From the course: Graphic Design History: The Arts and Crafts Movement
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The Pre-Raphaelites
From the course: Graphic Design History: The Arts and Crafts Movement
The Pre-Raphaelites
- In 1848, a group of seven young artists at London's Royal Academy of Arts rejected what they felt was an artificial and mannered approach to painting. They called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the name referring to their preference for late medieval and Renaissance art before the painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. It wasn't that the group had an unwarranted hatred of Raffaello, they disliked the mechanical and highly stylized poses of the subject matter of painting that succeeded him. Hence, Pre-Raphaelite. These artists, with founding members William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, adopted the idea of truth to nature to their work. They advocated a return to the simplicity, lack of sentimentality, and overly mannered style found in medieval art. Their goals were often vague and contradictory. This was to be expected from a movement made up of strong minded individuals who sought to modernize art by reviving the practices of the Middle…
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