The Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

The Who?

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood reacted against the Romantics and established conventions
  • draw from Italian artists before Raphael (and idealization of subject)
• brightly colored
• evenly lit
• appear flat
• precise representation of even most humble objects
• detailed brushwork
• incorporate magic and sybmolism
  • used middle ages, bible, classical mythology,
  • Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Keats works as subjects
• later developments
  • eroticized medievalism
  • moody

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Millais Ophelia 1851-1852
Whistler Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge 1877

VOCAB

Nazarene Brotherhood
Art for Art's Sake
Nocturne
Japonisme

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