LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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A return to neoclassical aesthetics
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Disassociating painting and poetry
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Lavish attention to the sensuous elements of life
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Rejecting English poetic tradition
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Detailed explanation-1: -The name Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood referred to the groups’ opposition to the Royal Academy’s promotion of the Renaissance master Raphael. They were also in revolt against the triviality of the immensely popular genre painting of time.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Art Characteristics include: vivid detail, symbolism and tight brushstrokes. The artists of the Pre-Raphaelitism eschewed the looser style influenced by Sir Joshua Reynolds and others in the Royal Academy. Instead, Pre-Raphaelite painting techniques created works that mimicked medieval art.
Detailed explanation-3: -The group sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. They rejected what they regarded as the mechanistic approach first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo.
Detailed explanation-4: -Painted at the beginning of the short-lived yet historic Pre-Raphaelite movement, John Everett Millais’ Ophelia is widely considered to be the ultimate-or at least the most recognizable-masterpiece of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.