(Art Movement) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

After going through the list of art movements that exist, I found two that I liked very much.
Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Now because we were required to choose one that inspires us or attracts our attention the most, I've sat down and stared at the beautiful artworks by both movements and found Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to be simply beautiful.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is art movement founded in year 1849 and it exists because a group of students from the Royal Academy of Arts who felt that the teachings of the academy and rejected the accepted style of painting which idealized nature and beauty to the detriment (the state of being harmed or damaged) of truth. They were basically unhappy with what was being taught and exhibited in the Academy.

The Brotherhood consisted of William Holman Hunt, D.G. Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Micheal Rossetti, James Collinson, Thomas Woolner and F.G. Stephens. They hoped to re-vitalize paintings in Britain.

The Brotherhood found purity and honesty from the early Renaissance paintings. They drew on Shakespeare, Tennyson, Browning and Dante.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was inspired by Italian arts from the 14th and the 15th century.

Their four declarations was;

1. to have genuine ideas to express
2. to study nature attentively to know how to draw them
3. to sympathise with what is direct, serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parodying and learn by rote
4. most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues. 

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This is called the "Isabella." It was one of the Brotherhood's first famous painting. It was painted by Millais. They used really strong colours and used a white background instead of a coloured. The girl looks like she's floating in the water and for a painting from 1850s, the colours are very strong and the picture looks almost real. The girl is obviously from that era too, what with her dress and features.

A few of my favorite paintings from this movement are;

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 This is Atlas Turned to Stone by Edward Burne-Jones. I loved the colours and details in this picture.

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This one is called Lady Godiva by John Collier. When I look at this picture I really wonder what was going through the artist's mind. I felt it tried to show a woman's true and mighty beauty but at the same time showing a woman as a humble being despite being so beautiful.

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This picture is The Siren by John William Waterhouse. I cannot really tell is the person in the water is a male or a female. I think it's a man staring at the woman's naked beauty.

This art movement for me screams originality and boldness. They painted with their hearts and I felt every picture had a deep meaning and represented something they wanted to show the world. I also liked how they painted the people in the picture. I really takes me back to Shakespeare times and to Britain. The painting makes you want to be in the painting or right next to the artist, asking him why is he painting it that way.