Pre-Raphael Research Paper

Thor Mitchell
Art 102
Group paper
Today 's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Movement
In art the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement is much like disco, its not dead until the people are done enjoying it. The group founded by John Millais, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt first started in 1848 in Millais 's parents house. Not one of its founders could have dreamed the sensational art they were about to unveil to the world. The group itself was mainly comprised of poets and painters who wanted to bring back the freshness and conviction of early Italian paintings before the works of Raphael Sanzio da Urbino which artist of the time considered primitive. The four major doctrines of the group resemble what you would expect to find in a utopian debating committee. The doctrines while being simple also help you easily see their main goal with their work and their group. The Pre-Raphaelites also took their love of art to
the real world they took the canvas outside and engaged with nature to a unseen level. In fact their doctrines encouraged and required it
The four doctrines of the early Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
I. Have genuine ideas to express
II. Study nature attentively, so as to know how to express them(it)
III. Sympathies with what is direct and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parodying and learned by repetition
IV. Most important of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues

Each genre has it 's own style or technique, for the members of the Pre-Raphaelites their style was one of hyper realism, with bright hues, with mainly renaissance figures in the art.
The members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood thought that sometimes looking back is another way to move forward. People see paintings like music; there are particular pieces from an artist that make you want to see or hear more. This holds true even if the art in question is old, it can hold just as much value as something new. In the piece Isabella By John Millais there is another form of rebellion in which he has three people on the left side and eight people on the right. This might not seem big but it is, people of the time didn 't like asymmetrical or an unbalanced painting. The main argument was stemmed from the offset of the figures in the foreground, giving the viewer imbalanced sides. The Pre-Raphaelites thought that things like this were nonsense and trivial nature and life do not happen as they are depicted in most
art.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had to face off many times against adversely to their paintings many people at first were shocked by the styles and elements used in the paintings. The groups ideals and ideas did not stop; the group continued to shock the world of art bold putting their works for display through out England and many other countries in Europe. The group put in countless hours to "fight the power" of the styles and masters that were current, to the group they seemed lackluster. The group focused on keeping things tied to human emotion to find heartfelt and meaning in paintings and used this to make more paintings. The group also was a part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1860 's. This movement tied in closely to the style of the Pre-Raphaelites with their use of repetitive natural patterns and use of everyday materials and bright colors. Unfortunately the group lost some of its headway in the art community around World War I and it continued to decline till World War II. After World War II in main media comedy was on the rise, people wanted to laugh again and with that came in the 1960 's; the return of realism, and the revitalization of the Pre-Raphaelites in a mild sense. Modern art also shared many principles of the Pre-Raphaelites expression. Pre-Raphaelite movement is a very human way to immerse yourself in your work and in your surroundings. Working outside or even painting outside can create a feeling of freedom in the mind the Pre-Raphaelites purposely try to create in their work. In more recent developments of the Pre Raphaelites there were multiple movies Dante 's Inferno BBC in 1967 the plot follows Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal his model mainly a story of love and loss; which is usual for artists. 2009 Desperate Romantics another on Pre-Raphaelites this television show aired on 2009 and was focused on the group establishing their art. Even today many people try to imitate the Pre-Raphaelites there are even Neo-Pre-Raphaelites who use photography and models imitating paintings and making new photographs all together.
The Pre-Raphaelites have a profound sense of what it is to make art, they strive to an almost pure form. The connectivity of nature to painting that the group contains and holds is unlike what I have seen in other people let alone artists or groups. The men who started the Brotherhood knew something that many still seem to forget, that to seek beauty one must look intrinsically and extrinsically in nature. This means both in the soul and ideas of the individual are throughout nature. Their message is also seen on every painting they did bright colors, hyper realistic plants and greenery, the group was trying to show people how great the would can be if you look at it in the light. The groups very core is based more so on the soul or essence of what it is to be a human and express yourself in a real and true form.

Citations
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