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PRE RAPHAELITES

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 27, 2014
Exhausting the sense of the beautiful
The Aesthetic Movement, a loosely defined tendency in 19th-century European art, operated under the slogan of 'art of art's sake' and believed beauty was the end, not the means.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 12, 2014
The Pre-Raphaelites: Britain’s Romantic rule breakers
Some paintings will always be identified with the place where you first saw them. You may even feel surprised to see them somewhere else. This is how I felt when I visited the Mori Arts Center Gallery, one of Tokyo's high-rise art venues, to see "Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 29, 2014
'The Beautiful: Art for Art's Sake — The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900'
In reaction to the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840), the Pre-Raphaelites embarked on a second phase — the Aesthetic Movement headed by avant-garde artists who believed that beauty, rather than the sociopolitical, should be the objective of art. This led to the popularity of decorative art, the innovative use of the art and design for functional objects.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 22, 2014
'Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde'
In London, 1848, a group of young pioneering artists began to shake the mid-19th-century British art world by combining rebellion and revivalism with scientific precision and the imagination. They took inspiration from early Renaissance painting and willfully challenged artistic conventions, calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Led by John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the group began an artistic revolution that became Britain's first modern art movement and continued to inspire artists throughout the 20th century.

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