Brit Lit. V
19th Century British Art Notes
J.M.W. (Joseph Mallord William)Turner (1775 - 1851):
"ut pictura poesis" (as is painting, so is poetry)
John Constable (1776 - 1837):
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900):
"look to nature"
Modern Painters (five volumes beginning 1834)
Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
war against competition and self-interest
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848):
art and literature (Keats, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dante, Tennyson)
"look to nature"
moral seriousness
revolt against ugliness of modern life and dress - nostalgia
The Germ
John Everett Millais (1829 - 96):
Christ In the House Of His Parents (1849-50)
Ophelia (1851)
The Order Of Release (1853)
Autumn Leaves (1856)
book illustration (Trollope)
Bubbles (1886)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ((1828 - 1882):
Ecce Ancilla Domine (1850)
Elizabeth Siddal
R. Buchanan: The Fleshly School Of Poetry (1871)
Rossetti: The Stealthy School Of Criticism (1872)
Proserpine (1874)
The Blessed Damozel (1871-8)
William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910):
Claudio and Isabella (1850)
Our English Coasts (1852)
The Light Of The World (1853-6)
The Awakening Conscience (1853-7)
Arthur Hughes - April Love (1856)
Henry Wallis - The Death of Chatterton (1856)
William Dyce - Pegwell Bay . . . October 5, 1858 (1859 - 60)
Ford Madox Brown - The Last Of England (1864 - 6)
Edward Burne-Jones - The Beguiling of Merlin (1874)
William Morris (1834 - 96):
Jane Burden
furniture and home decoration
socialism
Queen Guinevere (1858)
Aestheticism (1880s): "Art for art's sake"
Walter Pater (1839 - 94), Oscar Wilde, James MacNeil Whistler (1834 - 1903)