the idea of the group was to change art and reject what was considered mechanistic approach first used by mannerist artists who succeeded Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino and michaelangelo.
Main Members of the group
William Holman Hunt,
John Everett Millais,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The art produced was often described as 'assault of the eye' due to its shocking images. They tended to paint religious figures with unprecedented realism unlike most artists. The artists used bright colours to make the paintings stand out in exhibitions. A lot of themes they chose was considered quite daring at the time showing problematic subjects such as poverty, emigration, prostitution and the double standard of sexual morality in society.
Example of Pre-raphelite paintings
- Artist: John Everett Millais
- Period: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Location: Tate Gallery, Britain
- Dimensions: 76 cm x 1.12 m
- Created: 1851–1852
- Subject: Ophelia, Elizabeth Sidda
Inspired by Shakespeare's hamlet , John paints the scene in which Queen gertude and ophelias brother laertes are in conversation describing how ophelia fell into the river whist picking flowers and slowly drowning and singing
Hamlet, Act 1V, Scene V11
Laertes: Drowned! O, where?
Queen Gertrude: There is a willow grows askant the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
Therewith fantastic garlands did she make
Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead-men’s-fingers call them.
There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element. But long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
Therewith fantastic garlands did she make
Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead-men’s-fingers call them.
There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element. But long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
Laertes: Alas, then she is drowned?
Queen Gertrude: Drowned, drowned
List of pre-raphaelite artistshttp://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pre-raphaelite.html
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