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Sunday 11 November 2012

Art: Pre - Raphaelites

Do you like art. Well there are different types: Surrealism, Impressionists, Pre - Raphaelites and many more. Well today we are going to look at the Pre - Raphaelites. 

Lets start then. Who are they? There names:

John Everet Millais
William Holman Hunt
Dante Gabriel Rosseti
Christina Rosseti
William Micheal Rosseti
William Morris
Simeon Solomon
Thomas Woolner
John Brett
Frederic George Stevens
Alexander Monro
Ford Madox Brown


Do you know why I am writing about these artists?
I am writing about them because in Tate Britain there is a exhibition about them which I really enjoyed when I went there.


I want to show you some of my favourite paintings I saw:

Chatterton by Henry Wallis who inspired them

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/romanticstudies/images/chattertonbywallis.jpg
Two gentlemen of Verona by William Holman Hunt
Ferdinand lured by Ariel by John Everet Millais
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Millais_ferdy.jpg/250px-Millais_ferdy.jpg

Twelfth Night by W. H. Deverell Who was also an inspiration
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Deverell_Walter_Howell_Twelfth_Night_Act_II_Scene_IV.jpg/316px-Deverell_Walter_Howell_Twelfth_Night_Act_II_Scene_IV.jpg
English Autumn afternoon by F.M. Brown
http://www.preraphaelites.org/Content/Repository/Media/Collection/1916-p25/preview_1916-p25.jpghttp://www.preraphaelites.org/Content/Repository/Media/Collection/1916-p25/preview_1916-p25.jpghttps://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmI_2r2YVGOpzsijHjQsORGj_Y4b1WHm0K0fT2uBI9D_Uk_BQmrCxqic2rNN26PUahmSCCuh8jecVcaKNXZ5i9I6dbINrr70GEVCshKDmXFP6a1Byo35_a3HR3b0F-k0vSbFPsz6oRRS0V/s1600/madox+brown+an+english+autumn+afternoon.jpg
The woodmans daughter by J.E. Millias
http://www.cineclubdecaen.com/peinture/peintres/millais/filledubucheron.jpg
May in Regents park by C.A. Collins
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht38Z5Fy3SCIs5DfZ8OAZ7IUGSwKlRWAL6RDciMoDZ9vxISMQ0rl3g0xBW2XdGltXqlmI-HBRUDZiCcxMbPYDz2OizaObSKblzdKZJDWA1ZC7uv1gHvav5mDmKGk29sJINxYBbX2oUleQ/s400/MayinRegentsPark_Collins.jpg
Val d'aosta by J. Brett
http://www.canvaz.com/b/Brett-John/The%20Val%20d%20Aosta.jpg
Pegwell bay, Kent by W. Dyce
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0w5JW_uyGnVxAoQPW-4V_NgPlNTYhBtu87cEJNmW97axJr1eYleDJpexOfeuVArZp9L9YNw4PdQ76JbqK4iJUwYHNngiQAdWdqUvA9gK0R3qCBS9ZrdGGoj9HvVc9DB0Ap5HYIrmna9k/s400/PegwellBay_Dyce.jpg
Ophelia by J.E. Millais
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/320px-John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
This painting above named Ophelia is probably the most well known
Pre-Raphaelite painting.






  I am not only writing about Pre-Raphaelite paintings, I will be writing about many more.