Who were pre-raphaelites?

pre-raphaelites was a group of artists, poets and critics who admired and imitated the late medieval or proto-relay art during the late Victorian England. This type of art dates back to the discovery of artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo. The original and most famous members of the pre-raphaelites were John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. Pre-raphaelites sought a return to bright, rich colors and attention to details, as well as stress in spiritual reaction to art and the importance of observation of nature; All classic examples of late medieval art.

pre-raphaelit Brotherhood (PRB) was created in 1848 in the parent of John Millais in London. Hunt and Millais participated in the Royal Academy of Arts and previously belonged to the same sketching of the club, called Cyclographic Club. Rossetti met Hunt after seeing his image "Eva St. Agnes" based on the poem Keatsf the same name. The connection between poetry and art attracted Rossetti, he wouldl poet and painter. After Millais, Hunt and Rossetti created before Raphaelites, four more members joined by the end of the year: Rossetti's brother William Michael, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner.

pre-raphaelites organized their first painting exhibition in 1849. All artists signed their works with their name, followed by PRB. Between January to April 1850 they also published the literary magazine The Germ but was not very popular. The pre-raphaelites dissolved shortly after the exhibition of Millais' Christ from 1850 in the house of his parents caused the controversial reaction of viewers and critics, many of whom protested to the medieval depiction of the Holy Family. Charles Dickens was one of the most open critics of the image, while John Ruskin was one of the few who praised before Raphaelite Art.

fission inside pre-raphaelites also led to the end of the fraternity.The ideals of medieval and realism began to differ, while Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his followers outside the fraternity preferred the former and Hunt and Millais sought others, yet focusing on idealism and cleanliness in art. Rossetti's followers in this division included Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, who later founded the art and craft movement in design. Although the short-term, the pre-raphaelites had a significant influence on the world of art, acting as the forerunner of the symbolist movement and inspiring the later art movement.