The Pre-Raphaelites

27/02/2014

The Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood (PRB) was founded in 1848 that consists a number of seven people, but originally they were three. The most eminent members were; John Everestt Millais, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The artists were determined to shake up the Victorian London.

John Everestt Millais

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

William Holman Hunt

 
In their paintings the Pre-Raphaelites used real people to produce there art for the viewers to understand their situation in the painting.

Engravings that the Pre-Raphaelites
looked for to inspire their drawings 

This is an example that the Pre-Raphaelites used to produce their paintings. One can find this type of work in the engravings that were produced before Raphael. Themes that were shown on the canvas of the Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood were about; Love, Death, Legends, Religion, and Morality.

A painting that Mallais painted is the Lorenzo and Isabelle. A painting that is giving us the sense of love, between a man and a woman, and even the sense of death from his brothers to kill Lorenzo. This was painted in a medieval look, but it is showing a protest against social expectations.

John Everestt Millais, Lorenzo and Isabel, oil on canvas,
103cm x 142.8cm, Walker art Gallary, Liverpool, 1849 

During the 19th Century woman were working as a prostitutes. In 1853, Holman Hunt began to paint the painting that he was influenced by matters that were contemporary issues. The Awaking Conscience is one of Holman Hunt's painting. Hunt is showing many things that represent something. One of  them is the glove that is in the floor. This is a representation that the woman can be abandoned  from the man that she will marry and work as a prostitute. At the same time Hunt painted another painting that is The Light of the Word. When combining these two wonderful painting one can see clearly the meaning that Hunt wanted to put trough his work is that everyone can be saved any one can hear the knock on the door.

      

William Holman Hunt, The Awaking Conscience,
oil on canvas, 76cm x 56cm, Tate Collection

 

William Holman Hunt, Light of the Word,
oil on canvas, 1853

      

Reference....
- Andrew Lloyd Webber 2011, 1/4 A passion For The Pre-Raphaelites. [video online] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm03Z09TGgA.[Accessed on Jul 22, 2013]