The Pre-Raphaelite movement and it’s art

The pre Raphaelite movement began in 1848 as an organisation of painters who called themselves Pre-Raphaelites . The occasion of the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood was a book of engravings which Holman Hunt and D.G. Rosetti saw at the house of Edward Millais , of certain Italian frescoes . As the name suggests , this brotherhood identified themselves artistically with the painters before Raphael , the early Florentines

Examples of art from the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood

They found in the work of these artists an individuality and sincerity alien to the art of Raphael’s successors . About this time Ruskin and his modern painters had spoken out against the academic traditions which kept young artists making copies of Raphael’s paintings .

Pre-Raphaelites put this protest into a practical form . It was a protest against the classical tradition and conventional art of the old masters , barring young students from expressing their own unique art styles .

However although the group focussed on art. It wasn’t the only thing they worked on , they also invited in writers and poets into their group . These writers and painters insisted that s painter should paint whatever they observed , regardless of the established formal rules of painting . In their insistence on the freedom from rules and requirements laid down by Raphael for painting ideal figures , the Pre-Raphaelites were essentially romantics .


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