods of depiction.
Strove to transmit a message of
artistic renewal and moral reform by
imbuing their art with seriousness,
sincerity, and truth to nature.
17. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Influenced by Romanticism, the
members thought freedom and
responsibility were inseparable.
Nevertheless, they were particularly
fascinated y Medieval culture,
believing it to possess a spiritual and
creative integrity that had been lost in
later eras.