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Evolution of Art - The Pre-Raphaelite Movement

Text 4: The Pre-Raphaelite Movement 
 
An important and influential style of Victorian art, Pre-Raphaelitism sprang from a new temper in English painting, reflecting the great moral and material changes of the age which mark the middle years of the 19th century.  
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of idealistic young artists who, in the year 1847, banded themselves together to resist what they considered to be degenerate tendencies in the art of their time. The brotherhood consisted of William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, F. G. Stephens, W. M. Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, and J. Collinson.  

  
What defines Pre-Raphaelite art? 

The Pre-Raphaelites believed that art should be as similar to the real world as possible. They thought that if you painted a park, you should show the park as you saw it. That meant you could not paint the grass blue, when you knew it was green. 

How do you identify Pre-Raphaelite art? 

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Art Characteristics include: vivid detail, symbolism and tight brushstrokes. The artists of the Pre-Raphaelitism deliberately rebelled against the looser style influenced by William Hogarth (1697-1764), Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) and others in the Royal Academy. Instead, Pre-Raphaelite painting techniques created works that mimicked medieval art. 

How did the Pre-Raphaelites end? 

By 1854, the Brotherhood created in 1848 had disbanded. The artists no longer signed their work with the Brotherhood's distinguishing “PBR” and went their separate ways (“Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”). Although short-lived, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's ideas and members had a lasting impact. 

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