The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt.

The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach adopted by the Mannerist artists who followed Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on academic teaching of art. Hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite". In particular they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts. They called him 'Sir Sloshua', believing that his broad technique was a sloppy and formulaic form of academic Mannerism. In contrast they wanted to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art.

The Pre-Raphaelites have been considered the first avant-garde movement in art, though they have also been denied that status, because they continued to accept both the concepts of history painting and of 'mimesis', or imitation of nature, as central to the purpose of art. However, the Pre-Raphaelites undoubtedly defined themselves as a reform movement, created a distinct name for their form of art, and published a periodical, The Germ, to promote their ideas. Their debates were recorded in the "Pre-Raphaelite Journal".

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@TheYaoiReview And since they're identical, he looks really pretty too if you look close. Pre-Raphaelite-like. < /hopeless perv >< work >
tinkerbill (Tinkerbill) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:45:41 -0000
@TheYaoiReview And since they're identical, he looks really pretty too if you look close. Pre-Raphaelite-like. < /hopeless perv >< work >
I find myself, just now, tempted to make some new medieval garb. I'm thinking maybe a bliaut, though more pre-Raphaelite inspired in style.
Chastangela (Rena Nero) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:29:22 -0000
I find myself, just now, tempted to make some new medieval garb. I'm thinking maybe a bliaut, though more pre-Raphaelite inspired in style.
RT 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' a 'warmer-looking movie' due to Pre-Raphaelite color palette - http://tinyurl.com/ye7l6v4
ConnieAnnKirk (Connie Ann Kirk) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:34:39 -0000
RT 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' a 'warmer-looking movie' due to Pre-Raphaelite color palette - http://tinyurl.com/ye7l6v4
'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' a 'warmer-looking movie' due to Pre-Raphaelite color palette - http://tinyurl.com/ye7l6v4
ConnieAnnKirk (Connie Ann Kirk) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:23:09 -0000
'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' a 'warmer-looking movie' due to Pre-Raphaelite color palette - http://tinyurl.com/ye7l6v4
http://bit.ly/1LP98h V&A objects depicting Jane (Mrs. William) Morris including that famous pre-raphaelite job.
richbs (Rich Barrett-Small) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:03:29 -0000
http://bit.ly/1LP98h V&A objects depicting Jane (Mrs. William) Morris including that famous pre-raphaelite job.
@exitthelemming like a painting by an arboreally obsessed Pre-Raphaelite.
Cube68 (Neil McEwan) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:45:11 -0000
@exitthelemming like a painting by an arboreally obsessed Pre-Raphaelite.

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