This Presentation is about the Pre-Raphaelite Movement or Pre Raphelite Brotherhood. Here I talk about, 1) key ideas 2) Principles of the Raphealite Movement 3) Concept and Style 4) Key artiest 5) Quotations 6) Pre-Raphaelite's Picture

1. Pre-Raphaelite Movement/ Brotherhood

2.  Name : Dodiya Mehul M.
 Roll No : 23
 Enrolment No : 2069108420180011
 Class : M.A. Sem 2
 Year : 2017/19
 Submitted to : Smt. S. B. Gardi Department
of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.

3.  The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret
society of young artists and Writer,
founded in London in 1848. They
opposed to the Royal Academy’s
Promotion of the ideal as
exemplified in the work of
Raphael. They were also in revolt
against the triviality of immensely
popular genre painting of time.
 They were inspired by the theories
of John Ruskin, who urged artists
to “GO TO NATURE”, they believed
in an art of serious subjects
treated with maximum realism.
 Their Principal themes were
initially religious but they also used
subjects from literature and
poetry, particularly those dealing
with love and death. They also
explored modern social problems.

4.  The Pre-Raphaelites rejected not
only the British Royal Academy’s
preference for Victorian subjects
and styles, but also its teaching
methods.
 Pre-Raphaelites espoused
naturalism: the detailed study of
nature by the artist and fidelity to
its appearance, even when this
risked showing ugliness. it also
named a preference for natural
forms as the basis for patterns and
decoration that offered an antidote
to the industrial designs of the
machine age.
 As part of their reaction to the
negative impact of
industrialization, Pre-Raphaelites
turned to the medieval period as a
stylistic model and as an ideal for
the synthesis of art and life in the
applied arts.

5. 1. To have genuine ideas to express
2. To study nature attentively
3. To sympathies with What is direct and serious
and heartfelt in previous art.
4. To defy all conventions of art.
 The Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood was formed
by three Royal Academy students, D. G.
Rossetti, who was a gifted poet as well as a
painter, William Holman Hunt and John Everett
Millais. They were later joined by William
Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Thomas
Woolner and F. G. Stephens.

6. One of the earliest Pre-Raphaelite goals was to achieve
the highest degree of verisimitude in their depictions of
nature, as opposed to the idealization of their subjects
and landscapes.
John Millais and William Hunt, for example, spent
considerable period of time away from London in
countryside, carefully studying plants and flowers for
their painting, including Millais’s Famous Ophelia and
Hunt’s Our English Coasts.
This focus on an unvarnished, honest aesthetic created a
sense of realism to narrative scenes already familiar to
their audiences.

7.  The interest of the members of the Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood in late medieval and
early Renaissance art form Italy and northern
Europe was extended by Rossetti, Morris and
Bune Jone, who also delved into the legends
of medieval England.
 Their love of medieval craftsmanship was
partly inspired by the suggestion in John
Ruskin’s essay “The Nature of Gothic” that
the individual system, an argument that
significantly influenced William Morris’s
Utopian mission to create a world where Pre-
industrial values and methods were restored.

8.  Several Pre-Raphaelite artist
were prolific poets and
writers.
 Dane Rossetti frequently
wrote sonnets accompany his
paintings which he had
inscribed o the frame,
including to the famous lady
Lilith, a pairing completed
 Many Pre-Raphaelite artist
also took works of literature
as their subject, drawing
particularly on Robert
Browning , Alfred Lord
Tennyson and William
Shakespeare. Many other
poets were influence by Pre-
Raphaelism including W. B.
Yeats and Oscar Wilde.

9.  The Pre-Raphaelism is
most closely
associated with
Painting.
 The movement also
has a profaned effect
on the decorative art.
 William Morris, in
particular was at the
forefront of the
revolution in design
that eventually led to
the arts and Crafts
movement.

10.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 William Holman Hunt
 John Everett Millais
 William Morris
 Edward Burne Jone
 Julia Margaret Cameron

11. ‘The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God: to
him who,
Does not search it out, darkness, to him who does,
infinity’
~ John Ruskin
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be
useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
~William Morris
“Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite
movement. But while their faces are seen
everywhere – in Paintings, watercolors, Drawing –
Their Voices are never heard.”
~Jan Marsh

12.  Thus, to extol fleshliness
as the distinct and
supreme end of poetic
and pictorial art; to aver
that poetic expression is
greater than poetic
thought and by inference
that the body is greater
than the soul and sound
superior to sense and that
the poet, properly to
develop his poetic faculty,
must be an intellectual
hermaphrodite, to whom
the very facts of day and
night are lost in a whirl of
aesthetic terminology.
Isabella; or the pot of basil draw by Hunt